Account photo: where is it stored?
I've got to use my iChat account's (I want to put it in my User Account photo so it shows in the users list at Login) but I can't locate it. Anyone? When I click on it, the Recent Pictures dialog drops, but it is not included.
Thanks, people.
Hi Alex,
Most have been here since iChat 2 and have not taken a Mug shot when the Start Up Screen suggest that this might be what you want to use.
So our suggestions of Looking in the Recent Pics folder is our way of finding what we understand you to be asking.
To Broaden that further we would next ask you to remember what pic you chose originally if you changed from the Running Man if you have an AIM Name or the Blue Globe if a .mac account name.
This is what happens if you chose a new pic.
You click on the current pic to change it
It gives you the option to Edit Pic
From the next Pane you can Choose a new pic.
Doing so takes you by default to /Library/Application Support/Apple/iChat Icons but you can in fact navigate to anywhere on your Hard Drive(s) for a Pic
You then resize it and iChat Saves a Copy as a Jpeg 2000 pic of the bit you want and sticks that in Recent Pictures and puts it up as the current choice.
I realise that this is not what you are asking but give it as an explanation of what everyone else was answering, as it is their experience.
Having tested taking a Video Snap Shot by the above method I can only find a copy in Recent Pics
I have also tested setting up a New User and then iChat and do not get the option to create a Video Snap Shot at that time.
If I do Change the Pic in System Preferences > Accounts then it is stored it Recent Pics even before I start up iChat.
It is saved at the size I set and not the actual preview that is taken.
If this preview is stored somewhere I can not find it easily.
I realise this is a long way round to say I can not help but I am now as mystified as you are.
10:38 PM Monday; October 1, 2007
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