IChat icon overrides Gmail icon

I have seen other posts about this but no resolution.
My iChat icon continually resets the icon in my Gmail. If I set a new icon from my Gmail, it is quickly set back to the iChat icon. I could just set the icon I want from iChat, but it only accepts a smaller, lower quality icon. I tried to remove all the iChat icons, but I can't get rid of the last one. Is there a way to turn off this automatic update other than removing my Gmail account from iChat?

I am having a similar problem. I am using Safari as my default browser in BC Vista. I have URL shortcuts on my desktop for specific web sites. I changed the icons for those URL shortcuts, but after I reboot once or twice the custom icons are replaced with Internet Explorer icons. It would be greatly appreciated if someone could explain how to make the custom icons "stick."

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IChat icon& Mail

Hi,
i got problem....My Ichat icon doesn't show in Mail.I got gmail account and i have also checked show online buddy status on viewing in Mail.I don't know what else should i do...
Please help me.
Thanks,
Dasa

Hi,
I have tested with the one Buddy I have an Email for and is on-line in iChat.
They are green (or red) in my Address Book depending on their Status in iChat.
But they are not so marked in Mail either using an old email or Creating a new email.
If I email them, their receipt is marked with the appropriate colour of my Status.
If they create a new email to an Email address for me in their Address Book the Header is marked as well.
However the same is not true of my receipt of any email from them, which I do have in my Address book.
Nor does a new email show a coloured Blob if I try to email them with one known to the Address Book.
At present I believe this to be an issue between the Address Book and Mail and for that I will have to go elsewhere and ask myself as I have not had issues with those before and would not want to mess things up.
9:38 PM Thursday; August 20, 2009
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My iChat icon will not open when I click on it.... what should I do?

I've tried clicking the iChat icon on my Doc many times, and on my top toolbar on the top of the screen, it says iChat, as if the program is open.... yet there are no windows open....... BIT OF A PICKLE.

Hi,
You can get to this state two ways.
1) On starting iChat the first time you click through the Start Up Screen with entering any Screen Name or ID info and not turning on the Bonjour Option.
2) Having set up an Screen Name in ichat (Or just Enabled the Bonjour option) you have then used the red button which has closed the Window but not quit iChat
You have then Quit iChat. iChat remembers where the Buddy List windows were when you Quit even if they are "Hidden"
Lets start with 2)
In the iChat Menu go to the accounts sub item
Is anything listed here ? (Bonjour at least should be)
Un-ticked items are Not Logged in and so Buddy Lists will not show.
Selecting an Item will toggle the Tick and Log the Account In (Selecting it again removes the tick and logs out)
If an Item is Tick but there is no Window then it is "Hidden"
Now go to the Window Menu.
Any Logged in accounts also get listed here with Keystrokes next to them (CMD/Apple key plus a number)
Either select the item or use the Keystrokes
Clicking and Holding the DOCK icon should also give you an option to reveal any Logged in Buddy List.
Re 1)
If you did not set up an account you should be able to go to the iChat Menu > Preferences > Accounts
The Bonjour item is always there in the list and can be Enabled (Use this account) on the right (Account Info tab)
The Bonjour Buddy List will only show Buddies if other iChat Users are on your LAN with iChat On and Bonjour Enabled.
You cannot add Buddies to this list (It will display their Name as they appear in their Address Book on their Computer
At the bottom of the list are two buttons. A Plus one to Add An Account/Screen name and a Minus one to Delete Accounts (You cannot delete the Bonjour one)
Clicking the add Button opens an new pane
The top item of this is a drop down to select either AIM, @Mac.com or MobileMe (All log in to AIM) and below the line the Jabber options of a Jabber server or GoogleTalk
Selecting either MobileMe or @mad.com and then pressing the "Get an iChat Account" button will take you to a web page (In Browser) to Register for an @mac.com name
(In iChat 5 the AIM option points to the previous AIM page for Registration but this has moved)
With Jabber or Google Talk you will have to have a Name first
You can of course get your AIM based name first and just fill in the details.
Once you have a name and filled it in with a password you can click Done.
NOTES
Registering an @mac.com name is applying for an Apple ID (Automatic)
The Password Strength indicator should be ignored as the AIM Servers can only cope with password up to 16 characters long.
Part of the process means you have to list an existing Email address.
This cannot be one already associated with an Apple ID you may already have (Such as using an ISP Email to register to post in Communities)
In Setting up an Account/Screen name in iChat you don't have to enter the password
If you do not iChat will ask you each time.
This at least stops people who get access to your computer logging in to your details.
These iChat 4 How Tos offer a longer explanation (Use the lower menu under the iChat 4 How to title: Work left to right)
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10:05 PM Thursday; June 23, 2011
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Problem with Connection Itunes writes "Ichat Icons"

Why i connect my Iphone 5 to ITunes, and the ITunes can not connect the Phone and writes" Itunes cannot sync photos to the iPhone because you do not have write access to the folder" Ichat Icons"??

lots of people having the exact same problem with the new update.
Apple does not seem to care -- there is no fix at this time.
Best thing to do it keep calling them.

Why do I have a question mark on top of Ichat Icon

why do I have a question mark on top of Ichat Icon ?

Hi,
If this is in the DOCK it because that icon (and the links it has) have lost contact with the original app.
Open th Applications folder.
Drag iChat to the DOCK (Creates the icon and links)
If his displays properly drag the old one Off the DOCK and let go (Puff of smoke animation)
IF it is in the Applications folder that you see this then iChat is most probably broken in some way and you will have to reinstall it (I will needs to know which version for a more complete answer on that)
9:52 PM Wednesday; September 7, 2011
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When pressing the ichat icon on my dock it wont open my ichat

my ichat wont open when clicking the ichat icon.

Hi,
For that to work the App has to have opened in the first place.
I did consider that the poster meant the account/Buddy list was not on view (but that iChat was in the menu bar) but it seemed safer to try launching iChat from the applications folder.
7:45 PM Sunday; November 13, 2011
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I click on iChat icon and nothing happens

I first got my Mac and clicked on the iChat icon and I didn't set up any accounts.
I clicked on it again the next day and nothing pops up. I don't know how to set up any accounts because no window pops up or anything.
I don't know how to work iChat because I click on it and nothing happens. What do I do?

Hi,
Welcome to the  Discussions
To Expand on Defcom's answer
It is possible when starting ichat for the First time to Click through the Start Up Screens and not enter any info. (no Accounts).
When you restart iChat it has no Accounts and therefore no Buddy Lists to Display and "Nothing" appears to be the result.
However the Menu Bar should show (until you click the Screen or another icon in the Dock) iChat in the Menu Bar.
If this is the case, click on the word iChat (Menu will drop)
Chose Preferences then Accounts.
You can then set up Accounts (Screen Names by pressing the + button at the bottom of the Left hand side (which should always List Bonjour whether you use it or not).
See this section
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10:20 PM Saturday; January 1, 2011
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IPhoto moved my iChat icons

When I first ran iPhoto (not knowing it was going to want exclusive control of my photos), it imported my iChat icons into the photo library, and I believe it removed them from the original location as I cannot find them outside of the iPhoto library (I did browse inside the iChat package and did a Finder search for the name of one of the GIFs).
Now, iPhoto is not working for me at all and I am planning to manually copy the masters folder to a location outside of iPhoto Library (I prefer Picasa anyway). As part of this process, I discovered the iChat icon issue and would like to know where in the folder tree I need to restore all of these icons to. Do they all go in the same folders, are there subfolders, or is iChat even picky about the syntax of the folder tree (I'm thinking not since it's apparently worked fine in the interim except for logging me out prematurely at times).

HI,
Some (called iChat Icons) should be here
Uploaded with Skitch!
If you click the current pic for your Own Buddy Pic is will show "Recents"
These are here
Uploaded with Skitch!
Messages in Mountain Lion Can also see the User Account pics and I am not sure if iChat 6 can.
But they are here:-
Uploaded with Skitch!
Most of these places are not in places Spotlight Searches.
There are also the pics from your Buddies.
They are in Hard Drive/Users/(Your Account)/Library/Caches/com.apple.ichat/Pictures
10:30 PM Friday; August 31, 2012
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IChat Icon is now a "?" icon!

aloha!
can someone please help me understand why my iChat icon (which normally lives on my dock) is now a question mark? i cannot find the iChat icon in my Applications menu anymore, either.
i checked the "TRASH" and it's not in there!
i normally use this as a tool for my job as a freelance producer/publicist and i'm out of touch!
what should i do?
a friend suggested running "pacifist" while having my install dvd in my computer, but disk one is missing since a recent move. not sure where it went.
any suggestions? is it possible to get a replacement install disk?
thanks!

Hi sarinmaul,
Welcome To The Apple Discussion Pages.
This means the icon in the Dock has lost contact with th e Actual application.
Go to the Applications folder and launch IChat form there.
IF it works Drag the ? off the DOck and let go.
Drag the current app to the DOCK to renew the icon and link.
You should not need to Reinstall the app unless there is another proble.
11:09 PM Sunday; March 19, 2006

What does this mean? iTunes cannot sync photos to the iPhone because you do not have write access to the folder "iChat Icons"

Can anyone help me please? My iphone originally was linked to my PC. I downloaded over 3,000 pictures from my PC to my iphone. Since then my PC broke and now I have a macbook pro and the macbook doesn't recognize all the pictures from my pc. I get the following message.
-iTunes cannot sync photos to the iPhone "Daniel's iPhone" because you do not have write access to the folder "iChat Icons".

Hi,
I picked up on this Post as I was searching for "iChat" in non iChat places.
A Mac will contain a Folder for "iChat Icons"
It is kept in Hard Drive/System/Library/Application Support/iChat icons
There are about 9 sub folders here including Planets, Guitars, Feng Shui and so on.
They are normally accessed in iChat to be your Own Buddy pic.
They way you have phrased your posts suggests you have a folder on your phone called "iChat icons" which may have been created by the PC.
For people who know more about iTunes than I do to help will need to know where this Folder is exactly.
10:43 PM Saturday; June 30, 2012
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Why doesn't the ichat icon show up only shows messages and will not show buddies

Why doesn't the ichat icon show up? It will only show the messag area. It will not show the people you have as friends to leave offline messages

IChat icons in iPhoto library

Somehow I have iChat icons in my iPhoto library. How do I get rid of them? I was importing a picture off my camera and I must have hit a wrong key or something.

Move them to the iPhoto trash and empty it.
Regards
TD

The iChat icon won't stop bouncing?!?!?!?

When I had Snow Leopard, I went to iChat preferences and set it so that the iChat icon wouldn't bounce when i got a message. That didn't work.
When I upgraded to Lion yesterday, I went to iChat preferences and set it so that the icon wouldn't bounce, but it still didn't work.
*** is wrong with this icon-bouncing ?????

You don't need to worry about the system disk icon appearing on the desktop in order to boot from the CD. Just insert the CD, and then restart your Mac while holding down the "C" key until you see the splash screen, then you can release the "C" key and let if finish booting.
Once you have done this you can run the disk utility as per the instructions in the FAQ I referenced.
One other thing that I can think of could be causing this problem. It could be that your desktop preference file is corrupted. What you could try is to navigate to your home/library/preferences folder and look for a file called com.apple.desktop.plist. Take that file and move it out of the library/preferences folder to some other location and then restart your computer and see if CD's will show on the desktop again.
If you do this you will have to reset all of the desktop preferences again. If it does not work you can move the file that you took out back in to the preferences folder and just have it replace the newer file.

"iChat Icons" folder

I apologize if this is a silly question.
I installed Mac OS X Leopard. I accidentally moved the +iChat Icons+ folder to the trash - it is not deleted.
There's an +iChat Icons alias+ in the Pictures folder. When I click it, the original +iChat Icons+ folder doesn't show up because I had it in the trash. Well I don't want to "fix alias," I just want to move the folder (from trash) back to its original spot.
The problem I have is I don't know what folder iChat Icons was originally at?
Can somebody tell me the destination like folder/folder/folder?
Thanks in advance!

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MacintoshHD/Library/application support/Apple

Remove iChat icons from iPhoto library

How to get rid of iChat icons in iPhoto?

Well we can approach this with logic:
There's something in there you want out.
Option 1: delete them.
Option 2: Restore from your back up to a point before these were imported.
So, delete them, or replace the Library with an earlier version.

IChat icon overrides Gmail icon

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