Past for iChat
macOS / Productivité
Past for iChat is a little application to open and view old chat log files created by Apple's iChat application (.ichat and .chat files) on macOS Big Sur, Monterey and later. iChat was the predecessor of the new and improved Messages app.
Starting with macOS Big Sur the refreshed Messages application doesn't support opening old iChat chat log files anymore. Past for iChat keeps your history alive by allowing you to open those.
The application also features a simple Markdown export of the chat logs and a Quick Look plugin for previewing chat logs in Finder, Spotlight or other applications.
Note: This application is only useful for people with older iChat chat log files (usually older than 7 years). I.e. this app does neither open files created by Big Sur/Monterey itself, nor iPhone chat logs.
Quoi de neuf dans la dernière version ?
- File attachments show up as their own bubbles, drag them out to save, double-click to open, or preview them with Quick Look
- Opens many more damaged and partial archives: transcripts with corrupted framing, stray leading bytes, or references to long-gone classes are now recovered and clearly flagged instead of failing
- Windows remember their size and position per document
- Faster, more responsive exports (they no longer block the UI)
- Hardened HTML export and safer archive parsing
- localized in German, Spanish, and French
- new Icon
We would like to thank everyone for the bug reports and feedback that helped to improve the product. Thank you very much!
