Click to expand.GMoney, thanks for your reply. All: I found a way to get Facetime to work on my 10.6 Snow Leopard. Don't know if it'll work for 10.5.
Device compatibility with FaceTime. Before you begin to troubleshoot FaceTime problems, ensure your device is able to use the FaceTime app. Minimum requirements for the device is the Mac OS X Snow Leopard v10.6.6 operating system or later. IPod touch must be 4th generation or later.
Leave it there to automatically save it to the destination you’ve chosen. How to put new operating system for mac mac. Take a screenshot and a thumbnail of it animates to the corner of the screen. An easy-to-use menu includes new screen-recording tools and options for setting a start timer, showing the cursor, and even choosing where you’d like to save your screenshots.
But hey, people can give it a try: Google is your best friend. There's a twitter from 0wnDev, who hacked the facetimeapp for mac. He zipped it: He actually made it to work with 10.6.2, but I changed the info.plist from 10.6.2 to 10.6. Saved it (be sure to really save it), restart, and voila facetime works for 10.6.
I imagine that if in the info.plist you change everything from 10.6.2 to 10.5, save it, reboot, the facetimeapp might work. Good luck in trying. Click to expand.I've been going back and forth on this hack and I'm starting to think that this app calls on SL specific API's that just aren't present in vanilla L. I've tried looking at Sys logs during the installation to see if the app installs anything special but to no avail.
I do think apple inserts a 'com.FaceTime.plist' in the Library folder which would explain why the app fails to launch. Ill keep tackling the issue and see what I'm able to turn up. But to all the people that are saying 'just upgrade', please bear in mind that that might not be an option for some which is exactly why we're trying to hack the app. Click to expand.If you want to install it without the security update, Google for Flat Package Editor which is a built in tool if you have Xcode installed.
Once you've done that, open the FaceTime mpkg in flat package editor, drop the Distribution file onto your desktop, edit it in TextEdit (I used Terminal > changed directory to the desktop > vi 'Distribution'). Look for the lines that check for the security patch number and change to whatever is listed as the current security framework in Sys Prefs. Save everything, replace the distribution file in the facetime mpkg and save. Now run the installer. It should work. -=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=_=- To everyone else looking for a 10.5 solution: I've tried a bunch of different things, ranging from adding the appropriate files in System/Library/CoreServices and Library/Launchagents, editing the distribution file to remove the OSX checks and exporting the app file to desktop. I really did a lot of work on this and I'm pretty certain the problems lie with missing frameworks that are native to SL and not plain old Leopard.
Example: adding the imagents.plist file into Library/Launchagents caused Leopard to constantly report that imagent could not be launched. Maybe I missed something there but wasn't sure where else to look. If anyone would like to disprove this theory, please do so and kindly share your findings.
If anything, I've had fun hacking this little pet project and it's really taught me a lot about the OSX and FreeBSD platforms! Has anyone tried changing their OS 10.5.8 info so that it reads 10.6.4, then set the plist file to 10.5.8, and then, after installing it, seeing if it runs? If it runs, you could revert your computer info back to 10.5.8. Or upgrade for $30. I want my sister to be able to FaceTime from her MacBook with me on my iPhone. Looks like I think it would be cooler than she does.
She's not interested in forking out $30 so that she can see me smiling at her. Maybe I'll buy it for her for her birthday. In September. Rescue kit for mac os x iso.