Bill Ryan
31st July 2017, 21:21
Hi, Folks:
Some of you reading this will be aware of many recent problems with Skype. For Mac users, with older systems, Skype has stopped being supported altogether. That means that Skype will NOT work on any Mac OS older than OS 10.9.
:facepalm:
But, if this has affected you, here's the fix.
Do this if you're running OS 10.6 - 10.8, as I am.
1) Go find Skype.app in your Applications folder.
2) Right-click on that (or ctrl-click, on a keyboard), and a menu of options appears.
3) Choose Show Package Contents.
4) In that folder, there's another folder called Contents.
5) In Contents, there's a little file called info.plist.
You should now be looking at this:
http://projectavalon.net/Skype_window.gif
6) Now, download this file: (It's been edited — by myself, don't worry! — to do what the old one refuses to do any more.)
http://projectavalon.net/Info.plist.zip
7) Double-click on that to unzip it. It's now simply called Info.plist.
8) Drag that to REPLACE the old Info.plist. You should get a little window that asks you
http://projectavalon.net/Replace.gif
9) Click Replace.
That's it. Open your old copy of Skype, and it'll now work again just fine.
For non-geeks, what we've kind of done here is tricked your old Skype into thinking it's a newer version.
:)
Some of you reading this will be aware of many recent problems with Skype. For Mac users, with older systems, Skype has stopped being supported altogether. That means that Skype will NOT work on any Mac OS older than OS 10.9.
:facepalm:
But, if this has affected you, here's the fix.
Do this if you're running OS 10.6 - 10.8, as I am.
1) Go find Skype.app in your Applications folder.
2) Right-click on that (or ctrl-click, on a keyboard), and a menu of options appears.
3) Choose Show Package Contents.
4) In that folder, there's another folder called Contents.
5) In Contents, there's a little file called info.plist.
You should now be looking at this:
http://projectavalon.net/Skype_window.gif
6) Now, download this file: (It's been edited — by myself, don't worry! — to do what the old one refuses to do any more.)
http://projectavalon.net/Info.plist.zip
7) Double-click on that to unzip it. It's now simply called Info.plist.
8) Drag that to REPLACE the old Info.plist. You should get a little window that asks you
http://projectavalon.net/Replace.gif
9) Click Replace.
That's it. Open your old copy of Skype, and it'll now work again just fine.
For non-geeks, what we've kind of done here is tricked your old Skype into thinking it's a newer version.
:)