Bonjour—Share Files Locally

Once your Mac is on a network of computers running OS X, version 10.2 or later, you can send files back and forth to everyone through Bonjour, which is part of iChat (in OS X versions earlier than Tiger, 10.4, it's called Rendezvous, not Bonjour). The iChat icon should be in your Dock; if not, it's in your Applications folder.

If you didn't turn on Bonjour the first time you opened iChat, you can do it in the iChat preferences, in the Accounts pane:

But you can also turn it on with this shortcut:

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Open iChat.
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From the Window menu, choose “Bonjour” (or press Command 2). If you're not already logged in, it will ...

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