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Send or Receive Files through iChat

You may want to send a picture or some other file to a Buddy in your list. This technique only works if your Buddy is also an iChat user. If he is an AOL user, you’ll have to send the file as an email attachment.

To send a file to another iChat Buddy on your list:

1.	Drag a file icon and drag it on top of a Buddy’s name in the Buddy List.
2.	A panel appears on your computer screen to show you the status of the file transfer.

On the recipient’s computer (assuming she is an iChat user, not an AOL user), an alert appears warning of an incoming file, as shown below.

1.	Click in the alert window (shown below, left) to open the “Incoming File Request” window (shown below, right) which identifies the file and ...