iChat Import Assistant hangs when it tries to convert an alias

[Thunderforge]

When using the iChat Import Assistant to import chat transcripts, it hangs if an alias is in the "iChats" folder. iChat Import Assistant will sit there doing nothing (it does not freeze the program though). Moreover, if the user tries to cancel the import, the Assistant will just sit there doing nothing. This appears to happen both with aliases to folders and to files.

[Thunderforge]

After a bit more researching, I discovered that the iChat Import Assistant will try to convert ANY type of file. For example, if there is a .txt file in the "iChats" folder, it will try to convert it (and will say it was successful, not sure what to make of that). It will even try to import a .app file (in which case it will try to import the package contents).

The simple workaround for all this is to have the iChat Import Assistant simply check to make sure the file it is trying to import ends with a .ichat extension, signaling that what it is trying to import is indeed an iChat transcript file and not something else.

[jas8522]

I assume you can reproduce this with the 1.2 AdiumBeta? As far as I know nothing was changed in the importer.

[evands]

Any Console output when this happens?

[Thunderforge]

Console Output, Adium 1.2

[Thunderforge]

Turns out there was Console output. I went ahead and uploaded the log. The error in the log report was written after the import process began, and no error was created when I clicked "Cancel Import." To make the log, I had one alias in the "iChats" folder and no other files. The same thing happens in both Adium 1.1.4 and Adium 1.2.

[evands]

So what sort of alias do you have in iChats, anyways? Is it an alias to a log file, or to another location which iChat was using and which you would expect to be imported by Adium?

[evands]

(In [22159]) Resolve aliases passed to BGICLogImportController, and catch exceptions thrown by the NSKeyedUnarchiver/NSUnarchiver when attempting to parse an iChat log and log them rather than crashing. Fixes #8729

[evands]

(In [22160]) Merged [22159]: Resolve aliases passed to BGICLogImportController, and catch exceptions thrown by the NSKeyedUnarchiver/NSUnarchiver when attempting to parse an iChat log and log them rather than crashing. Fixes #8729

[Thunderforge]

The alias I had in the iChats folder was actually to an older application I had for converting iChat transcripts to text (so I'd just take the transcript file I wanted to convert to text and drop it on the alias to convert it). I hadn't thought about aliases to other folders with chats in them, but I suppose somebody might try that. At any rate, you seem to have the problem fixed, so I applaud you for that.