Having deleted my older version of Skype for Mac today as I replaced it while downloading, I now am unable to use the service at all. After several attempts and rebooting computer, I can't get the 2.6 version to open on my Mas OS 10.3.9 system on my iBook.

Any answers to these questions would be much appreciated.

1. Is there a way to load an older version so I can use my account again? I had 2.0 before which worked fine!

2. To get Skype 2.6 to work, I see some suggestions about deleting stuff in 'preferences' such as font etc.. Where can I find these? I cannot open Skype so I assume these are preferences elsewhere. Please talk me through this if you know how.

Cheers,

Hel the Skypeless

try http://oldapps.com/skype.htm there are many old versions, the most recent that works for you would probably be the best to use

thanks ever so for getting back so quick. i've clicked on the link and it gets me to that page so i'll try and download that in a minute.

think you just floated a little bit higher above hel and hell!

cheers,

hel

you're welcome. i just happened to be online around the time you posted.



hope it goes well. good luck

in case anyone else has this problem, i just got some email advice from the skype support team. the thing that they suggested that seemed to help was updating my quicktime to the latest version - 7.0. i had 6.something.

when the computer restarted after downloading qt, suddenly skype came alive and now it is working...

thank you for sharing that solution. much appreciated and will pass it on to others should the need arise.

This link (http://mac.oldapps.com/skype.php) gets you directly to the old Mac versions. The above link actually leads to the old Windoze versions.