AOL Desktop for Mac 1.7 Beta is now available
Posted Sep 13th 2010 6:45PM by Larry Aasen
Filed under: AOL Desktop for Mac
We have been making significant changes in AOL Desktop for Mac to the way your mail is handled internally. As a result of these changes, we channeled the work being done for the AOL Desktop for Mac 1.6 beta into a new effort that fully supports this new mail architecture.
We are pleased to announce that AOL Desktop for Mac 1.7 beta is here! We want your help as we rely on you, our member and tester, to provide feedback that can be used to improve the quality of our software.
What you need to know before you get started:
- Downloading AOL Desktop for Mac 1.7 will indicate you are participating in this test and that you want to be an early Mac adopter for the new mail architecture.
- Previous releases of AOL Desktop for Mac (including 1.6) will not support the new mail architecture. You will not be able to use 1.6 or earlier versions to access your mail and there is no migrating back.
- If you store mail locally ("On My Mac") in AOL Desktop for Mac, please follow these instructions to move your mail to host storage.
In the event you encounter any issues using the new Desktop beta, including any issues affecting your mail experience, please report them. We ask that that you use webmail as your default email client until all issues are resolved.
Do you want to participate without affecting your current account? You can, but you must follow these instructions carefully.
As always, thank you for your support!
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Welcome to the Mac@AOL Blog. My name is Lee Givens and I'm the Product Lead for the Mac and iPhone products at AOL. You can find the latest information on AOL's software development on the Mac and any cool happenings at AOL. The purpose of the blog is to create a feedback loop so we can hear from our loyal AOL Mac users. Managing a blog is a lot of work, so I enlisted support from the whole team...the Mac team is made up of dedicated Macintosh developers, QA engineers and Product folks.
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Reader Comments (Page 2 of 2)
21. I am wondering if this will solve my problem or if you have a better solution for now.
I have a MacbookPro (intel) 10.6.4 and Imac (Intel) 10.6.4. Aol Desktop for Mac 1.6 works fine on the MacBookpro, however, when we bought the Imac, we used a firewire cable to transfer all docs/apps/etc. from the old Ibook (G4) 10.4 to the new Imac. I believe that the Ibook had the old version of AOL for Mac OS X.
Anyway, in the past few months we installed AOL Desktop for Mac 10.6 but did not attempt to open it. We tried to open it today for the first time and it bounces for awhile, never opens and in Force Quit Menu/Activity monitor says "not responding" and eats up a bunch of CPU time and never opens. We tried using AppCleaner to delete every trace, repair permissions-> and then reinstall but same problem. Any ideas? Should we go to 1.7 or do you have a fix for 1.6?
Posted at 5:58PM on Oct 27th 2010 by Matthew
22. I have been using AOL Desktop 1.7.712 (beta 2) and it is a MESS! I have called in about it without success. The problem is that when I try to sign in the beta 2 msg appears and I cannot. The only way I found to do it is by clicking read more and then going to the Welcome screen. AOL says this is a "migration to new server problem", but this SHOULD NOT BE! I have been using AOL for 18 years and this is the worst situation I have experienced with AOL and they do not seem to care while I continue to pay the $11.99 monthly fee. I have been using Safari to access the FREE AOL service instead and it works fairly well. The initial problem I had was with the AOL ADDRESS BOOK dropping contacts and this was a few months ago after which I downloaded the initial beta---and still AOL cannot get things straight! It is all very puzzling and frustrating! If AOL thinks they can continue this without losing MAC customers, I think they are mistaken, and they should at least show us the courtesy of admitting to the problem, etc.
Posted at 4:15PM on Oct 28th 2010 by Jim
23.
1.7 doesn't work any better than 1.6. It is slow; freezes; takes
forever to open mail; if left open for a few minutes the entire
application freezes; nobody at AOL seems the least bit interested in
making it work well on a Mac. If they did they would have someone
responding to all these comments.
Posted at 6:06PM on Nov 5th 2010 by dietcoke53
24. Would like a button to automatically loads graphics instead of clicking a button each e-mail to ad the graphics.
Also seems very slow to open text. text window opens quickly then occasionally the text that fills the window takes forever to load. Next e-mail may be fine.
Posted at 12:06PM on Nov 8th 2010 by markjacob
25. I downloaded the new AOL Desktop but I do not like it
any better than the old AOL Desktop. Can't do so much on it.
I want to continue with my old old AOL 10.3.7
(Revision 4336-308)
although it is far far from perfect, full of frustations but
better than the new AOL Desktop.
But there's a notice that says:
"Do you want to participate without affecting your current
account? You can, but you must follow these instructions
carefully."
And when I click on - you must follow these instructions
carefully - I can't access, of course, because I can never
access any links of any kind on my AOL - have to copy them
onto the Safari or Firefox browsers, which work, whereas the
AOL browser does not. Now what???????????
Perhaps I'm going to lose my old AOL as well?????
Please answer. I see no answers on these blogs from AOL...
Posted at 2:24PM on Nov 10th 2010 by OppenheimH