Type in your buddy's screen name or "handle" where it says New Buddy.
To add him, click the List Setup tab on the AIM control panel, right-click on Buddies, and select Add Buddy from the menu. Even if you are using IM for the first time, you probably know someone who is already a user and who can become your first buddy. Most new IM users will be joining a group of friends online, and will have a ready-made set of buddies. This will also disallow access to people who are not on your buddy list. Finally, in the File Access panel, select the radio button that says Allow (to enable file access for your buddies). Next, click on File Transfer and change the download directory to a better location: it can be the same Shared Files folder. Click on File Sharing, then go to the upper right, click the Browse button, and navigate to the Shared files directory. This will bring up a screen that lets you set up AIM the way you want it. Run AIM, click on My AIM on the toolbar, select Edit Options and then Edit Preferences. Move the files you want to share into this new directory. It should not be full of large multimedia files.) I created a directory called Shared files in my Downloads directory. (My Documents is a good place to keep essential data that you need to back up often. However, this may not be the one you want to use. AIM will create a directory in the My Documents folder in Microsoft Windows. In this article, we will look at file transfer using AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.7.īefore going online with AIM, set up a folder to hold the files you want to share.
If not, the process is largely automatic and hard to get wrong. We have already taken you through how to download a messaging program in this series (July 5, 2001), so we will assume you have already done this.
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