iChat AV: GETTING A TRANSCRIPT OF YOUR CHAT

There are a dozen reasons why you might want a written log of your text chats: maybe someone gave you instructions, a recipe, or just typed a bunch of stuff that cracks you up. Well, luckily, you can ask iChat to keep a running log of your text chatsgo under the iChat menu, to Preferences, then click on the Messages icon, and turn on Automatically Save Chat Transcripts.