Trillian Astra build 75 was just released and there are a lot of great new features, read more here: Trillian Astra Build 75.
If your ready to play with Trillian Astra but don’t want to wait forever for Cerulean Studio’s to release it or approve you to become a beta tester then click here to download the torrent.
After install you’ll find that Trillian Astra won’t connect so here’s a quick and easy work around:
1.First of all you’ll need to create a username in trillian astra inside the client.
2.Now when you try to connect it won’t connect right? Exit out of trillian
3.Go to this directory: C:\Document and Settings\YourName\Application Data\Trillian\users\(your username)
4.Find the file ASTRA-(your username).ini and open it in notepad.
5. You’ll see a line that says prefsConnectionSettingsServerPort=3158
6. Change the number from 3158 to 4444
7.Now save the file and try logging on in trillian
Good luck!
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Great! Works perfectly!
wait when it says ‘create a username in trillian astra inside the client.’ does that mean any random username or do i have to register\sign up for something somewhere
Kevin,
Just create a username and password in that interface, it will work fine even without connecting to the Astra system. :)
-Peter
Yeah it will work but your accounts will disappear the next time you start Trillian Astra. It stores the info on their server i guess, so when you’re not actually logged in, there’s nowhere to save it. Next time Trillian starts it’ll try to pull the accounts (MSC, Yahoo etc.) information from the server. I think. Just because I have this problem.
Not sure why it is not working for me but it’s not. I’m using Vista so i was not able to locate #3-#7 in order to change port information. Please help if one can. Please send whatever supportive information or whatever to my e mail address at l.d.Mitchell@gmail.com
Thanks ahead of time
I am having the same issue as Darnell and I too am using Vista as my OS. Thanks for your help.
Peter, I’ve completed the configuration changes to ASTRA-myusername.ini but my IM accounts for aim and yahoo do not appear when I restart Astra. I have to add them as a new connection each time when I startup Astra. Is there some setting I am missing?
The ASTRA-username.ini file was under path:
C:\Program Files\Trillian\users\default
instead of the path referenced above:
C:\Document and Settings\YourName\Application Data\Trillian\users\(your username)
I sure hope you can help. Thanks much….Brent
does anyone know where a newer version is?
lol! http://www.trillianastra.com
Astra is not released yet… a fake copy is going around on the net and the reason why your accounts will dissapear is not because its on trillian’s server, but on a hacker’s server
They get your personal info by spreading a modified version of this
hey how do i download it.
cuz i cant find a way how to.
is it free.
is it the same as trillian 3.1 but just a newer version.
thanks