Chat Terminated, Waiting To Restart (Propane for Campfire)

We use 37 Signals Campfire for team chatter and various back channels.  On OSX there is a desktop client called Propane.  It works well and makes Campfire usable for our team.  Recently, I started getting “Chat Terminated, Waiting to Restart” messages on a regular basis (like every time I attempted to talk in a room).

I tried clearing caches, rebooting and diagnosis of the networks I was on.  I had been traveling a lot so initially I thought it was poor wifi at the places I was traveling.  After a week of traveling and being back at office and having it happen on at least 30 different networks, I started to think maybe my airport had gone bad.

Jade Meskill had suggested clearing all local references to propane and so I did the following:

1. Closed Propane
2. Removed ~/Library/Application Support/Propane
3. Removed ~/Library/Preferences/com.protocool.Propane.plist
4. Removed ~/Library/Caches/com.protocool.Propane
5. Restarted Propane

All my problems with Propane are now gone.  Since I could not find any reference to fixing this on the Google(tm) adding as a blog post to maybe help someone else struggling with Campfire with Propane getting the Chat Terminated, Waiting to Restart error message.

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