exporting an entire iMessage convo on iMac to PDF

I bought a software that automatically scrolls in an attempt to scroll to the top of a conversation on iMessage on my iMac that goes back two years. It will take a very long time so I'm wondering: is there another way, without having to scroll to the top of the conversation, to export the ENTIRE two year long conversation from the very beginning to PDF? I know you can select a conversation on the iMessage app on the iMac, then File>Print>Save as PDF but that only does like four pages of conversation (obviously does not go back to the start of two years worth of texts back and forth).


If I have to wait for the scrolling software to reach it I guess I will save it as a pdf when that times comes if that's the only way to get the whole thing saved. My computer will be running for a few days, maybe a week, with a couple occasional hiccups I'm sure cause it's a bit older.


I'm also willing to pay money for any third-party app that can do it for you if anyone knows of anything like that. Most stuff I've found can make a pdf file for iPhone convos after transferring it to the iMac, but not just from iMessage texts already on the iMac.

iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Jul 23, 2020 12:13 PM

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