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Someone sent File: / / / to me over iMessage, how do I open Messages?

As you may or may not know, typing File: / / / into any Cocoa app crashes it : http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/02/02/typing-these-eight-characters-will-c rash-almost-any-application-on-your-mac/


However, now that it's in my Messages database I can't open the app any more. I'm on 10.8.2


I've cleared the contents of ~/Library/Messages but that doesn't do anything.


Any ideas?


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Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Feb 3, 2013 1:54 AM

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Feb 4, 2013 10:02 AM in response to mattisanoob

Turns out I didn't need to fix anything - I had deleted the thread containing the File:... on my iPhone and iPad and couldn't remove it on my Mac Messages which was causing the issue but when the same person sent me a new iMessage today, it seems to have synced with my iPhone and iPad and replaced the old thread with the new one. No more File:.. so everything works fine again!

Someone sent File: / / / to me over iMessage, how do I open Messages?

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