iMessage on mac not working properly

Hello to the mac community!



I own an iPod touch and a MacBook pro with mountain lion. iMessage on my iPod touch works perfectly (it always sends, always receive messages seamlessly, and all the messages are in chronological order within the conversation.) On my MacBook pro, it's all the contrary. Messages are sent only 50 percent of the time (I often get "failed to send" with an exclamation point and have to resend it. I may have o do this 3-3 times. Other times it may work in one try) Sometimes I receive messages on my mac after 15 minutes. Also, the messages on my mac are not in chronological order so I often have to look at my iPod to be able to read the conversation.



I checked. Both iPod and mac are on the same email address for iMessage. I do not get why it works perfectly on iPod and it kindda ***** on mac.

Anybody has this problem? Anybody knows how to fix the issue?



Cheers

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Mar 6, 2013 5:50 PM

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Oct 23, 2013 12:38 PM in response to kiIIerQueen

Hi


I have not had a chance to test this as I save my Chats and Messages.


However if you have Save on Closure turned On then the Archive Folder within ~/Library/Messages will hold items that are listed in the Recent Items listings in Messages > File Menu > Recent Items.

This may mean they are "Active" even if moved to the Trash.





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8:37 pm Wednesday; October 23, 2013


 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mountain Lion 10.8.4)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad

Jan 30, 2014 2:13 PM in response to cgarch

Complaint reinstated. Why in the wide wide world of sports is this still a problem? This seems absurd that the lines of a conversation are completely out of order AND there seems to be no proven way to fix it. They have time stamps - why can't Apple add the appropriate code to place these in order? This makes no sense - at all.

Mar 27, 2014 10:29 AM in response to benduncalf33

Had the folowing problem:

Side 1: Mac Mini and iPad1

Side 2: iPhone 4 and iPad Air

Side 3: iPhone 4s and Macbook Air


1 <-> 2 works perfect. Every message goes to all the devices.


1 <-> 3 works sometimes. Lot of red exclamation marks.


Found out there were problems when the Macbook was asleep. Messages didn’t get delivered when sleeping. When running, no problem.

Other observation: the Mac Mini had Bonjour turned on.



My solution, turn on Bonjour on the Macbook Air and (until now) every things seems to work. Messages get send to a sleeping Macbook and no messages are missed.

Oct 17, 2014 1:21 PM in response to unarbre

Hi,


On the iPhone remove the Apple ID.

Then set the iPhone to Airplane mode for a few minutes to break with the server.


When back in the Messages app settings check the iPhone can send an iMessage to the Apple ID BEFORE you add it back as an option (Check the iPhone Number works).

If this works add back the Apple ID.

Restart the Mac version and accept any pop ups about the iPhone and the IDs it is using.





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9:21 pm Friday; October 17, 2014


 iMac 2.5Ghz i5 2011 (Mavericks 10.9)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad

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