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Messages loses messages!

Hi All,


Running an iMac with the latest OSX, all the latest updates, etc.


I'll have a conversation with someone (the one I just had was in GTalk) - I scroll back up to look at something we said, and its no longer there. It disappeared from our conversation history.


Anyone know why this might happen? Could it be that I'm low on iCloud space?


- Thanx

- Jon

Posted on May 24, 2013 9:06 AM

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Posted on May 24, 2013 11:49 AM

Hey jbauer,


You can locate all of your past conversations in this location


~/library/messages/archive/


Triple-click on the line above

Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select

Services> Open

From this folder you will be able to see folders with dates you can open any of these folders and restore the conversations by double clicking on a conversation. Conversations will have .ichat file type

The first part will help you to get your conversations back I would suggest you check in messages under preferences>messages and look for "save history when conversations are closed" and make sure that it is checked. This will help to make sure that your conversations stay in messages.

-Alex

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Messages loses messages!

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