I have not deleted any messages, but older ones are not showing up. Is there a way to get these back? Working on a Macbook Pro
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)
You can only restore the whole message database, not individual messages or conversations. This procedure will replace the database with an earlier version, so you'll lose all later changes.
Sign out of iMessage and all other IM accounts, if any. Quit Messages. Hold down the option key and select
Go ▹ Library
from the Finder menu bar. A folder window will open.
Restore the subfolder named "Messages" from a backup that predates the unwanted changes, then log out and log back in.
If you're running OS X 10.9 or later, also restore the subfolder Containers/com.apple.iChat.
If you don't have a backup, the archive can't be restored.
How do I recover old imessage messages that have not been deleted?
