I notice that the pictures sent/received with my iPhone do not appear in Messages on my Mac. I have read that I need to go to the Library and delete the Messages.db but wonder whether this will wipe out all the history or whether magically all of those pictures would appear in Messages on my Mac.
MacBook Air, macOS Sierra (10.12.6), early 2015 2.2GHz i7 8 GB RAM
Hi,
Going to ~/Library/Messages and deleting the three Database items will lose the history to all the Chats that the iMessages side has kept - and - delete reference to ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iChat/Data/Library/Messages/Archive where all Saved Chats are stored be they iMessages, AIM or Jabber chats.
Pictures in chats come through different servers and become Attachments to chats/Conversations.
Some apps that have firewall abilities like Little Snitch block app and processes from app that don't have the main App's name in their title.
This IMRemoteURLConnectionAgent is the one that logs the iMessages side into iMessages
There is another process that opens and closes around pictures or files (as that is what they actually are) are sent.
This has IMTransferAgent in it's name.
The Mac firewall will allow process linked to an app.
Another issue can be the servers
Names like init-p01md.apple.com
can confuse some DNS servers.
Sometimes adding a public DNS server to your list on the Mac and in the Router can help.
One search Free and Public DNS Server List (August 2017)
9:19 pm Wednesday; August 30, 2017
Pictures in Messages on MacBook Air
