An internal Messages error occurred. (tried everything)

This info is not helpful for me. There is no linphone_chats.db file in my ~/Library/Caches folder. Did you locate this file in one of the com.apple.xxx subfolders inside this directory? I cannot locate a file by this name on any of the Macs I have checked so far including one where Messages works fine and one where Messages has this problem.

Well, the app itself has not crashed (yet), but the messages are not tracking with my iOS devices so it is not linking properly with iCloud where you'd think the master database is maintained. So I'm going to look into the fix recommended below and give it a try.

Yep. I've been having this problem since the inception of the Mojave Release back in October 2018. Almost a year now. It started up being the worst ever around the 20th of August or so, 2019. I can not open it at all without an internal error message and also the **** thing bounces on my screen all day long but opening it spells disaster. It's annoying to not be able to use it. I want to send messages from my compute, not my phone. I worked with Apple for weeks in trying to resolve the issue and it really got no where. We tried and tried and tried. I even got a gift card out of the whole thing, which goes to show you how long we were trying. It totaled about some 25 hours. I find the whole thing to be beyond frustrating. The whole thing with Mac is to make communication and computing...well, easy. This is a long lasting bug that quite frankly is inexcusable. In addition, somehow it affects my fingerprint recognition and it won't let me log in or use my finger print for logging into web sites. Again, very frustrating and extremely inefficient when it comes to the manufacturer of what should be the easiest machine in the world. Good luck. I'm always looking for the fix myself.

Has there been a known fix for this yet? Same thing has happened to me.

I just upgraded from a MacBook Air (Mojave) to a MacBook Pro 2015 (Mojave).

All of my files were transferred via cloud. Messages is giving me the same error.

My Desktop at home, runs on High Sierra... and I've never had this issue with it.

thoughts?

This is happening to me too and I have wasted hours of my life on the phone with Apple support making me just through hoops to no avail. After a 2 hour reinstall of the system the problem is back. After investing in a 3K 15 inch MacBook Pro I really should not be dealing with this. Apple Support is SO UNHELPFUL!!!!

Thank you for these responses! You are a MILLION times more helpful than Apple Support. So is the bottom line that this is a software issue (Mojave 10.14) or a hardware issue (my new computer is screwed up and requires crazy modifications to function the way it should)? I can't decide if I should go to the store and attempt (fruitlessly) to get them to do something or should I just put my hopes on Catalina and wait it out?

I partly agree seems to be in the cloud, as I created a test account on another Mac, got the same issue, but only on Mojave. High Sierra works fine. Run Disk util, same issue

I'm still having this issue. I wonder when Apple is going to pay attention to this bug?

same here. Come on Apple, fix this.

BTW, I'm still getting the internal message error.

Any news on this fix? Just upgraded to Mojave and I'm regretting it terribly. We need a fix here!!!!

I did the safe boot thing and it didn't fix the internal Messages error problem. Surely Mac can come up with a fix. This has been going on for quite a while now.

what steps did you take in order for it to work?