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Messages is one of the original iPhone (now iOS) apps shipped with the iPhone. It is included in macOS since OS X Mountain Lion. This tag also should be used for all iMessage questions.
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How can I get continuity of Messages if I'm not using Migration Assistant?
I manually copied ~/Library/Messages from my old Macbook to my new Macbook.
Yet Messages still does not see the message history. … How can I get continuity of Messages if I'm not using Migration Assistant? …
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How can I get continuity of Messages if I'm not using Migration Assistant?
Do not manually copy
~/Library/Messages from an old Mac to a new Mac. … Weird effects will ensue, such as being able to text some recipients from either iPhone or macOS and see the messages simultaneously appear in the other OS/device (as expected), but seeing the dreaded …
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How can I access `~/Library/Messages`?
The folder is owned by the user, not by root:
% ls -al ~/Library | grep Messages
drwx------ 11 sam staff 352 29 Jun 12:11 Messages
and yet I cannot read the contents
% ls -al ~/Library/Messages … /bak/sam/Library/Messages /Users/sam/Library >> /tmp/messages-log 2>&1
as it yields
building file list ... done
Messages/
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/Users/sam/Library/Messages" failed: Operation …
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How can I access `~/Library/Messages`?
macOS (or at least Monterey) will not let the user rsync into
~/Library/Messages.
It will, however, let you rsync into ~/, and from there you can drag
the Messages folder into ~/Library. …
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Why are some SMS-recipients reachable through iOS but not macOS?
I can launch the Messages app on Catalina and send an SMS to anyone on my iCloud or Gmail contact lists, which gives me the convenience of touch typing replies, as well as seeing attachments on a large … When I enter this recipient's name in Messages, I only get a few older messages. When I receive messages from this one individual, I can only see them on iOS, not through macOS. …
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