Private chatology spam with my name archive#

So, first things first: here is where your Messages messages are now stored: So let’s assume that you have been saving your messages, and now you want to know where to find them, and they are no longer in ~Library/Messages

Private chatology spam with my name archive#

Your tips via CashApp, Venmo, or Paypal are appreciated! Receipts will come from ISIPP.Ĭheck “Save history when conversations are closed” in order to archive messages The Internet Patrol is completely free, and reader-supported. Of course, in order to search the messages, you have to have saved them you do this from the Messages program preferences. More and more people are receiving iMessage messages on their computer as well as their phone, ever since Apple rolled out the ability to send and receive text messages on your Mac back in 2014, with the release of OS X Yosemite.

It used to be that you could just go to ~Library/Messages on your Mac,and there all your iMessage messages were, in an Archive folder, however from OS X Mavericks (released in 2013) and forward, not only do they get stored in a different location, but once you upgrade from anything older than OS X 10.9, the new system ‘helpfully’ rearranges where even your existing messages are stored. Method #1 for Finding and Searching iChat and iMessage Messages on a Mac

Here are two methods to search all of your archived Mac messages at once. Let’s say you want to search all of the text messages that you have received on your Mac via Messages (formerly iChat), sent using Apple’s iMessage system, because you know someone sent you some information via chat messages, but you can’t remember who, or you can remember who but it was so long ago that scrolling back on your iPhone or in your Mac’s Messages chat window would take forever.