How to download all attachments from Messages app to folder

[l0renz]

Hi

I'm looking for one particular photo someone sent me in the past via iMessage.
I know it's stored on my MacBook, thanks to the Messages app.
The process of finding this photo would be quicker if I wouldn't have to load the whole conversation, so I hope someone has a way to download all attachments in a folder.

Thanks for the help


Lorenz

 

[AndyK]

Pretty sure you can't do that exactly, looking around on google though it seems it's possible to have conversations saved to a folder but you need to have enabled it.

Google around & see, there seems to be plenty of ways to pull full conversations off an iPhone / iPad, you could do that if you have one?

 

[l0renz]

Pretty sure you can't do that exactly, looking around on google though it seems it's possible to have conversations saved to a folder but you need to have enabled it.

Google around & see, there seems to be plenty of ways to pull full conversations off an iPhone / iPad, you could do that if you have one?

I do have an iPhone and iPad, even a program to extract their backups (iExplorer), the only problem is that the conversation that I speak of, is deleted from these devices a long time a go so I lose that possibility. I really only have them stored in the Messages app.
By the way, the first thing I always do, is google 🙂 After half an hour I didn't find a solution so I tried on this forum.

Thanks for the input!

 

[melchior]

try

/Users/Username/Library/Messages/Attachments