How to download all attachments from Messages app to folder

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  1. l0renz, May 26, 2014

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    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


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  2. AndyK, May 27, 2014

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    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?
     
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  3. l0renz, May 27, 2014

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    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!
     
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  4. melchior, May 27, 2014

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    try
    Code:
    /Users/Username/Library/Messages/Attachments
     
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