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camner

macrumors regular
Original poster
Jun 19, 2009
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I needed to reinstall OS X (Yosemite) and migrate my user from a backup. Everything went smoothly, except for the messages in the Messages app. All the messages threads are there in the sense that the contacts to/from whom the messages were exchanged appear, but all the messages have empty content.

I went to ~/Library/Messages and all of the attachments are in the Attachments folder.

This isn't the absolute end of the world because I have another device logged in the same apple ID, but I'm curious about how one can recover from this, if indeed it is possible.
 
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