Restoring Macbook Pro next week, don't want to lose iMessages!

[JarrettH15]

Have to restore my macbook at Apple this week, Yosemite is making my laptop run super slow and it is also stuck in an update loop.

I have a ton of iMessage conversations on my Macbook from as far back as 2012 (that I do not have on my iPad or iPhone) and I really don't want to lose them when I restore this laptop Monday. What are my options as far as backing all those messages up and then loading them all back up when I restore and reconfigure the computer!

Thank you so much in advance!

Jarrett

MBP 13in Mid 2012
2.5ghz i5 4gb ram
Yosemite 10.10.1

 

[maflynn]

I could be wrong, but I don't think there any options to restore iMessages. Still would you lose them because they're in the cloud and you have them on your iPhone/iPad. No?

Edit: I'd back up the entire computer just in case, so you can restore back to 10.10 in case they do disappear.

 

[JarrettH15]

I could be wrong, but I don't think there any options to restore iMessages. Still would you lose them because they're in the cloud and you have them on your iPhone/iPad. No?

Edit: I'd back up the entire computer just in case, so you can restore back to 10.10 in case they do disappear.

Whenever I got a new iPad/iPhone I would start with no messes so they're not on those. What type of backup should I run? Time machine? Really not sure. Thank you!

 

[Alrescha]

A Time Machine backup should take care of this for you. If you would like extra insurance, you should find the messages in:

/Users/yourusername/Library/Containers/com.apple.iChat/Data/Library/Messages/Archive

A.

Addendum: I would recommend backing up the entire Messages directory using Finder's "Compress" option to create a zip file.