DO NOT START THE MESSAGES APP and restart your computerġ0. This step is trickey: Copy all the files that contains "iChat" or "iMessage" from /.path to backup/Library/Preferences/ into the corresponding directory in ~/Library/Prefrencesĩ. Copy /Volumes/Old Macbook Pro/users/name/Library/Message to your ~/Library folderĨ. Copy /Volumes/Old Macbook Pro/users/name/Library/Containers/ to your ~/Library folderħ. Be sure to remember where you copied them from!Ħ. Find all the files in ~/Library/Preferences that contains the string "iChat" or "iMessage" and cut them into a separate folder. ~/Library/Message -> ~/Library/Message_oldĥ. ~/Library/Containers/ -> ~/Library/Containers/_old Locate the following folders in ~/Library (ON THE NEW MAC): Open a separate Finder window, go to ~/Library (Hold down option and click on Go in Finder)ģ. path to your old home folder/Library (For me it is on a removeable disk so I had to do Finder-> Go -> Go to Folder-> type in "/Volumes/Old Macbook Pro/users/name/Library"Ģ. Your new Macbook Pro, cleanly installed.ġ. Your Time Machine back up of ~/Library/ or your old computer that you want to port the chat history from.Ģ. (Recovered my iChat history/iMessage history on my Mac from my old backup files)ġ.
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