
People can come and go as they enter and leave the “videosphere,” Messages slides.

If you do have “Save history” turned on, and you wind up having a particularly incriminating chat, you can tell Messages not to save its transcript by pressing ⌘-Delete. (To get to your Library folder, press Option as you choose Go→Library in the Finder.)

Even if you close one, you can retrieve its contents by starting another chat with the same person the history reappears.īehind the scenes, your transcripts are saved in your Library→Messages→Archives folder. In that case, Messages autosaves the text of your conversations. Unless, that is, you’ve opened Messages→Preferences→General and turned on “Save history when chats are closed.” When you close a chat by clicking the in its tab, the conversation is gone forever.
