Early betas of OS X Yosemite had a bug where the library of old messages wasn't migrated. Instead a new library was created and all old messages were gone.
The bug has been fixed, but if you were affected, you still have two separate libraries. This script merged them for me. Use it at your own risk! You might end up worse than before. Backup everything beforehand. Twice.
This is what your ~/Library/Messages folder will look like if you're affected:
When dealing with legacy data it's been pretty common to run into malformed / illegal byte sequences in files. Figuring out what's causing the issue is often really difficult, especially when the file has thousands of rows.
Here's a trick I pretty much stumpbled upon:
nl file.txt | sort
sort: string comparison failed: Illegal byte sequence
sort: Set LC_ALL='C' to work around the problem.
| -- Adapted from these sources: | |
| -- http://peterdowns.com/posts/open-iterm-finder-service.html | |
| -- https://gist.github.com/cowboy/905546 | |
| -- | |
| -- Modified to work with files as well, cd-ing to their container folder | |
| on run {input, parameters} | |
| tell application "Finder" | |
| set my_file to first item of input | |
| set filetype to (kind of (info for my_file)) | |
| -- Treats OS X applications as files. To treat them as folders, integrate this SO answer: |
| # {{{ Android phone sync (PS) and backup | |
| PS_BACKUP_DIR=~/Android/Backup # Where to keep backups | |
| PS_BACKUP_KEEP=60 # Days to keep backups | |
| PS_BACKUP_ENCRYPT_TO="0x00000000" # GPG key ID to sign and encrypt to | |
| PS_IP="192.168.0.100" # The IP your device will be found at | |
| PS_SSH="Nexus" # The SSH host of your phone, or an SSH alias | |
| PS_STAGING=~/Android/Sync # The staging folder for sync, sans trailing slash | |
| PS_SDCARD=/sdcard # The sync root on the phone, sans trailing slash | |
| PS_RSYNC_OPT="-vzuLr --no-perms" # Extra options to pass to rsync |
