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Fix iMessage from crashing after trolling/being trolled with "File: / //".
sqlite3 /Library/Messages/chat.db "DELETE FROM message WHERE text LIKE '%File:///%';"
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philfreo commented Feb 4, 2013

This alone didn't fix the crashes for me. I think the left sidebar text is cached somewhere else. Once I sent a long message (from my phone) in each conversation with the evil string, then it stopped crashing.

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