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mathrawka
on Feb 2, 2013
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Do Not Type "File:///" in OS X
Disable your spell checker and it will stop crashing. Then you can delete the message, and re-enable the spell checker.
pyre
on Feb 2, 2013
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Why would the spell checker be running against
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-coming messages? So that you can be a grammar pedant and annoy your friends?
bdash
on Feb 2, 2013
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My guess would be that data detectors are used to detect and format links in incoming messages.
pyre
on Feb 2, 2013
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Then why would disabling Spellchecking affect that?
chromejs10
on Feb 2, 2013
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This did not fix it for me. Turned off spell checker and text substitution. Have another solution?
seppler
on Feb 3, 2013
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This will remove any messages from your iMessage database that contain %File:% (% is a wildcard):
sqlite3 ~/Library/Messages/chat.db "delete from message where text like "%File:%"
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