a macos issue …
yesterday, had an apple music fubar (my fault but their confusing ux didn’t help) which was resolved by an angry reboot and mucking with time machine (which also has become much more confusing – or is it old age?). after all the dust & smoke settled, discovered that about 9 months of messages to&from my most important correspondent, my kid, were gone. everything from late april until yesterday morning at 09:42 (note that my battle with apple music was in the late afternoon). but only on the mac. they’re all still present (as far as i’m willing to scroll) on the phone and tablet.
messages from all other correspondence were untouched.
weirdness.
question is: can these messages be recovered? more to the point, can they be recovered without damaging other messages or anything else on this increasingly fragile machine?
i have “delete after one year” enabled, btw.