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Disable your spell checker and it will stop crashing. Then you can delete the message, and re-enable the spell checker.

• pyre 14y ago
  Why would the spell checker be running against in-coming messages? So that you can be a grammar pedant and annoy your friends?
  • bdash 14y ago
    My guess would be that data detectors are used to detect and format links in incoming messages.
    • pyre 14y ago
      Then why would disabling Spellchecking affect that?
• chromejs10 14y ago
  This did not fix it for me. Turned off spell checker and text substitution. Have another solution?
  • seppler 14y ago
    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:%"