How on Earth does the blogger have only 1GB of iMessage data since 2009?
Mine gets bloated with images and videos to multi gigabytes in days, and it's unlikely that it's used only for text for 13 years. (I mean, it's either never used at all, or used for all sorts of media not just text, and since it has been used, it should be the latter)
Even if the actual media isn't stored in the database, all the metadata for all those messages should exceed 1GB IMO.
> How on Earth does the blogger have only 1GB of iMessage data since 2009?
Anecdatum: My `chat.db` on this laptop is 44MB for 30863 messages going back just under 4 years (basically just a handful of family.) I can see that being 1GB even for triple the length of time and many more interactions, sure.
The `Attachments` folder next to it, on the other hand, is 6.4GB.
Author here. I have sent/received 643,576 messages since 2009 which totaled 590MB. To my knowledge media is never stored in the SQL database (for iMessage).
Mine gets bloated with images and videos to multi gigabytes in days, and it's unlikely that it's used only for text for 13 years. (I mean, it's either never used at all, or used for all sorts of media not just text, and since it has been used, it should be the latter)
Even if the actual media isn't stored in the database, all the metadata for all those messages should exceed 1GB IMO.