Messages will not load images since ML upgrade

Under Lion, the Messages beta was working well for me, but since I upgraded to Mountain Lion there is a major problem. If someone sends me an iMessage with an image, the image (and its associated text, if any) will hang indefinitely, never loading on my Mac. (Text-only messages work fine.) The image and text appear normally on my iPhone and iPad, but on the Mac there's nothing. The File Transfers window shows the image trying to come through, but the progress bar just hangs in the full-length moving stripes animation, never showing any progress, no matter how long I leave it. Is anyone else having this problem? Does anyone have an idea of how to fix it?

Hi,
I've been with the same problem for a couple of days, until finally today Messages simply stopped showing even a the window, so absolute inability to use it.
Considering that reinstalling the operating system is NOT a solution, I searched for something myself.
Pictures are controlled by xpcd, imagent and Messages, and it seems that when the problem arises is because they're using the wrong Apple server.
While this may be solved by Apple in a update (I hope so), in the meantime you can do a workaround (it worked for me on two different machines, and even days old images appeared).
In your Library, there is a folder called Preferences (that is /Users/<your_username>/Library/Preferences). There you should delete com.apple.imagent.plist com.apple.imservice.iMessage.plist and com.apple.imessage.bag.plist, with Messages CLOSED. Then reboot so Messages creates new ones. Also delete all file starting with com.apple.imagent, com.apple.imservice, com.apple.imessage and com.apple.iChat that end in .lock.
If even then it still is not working, deleting all files starting with com.apple.imagent, com.apple.imservice, com.apple.imessage and com.apple.iChat 100% for sure. But when you reboot you'll find you need to input again your login data for iMessage, FaceTime, Yahoo chat, AIM chat, Google Talk and Jabber (if you used them on Messages/iChat).
This is an annoyance, but less than a whole operating system reinstall or losing the functionality.
After all of this is done you should regain the ability to receive photos, send photos and drag&drop photos.
Regards,
Natalia Portillo
Claunia.com

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