Copy iMessages from Mavericks to Yosemite?

Hi all:
I just did a clean install of Yosemite, looking to copy my iMessages history from my Mavericks system over. I tried copying the contents of ~/Messages over, but once I launch Messages, I it says "Messages is updating... The Messages database is being upgraded, please wait...". I let it sit for over 20 minutes, Activity Monitor shows little to no disk activity. Has anyone done this before? Seems there must be a bug causing the database upgrade function to hang. Any ideas?
Thanks!
-emde

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