How do I delete a message when it won't go into trash?

On occasion messages received do not delete no matter how many times I hit the trash can. If I leave it alone for a while and return to the phone, the message is gone . . . what is happening???

Every mac has a main menu bar with the -menu in the upper left corner of the screen. This menu has the "About this Mac" menu entry. Have a look.
Don't post your serial numbers here in the public forum, but your MacOSX version and GarageBAnd version would be good to know.
And how the **** do I delete garage band stuff - it won't go to the trash bin but just keeps saying it is 'stopping' but never does.
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Hi,
There are two things going on here. (And the second is not dependant on the first)
The first is that Message Beta now stores all Chats by default and it cannot be changed. (It was optional in iChat)
By Default this is in ~/Documents/iChats (By date)
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I actually have a Migrated User Account that contains old iChat transcripts that go back to 2004.
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I find it useful as some people come back to me literally years later to ask follow up questions.
10:37 PM Saturday; March 24, 2012
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iOS: Using Messages
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT3529
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- Brenden

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