Messages Beta for Mac - Clears history when closed

I have a big annoyance with the Messages Beta for Mac. When I close the window and re-open it, all the conversations are gone. This makes it hard to reply to a message I got earlier or review recent conversations. On iDevices, if you close it, everything is still there, unless you delete it. This is how I think the Mac version should work, anyone agree?

this mine did this the first time, but not after that. 
when I first tested messages beta, I texted a conversation, closed the window, and was surprised to see my conversations were not saved
however.
now my messages are saving even after shutting down the messages app completely.  I turn on messages and all my chats are back where they were when I shut down.  May just be a bug, but even under preferences it includes an option to choose where to save chat transcripts - so I imagine the final version will have this worked out and all your messages will be saved how you want them

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