Messages do not update on mac pro

I'm running a 3,1 dual 3.2 G, 16GB MacPro with Mavericks 9.5.
My Macbook Pro's running Mountain Lion.
I'm having trouble with Messages 8.0 on the MacPro. I ran Disk Warrior today, and I restarted to find all of my messages gone. Checked the Messages archive in my library,and it had apparently not updated in quite some time (a month or so).
I see that my Macbook Pro updates its messages to current whenever I log on. Not so with the Mac Pro. Settings appear to be identical. Can anybody help with this? I'd love to get my messages back on the desktop; they're all still on the laptop and my iPhone.
Thanks...

Hi,
I must admit I tend to do it this way:-
From Re: messages "An error occurred while activating. Try again later"
"If that does not work find the com.apple.imessages.bag.plist and Restart the app
This forces to reconnect with one of the iMessages servers.
If that does not work Right Click the Preferences Folder icon in the Path Bar and select the "Get Info" option.
In the info panel that appears scroll to the bottom.
Your short name should be listed here with Read and Write Permissions.
Then highlight your Name and use the Cogwheel icon under the list.
This should list a line about making you the Owner but in greyed out text. (if it is greyed out you already Own it)
The above is where the files are stored.
However in Mavericks and Yosemite the Messages is one of th Sandboxed apps that effectively have a "Read and Write route" to those .plists
In the Finder window you have open click on the Library icon to open the Library itself.
Then navigate to Containers/com.apple.iChat/Data/Library/Preferences
You will notice that this has Aliases pointing to files of the same names as in ~/Library/Preferences.
Right click this Preferences Folder icon and do the Get Info thing.
Check you have Read and Write Permissions and that you Own it.
Repeat for each folder back to the Library one (Library, Data, com.apple.iChat )"
This is because I have always tried the least amount of changes along the way to solving an issue.
However Eric's way is easier.
8:57 PM Monday; December 1, 2014
 iMac 2.5Ghz i5 2011 (Mavericks 10.9)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
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