Messages not displaying content of old conversations

Earlier today the Messages app hung and I had to force quit it. Now, none of my old conversations are displaying. I have searched around and followed Lincs and Ralph Johns' suggestions in this thread, but nothing has fixed the problem.
To recap my attempts:
1. Trying in a new user account replicated the problem
2. Trying in Safe Mode replicated the problem.
3. All the database files under ~/Library/Messages show Read/Write permissions for my user account.
4. I have also repaired permissions from Disk Utility.
5. I even tried to follow the steps in this thread, but either I didn't understand what I was supposed to do or it it's pertinent to this issue since it didn't yield the same results in the steps 2, 6 and 9.
I would really appreciate your help with this issue.

Hi,
Messages can store different "messages" dependent somewhat on the type there are in two places.
Saved Chats (See Preferences > General section an Save on Close)
These are in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iChat/Data/Library/Messages/Archive.
This will save All type of Messages whether they are iMessages or other types (AIM, Jabber, Yahoo or Bonjour).
If they are iMessages they are stored Automatically in three .db items in ~/Library/Messages.
Both methods will add older chats to the top of the Chat window when you scroll up/back in time of the chat.
For me it has not done very well at retaining links to old chats prior to the Change to Yosemite (for me it start from this time).
So...
Moving to a different Account is not likely to help in this case as you have no History there either in the Chat.db items or the Archive folder.
Same with Safe Mode. However if you do it on your regular Mac User account and it does not help it points to some possibles.
Re 3.
I take it you stopped here as you expected them to be iMessages ?
AS well as your account showing and having Read and Write permissions did you use the little cogwheel icon and see if your Owned the file ?
Also did you display the Path Bar (Finder > View Menu > Show Path Bar) and check the Messages Folder's ownership and Read and Write permission ?
Right Click the icon for the Folder and then select Get Info.
Re 4.
Repairing permissions does not touch anything in your Home Folder (Little House icon).
This is why you have to check manually.
Re 5
Running /Applications/Messages.app/Contents/MacOS/Messages -errorLogLevel 7 in Terminal Starts up the App and creates a log whilst doing so.
It pauses once all of the Accounts are logged in at a point with some ComNAT info (open ports and the like).
It does repeat itself regarding BDW (Bandwidth) and the Mic and Camera that are in use and whether it can Audio Chat 1-9 people of Video 1-3 and so on. At the very top it lists the picture size it will be using in Video chats.
Michael Singletary found if you ran the log method of opening the app you could see if the record count was wrong.
You may have an incomplete saved item in the /Library/Containers/com.apple.iChat/Data/Library/Messages/Archive depending if the app was trying to save an Chat as it hung.
If you did not get:-
Confirm that an error similar to this appears: 2013-10-27 15:59:16.465 Messages[666:507] Chat history path /Users/username/Library/Containers/com.apple.iChat/Data/Library/Messages/Archiv e Status: 3 totalExpected: 162740 countProcessed: 29344, forcing an import.
Or something very similar then you don't have that issue.
If you have not had that many new iMessages or other type of Messages since the issue I would use Time Machine to replace the Chat.db items to something only slightly earlier and the same for the Archive folder.
Navigate to one of the folders to start from (like the Archive folder for instance)
Use the Time Machine icon in the DOCK.
It will change to the galaxy background the current window for the folder with what looks like stacked windows behind it.
Move back in time until it is indicated that the item is different.
Highlight the file/folder and then use the Restore Button.
Repeat for the other items in /Library/Messages.
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