Where is my iMessage

I have Mountain Lion and I can't find for the life of me iMessage on my MacBook Pro Retina. Is not on the dock, is not in the application folder and I can't find it through "Spotlight" Where is it or how do I get it? Thanks in advance for your help.
~ Danny

If I'm not mistaken (and I have been in the past) you'd have to reinstall Mountain Lion to get Messages back. You could try something like Pacifist to try to install Messages only, but it's not for the feint of heart. If you purchased ML from the App Store, just download a fresh copy and install over your current copy - make sure that you have a backup first. Alternately, you could just hold down Command and R keys on boot and reinstall ML from the Recovery partition.
You must have deleted it somehow - getting Messages back is not going to be an easy chore.
Clinton

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Launch Finder
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Click the "Messages" Folder
Click "Archive" Folder
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Hi mitch236,
I see that you wish to control your iCloud account so that your iMessages and text messages only go to the devices that you desire. You will want to review the information in this article, which can show you where to find iMessage information on your devices and how to adjust your settings accordingly:
iOS and OS X: Link your phone number and Apple ID for use with FaceTime and iMessage - Apple Support
http://support.apple.com/en-is/HT201349
Take care, and thanks for visiting the Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
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Martin

Hi,
Ever since Messages was in Beta during may to December 2012 it has had an element of "Sync" which is in fact "Display on All Devices".
The stated goal has always been to get to a point where SMS and iMessages could be seen on both types of Device (Mac and iOS).
As the app has changed on the Mac through Messages 7 in Mountain Lion and the ver 8 in Mavericks and the so called ver 8 in Yosemite this has got closer during the various updates along the way.
Previous iChat versions have changed at Upgrades (OS X 10.8 to OS X 10.9 for instance) and sub version during update.
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This continues until we get to Mavericks.
There are at least three "builds" but all are still called version 8 (only error logs show you the difference)
In Yosemite the app still gets called Version 8 despite the Messages pane in the preferences completely disappearing and the subsequent changes to the general section and the disappearance of the Format Menu. There are also changes to the way you are stuck with the Contacts app Pic and not an independent one in the app like before and the round Buddy pic s in Buddy lists and in the Chats with associated changes and removal of linked Menu items for such Displays in each (no more Name and Pics in Chats)
Have you tried Do Not Disturb in the Notifications (System Preferences) so that Alerts or Banners do not appear ?
The Setting in the General Section of the Preferences that says "When I Quit set the Status to Offline" does not work for the iMessages account which means the app will start up if iMessages are "heard"
This does seem to be different to the Mountain Lion and Mavericks versions. However it does seem it stop the app launching but the DOCK displays the unread indicators.
I would take to unticking the "Enable this Account" box if you need to leave the computer On.
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 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
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And, when I signed it, it asked which account I wanted to use, showing me @me.com, @icloud.com and @gmail.com
What?
I don't even know. When I got it I signed up for whatever the default account was, not sure if it was icloud or me, so I don't even know. They all work to sign in though. But where are my iMessages?

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I can hear them arrive on the iPad, but soon realize that my wife never read those texts - which also explains the cross messages I get from her
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http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf

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As for pictures, you do Settings -> iCloud -> Photo Stream -> My Photo Stream -> turn switch off.
As for apps, you do Settings -> iTunes & App Stores (scroll down alot) -> Music, Apps, Books are all swtiched off.
If you want to the delete the music, you go onto the music app and slide your finger from right to left on the song.

TS4009 how do i delete multiple messages in Mail

For a variety of reasons I have 8000+ messages in my icloud Mail inbox. Deleting them individually would take forever and even using the shift key to delete a block would be very time consumming because I can only see less than ten per page.
How can I speed up the deletion process eg is there anyway to do a serch for say all the Facebook messages, not just the ten which would show up on the page from a search, and then delete everyone?
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Hi Nick,
Can I check we are all using the same language for the same items ?
In the File Menu of Messages is the Delete Conversation with the keystrokes of CMD + Backspace is listed.
If you highlight an individual IM in the Chat window side then whole conversation will be deleted after you confirm deletion.
There is no Menu item for removing individual IMs or iMessages from such a chat/conversations.
However, as I eventually understood Sig to be saying, you can highlight items in the chat window side and use the backspace (delete) key and remove those individual items from the chat/Conversations.
As Messages is iChat+ and has iMessages added to what iChat could do I refer to Buddy List connections as "IMs" for individual parts and "Chats" for the whole thing.
Whereas I say "iMessages" for individual parts and "Conversations" for the whole thing for the iMessages connections you have going on.
I stated this in my original reply
In an open Conversation or Chat individual IMs or Messages also cannot be selected to be deleted.
Highlighting one message and then using CMD + Backspace will produce the Pop up to delete the whole Conversation/Chat.
As I have posted to Sig I made the mistake of using the File Menu keystroke for deleting a Conversation/Chat when trying to delete individual IMs/iMessages and informed you incorrectly about this.
I apologise for any confusion this has caused.
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