Messages app problem on mac OSX 10.11.1

By Jonathan Candler, 30 October, 2015

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macOS and Mac Apps

Hello all,
So, I'm actually having a problem after updating to the latest el Capitan update, Messages is not behaving properly. Here is what I'm seeing. Every message that I sent weather it's from an I message or an SMS message, they are sending extremely slow. Also, contacts that I text are not showing up on the receiving side of things, but they show up in ICloud just fine. Other strange things that I'm seeing is that when I go to compose a message within the messages app, I would usually go into the recipients edit field, type in part of their name and it shows up. Well, not, any more. Every time I type into that field, the app crashes. Just to note, messages send and receive fine when I'm not signed into ICloud and that works like a charm. I have tried re signing into IMessage a few times and into ICloud as well but that doesn't seem to fix the problem. Is anyone else having this problem? and have you all found a fix to this? thanks so much.

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