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Author here. I have sent/received 643,576 messages since 2009 which totaled 590MB. To my knowledge media is never stored in the SQL database (for iMessage).

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Wow. I thought it would be much bigger with all the indexes and many columns. (Even if the media itself isn't in the DB)

Thanks for the clarification.

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