10.8.2 Messages: iMessage sorting messed up

[r2shyyou]

I, too, find that Messages is really, really buggy. Laughably so, even.

Who has the issue of iMessage saying every one of your contacts in the message list is Offline? No message for any contact, phone numbers only.

I have done every fix known on the net for this, and it just reoccurs about once a month. I go to open, and it's as if it stops communicating with the server.

All of my settings are 100% accurate.

Anyone run into this, or know why it happens. ?

This happened to me recently. I think (don't remember exactly, sorry) that I logged out of my iCloud account and then logged back in and either immediately or eventually it came back online. However, my issue may have been related to having restored my phone as new and, thus, the phone losing all Messages conversations...but I can't say that definitively.

Did you recently restore your iPhone/iPad/iPod touch?

 

[reel2reel]

This has happened a few times with me, but I've found that if I quit Messages — by actually pressing command-Q, not by just closing the window — the messages are properly sorted the next time I open the app.

Thank-you, that worked for me. I've been dealing with this for weeks now and should've just come here for a solution in the first place.

Jeez, how long has this been going on? Apple has really got to get their --it together these days. Too many things half-baked.