I recently hit the message limit of 5000.
When I hit 5000 (after deleting some - very painful) it seems to cause multiple issues
Haron reported similar issues in Help>Message missing but Argo hijacked the thread
1. Recent messages to me disappear
2.Old replies by me disappear - this has always happened - I don't know if that is a feature
The difference near 5000 is that some reappear so
2a Current messages that I have read disappear
2b I couldn't see my replies before June in a particular conversation
Then I couldnt see replies from October
Then I couldnt see replies from the previous day
Then I could see replies back to July
Currently I can see replies back to 10-19
3 The problem only seems to occur in conversations with other players at their message limit of 5000.
*deleting old messages
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