messages app screen is empty

My messages app shows blank screen every time I open it

I tried to fix it sooner and deleted files (chat.db, chat.db - shm, wal - chat.db, etc.) because it was suggested in another post on the forum (iMessage on mac doesn't work does not correctly)

Almost all the menu bar options are also empty.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

May be a corrupt .plist.

Make a backup, preferably 2 backups on 2 separate drives.

Quit the application.

Go to Finder and select your user folder. With this Finder window as the windshield, select Finder/display/display options for presenting or order - J.  When the display options opens, check "show the library folder. This should make your visible user library folder in your user folder.  Select the library. Then go to Preferences/com.apple.iChat.plist.  Move the .plist on your desktop.

Restart your computer, open the application and test. If it works fine, delete the plist for the office.

If the application is the same, return the .plist where you got it, crushing the latest.

If this does not work, repeat the above, but remove the com.apple.imagent.plist

Thank you Leonie and Ralph Johns (UK) , that some information contained in the present.

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