Quick tech minute: resurrecting a dinosaur, SOLVED: Frontpage cannot open web the folder isn’t accessible.SOLVED: how to bulk rename image files with date and time (VikingOSX’s script using ExifTool).However, hopefully this general approach will spark someone in the right direction, even if some additional jiggling is required for your situation. I did a lot of fiddling before trying this “set” of steps that worked, and while I think I have not forgotten any steps I took, I may have. No code was needed or called for this time, and it stayed on! Switched Text Message Forwarding on for the Mac. On iPhone, under “Messages > Text Message Forwarding” the Mac was properly showing as a (switched off) option.On Mac, I marked the box to “Enable Messages in iCloud.”.This time, there was a new option shown to “Enable Messages in iCloud.” So… On Mac, went back to Messages > Preferences, and signed in again.There, under “Apps Using iCloud,” I found that “iMessage” was ‘turned off,’ as in ‘not using iCloud.’ I switched iMessage ON for iCloud usage. On iPhone, went to Settings > “My Name” > iCloud. On iPhone, turned on iMessage (switched it back on).All the above required some “verifications” (authentications) back and forth to get iPhone and Mac logged (/back) into Apple ID / iCloud.While at, I “removed” my Mac from being logged in, so I could force a new login of it.I finally broke down and turned on Two-Factor Authentication at. (Didn’t sign back in until a step shown below.) On Mac, under Messages > Preferences, I signed out of iCloud account. (I have an iPhone XR with up-to-date iOS 12.1.4, and a MacBook Pro (17″) with MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6.) I cannot promise my situation will match yours, or that this will work, but perhaps it will help. None of the “fixes” I found in googling worked for me, but after banging my “sign out/ sign in” fixes around the four walls of my brain, I finally stumbled on a series of actions that worked. Quite a few folks have been complaining on Apple fora and various websites that they cannot get (SMS) Text Message Forwarding to work again (after it was fine before some update).
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