Unfortunately error messages every three seconds, how can I fix this?

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"Unfortunately" error messages every three seconds

I have a Samsung galaxy s3 which I have had a little over a year now. Around midnight last night/ 1 a.m (2/9/16) I kept constantly getting (about everything 3 damn seconds) messages such as "Unfortunately google play services has stopped" And "Unfortunately com.google.process.gapps has stopped" I've tried to look up how to fix these issues but everything I have tried doesn't seem to be working AT ALL. I've gone in and cleared the google play services cache, force stopped it, same with google frameworks. The only things I have yet to try is just completely restart/reboot or let my phone go back to factory settings. I'm just very wary of trying that because I don't want to lose pictures or texts or things of that nature.
The only other thing I can think I could do is tak my phone to the att&t store, but generally they aren't very helpful...
if anyone has any advice or helpful tips please share. Thank you
-brittany

 

[belodion]

Re: "Unfortunately" error messages every three seconds

Try a Cache Partition wipe.

 

[brittany94]

Re: "Unfortunately" error messages every three seconds

Thank you for the suggestion! but what will it do exactly? Will it hopefully cause those error messages to stop popping up every three seconds and hopefully get things back to normal?

 

[brittany94]

Re: "Unfortunately" error messages every three seconds

well I gave ita shot but it didn't help unfortunately