Did you know that the default setting for the Skype Chat History is forever? That means, every chat with every contact is still visible using the View Chat History right-click menu option. This could be a privacy related issue if someone else has access to your computer. Skype offers a way to delete the complete chat history of every contact and to change the time period in which the chat history is kept. It leaves the user clueless however on how to remove the chat history with one contact only and the official answer from Skype is that it is not possible to delete the chat history of one contact. This is only partially correct. There is no easy way to clear the chat history but there is one.
Skype offers a way to delete the complete chat history of every contact and to change the time period in which the chat history is kept. It leaves the user clueless however on how to remove the chat history with one contact only and the official answer from Skype is that it is not possible to delete the chat history of one contact. Oct 30, 2018 - In order to ensure that no one other than you gets to view your Skype messages then it is important to completely delete Skype chat history.
Skype saves all chats with contacts in a Skype folder in Documents & Settings. The full path would be C: Documents and Settings username Application Data Skype skype username. In there you find the databases chatmsg256.dbb, chatmsg512.dbb, chatmsg1024.dbb, chatmsg2048.dbb, chatmsg4096.dbb and chatmsg8192.dbb. Those files contain your chat history. Unfortunately though those are not sorted by contact but by length.
This means that you would have to open each of the files and look for the lines of the contact that you want to delete. What makes things worse is that there will be lots of garbage in the text editor and that it is not always obvious who the chat contact of the current line is. The best approach in my opinion would be to make copies of the files and work with them. You can't open the originals if Skype is open and you do need Skype to look at the chat history and search for the phrases in those files. It is lots of work but the only working way of clearing the chat history of one contact in Skype.
Update: Skype has changed the format in which messages are saved. The data is only stored in one database, main.db. Instead of saving the message history in multiple databases.
The program ' ' enables you to delete the chat history with a single contact in Skype if you are running a version of Skype that is using the newer database format.Advertisement. Hello people, Gud news to u all At last I figured out a solution to delete Skype history. This works in Skype.
Unfortunately I dont know about the older versions. But using this option you can only delete complete chat history. It is not possible to delete Contact specific history. To delete the same you just have to follow the following steps Step 1- Open up skype as then click on “tools” in the top right hand corner. Step 2 – Select “options” Step 3 – Choose the “Privacy” icon on the left hand side then click on “Privacy Setttings” from the exanded tab. Step 4 – Look in right side of the menu about the middle vertically. You can see the option ” Keep Chat History for” just select “no history” click save and you are done.
To also delete your old chat history just follow the same steps above then Step 5 – Click on the form button that says “Clear Chat History” Click save and you are done. Happy Skyping. On Mac OS, skype 5.1, find the file main.db at /Users/username/Library/Application Support/Skype/skypename stop skype open the main.db and edit What I did was to find all stings matching the target skype contact name and replace with a different string of the same length (for safety) Save the modified file open skype now I had TWO contacts – one with modified name and all the history, another one with original name and no history. Remove the contact with history using standard skype option “contacts - delete contact” you are left with the contact and no history done.
I got it working using the SQLite Manager plugin available for Mozila Filrefox. Just install this plugin to your browser, and simply go to Web Developer - SQLite Manager. Open the main.db file from the skype location in your user’s directory and navigate to ‘Messages’ table. Just hit ‘Search’ button, and it will show a dialog box.
Supply the name of the person (as displayed in skype) for the person you want to delete the history for against the column ‘dialogpartner’ and click ok. It will fetch all results for that person, and now select all and click delete.
Note: Programmers can do it via query ‘Delete from Messages where dialogpartner=; Note: skype should be closed while doing all this and you are done. You won’t find any messages for the skype partner next time you login. I wrote small program for windows 32 and 64 (xp.7,9) similar as but my version can select messages and delete it by selected prefiltered rows individualy.
If you interested write me mail and i send you beta version for testing for free mailto:[email protected] to future will be possible to scramble-encoding messages from selected row or by selected contact to protect your personal information with password and decode it, because SQLlite database used for skype messages is not encoded, protected and with small knowledge readable by anyone wich has contact to your computer. I have made the mistake of asking a”friend” to open a new Skype account for me. He did this and sent me my skypename as well as password. He did not, however change it on his side so he now has free access to my skype account. I have been trying forever, but he is obviously preventing me from changing the password from my side.
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What do I do as he has the skype “open” it seems, on his side all the time? He deletes msg’s and adds msg’s as it pleases him on my own Skype!? He has done the same with a additional email account.
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Here to he seems to have a free pass and deletes stuff whenever it suits him.