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 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.
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[...] one contact from the list. This is not possible in Skype. We mentioned a manual way of clearing the Skype chat history for one contact but that was a rather complicated way of achieving this. Our reader Primoz [...]
Excellent directions. bravo.
Wow…this is simply marvellous coz Skype had me stumped. Can’t thank you enough.
How do you delete chat history in Yahoomessenger? does anyone know?
you can delete it.
thanks for you help but if you go to
options -> chat and sms -> advance options -> clear chat history
Small utility can do this also: http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=178741
Ok, there is a way to clear the message history, just go to “tools”, “options” and there is an option to choose for how long you will like to keep track of your conversations. Also yu will find a clear history option.
Hope this information works for you all!
Xcellent I tried this it really works, thanx for helping me
Hi everyone!
I tried to follow the directions to remove the chat history from one contact but I came across two difficulties:
1) I am only able to find one database file, main.db. I couldn’t find any of the files chatmsg256.dbb, etc.. mentioned above.
2) I am not able to open the file that I have found (main.db). I tried it with Microsoft access but it didn’t work. Neither does it work with a notepad.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
T.
open skype and then click:
tools—>options—>privacy(which is on the left)—>show advanced options—>clear history