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By: LOL

LOL — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:07:10 +0000

You are last from many morons which are unable to read the topis, please try harder to understand:
“Clear the Chat History of one contact in Skype”

Hint for you, one nad all are a two different things.
Excuse me, but I had to write this…

By: noella

noella — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:48:47 +0000

hey i was just wondering how you look at old chat history since the sms only goes so far back, how would i go to open up old chat historys with one person?

By: Andrej Mikulik

Andrej Mikulik — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:45:12 +0000

This looks useful:

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/database/RemoveSkypeHistory.aspx

By: leo

leo — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 23:20:02 +0000

my problem is,that i dont want any of m chat histor to be even saved to start with,and even with the “no history” option on, i still get my last messages on every time i log in…anone to know how to get rid of it all without complications?

By: Shahzad

Shahzad — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 08:47:19 +0000

GUYS its very simple i have done and it worked, Go to skype menu — privacy—-and find their keep history for and front of it clear history the button press and hurrah history clear.

enjoy

By: DIY

DIY — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:32:36 +0000

Beast, good reply…

What do I open the DB with? When I used text/edit there was a gabillion list of code and I can’t sift through that to find the chat I want to delete

Can you go through this again for the more non porous :))

By: Jane

Jane — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 14:34:57 +0000

You can go to history –> press control then delete each conversation or call, but you cant do one contact in particular.

By: Beast

Beast — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:11:44 +0000

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

By: Beast

Beast — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 21:29:15 +0000

Can not agree with you more. retardation all around us :(

By: aaa

aaa — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:01:39 +0000

wow half of you guys are fucking retarded. the thread is about how to delete individual conversations what you’re saying is prevent saving and deleting ALL the conversations.

By: sdfasf

sdfasf — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:07:44 +0000

tools—>options—>privacy(which is on the left)—>keep chat history for —-> disable history will prevent saving the chat history.

By: kingeric11

kingeric11 — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:44:12 +0000

on a mac just go click on skype in the toolbar and go to preferences. There is a way to clear the history that way.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 10 May 2010 20:52:08 +0000

Rajesh you boob, you ought to learn to read first before offering such lousy advice. Your suggestion deletes chat skype history for ALL contacts not just one.

I hope your careless advice doesn’t ruin someone’s day!

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:33:55 +0000

Hello people,,,
Gud news to u all…… At last I figured out a solution to delete Skype history.
This works in Skype. 4.1.0…. 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.

This works.. trust me…..
Happy Skyping………….

By: natalie

natalie — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:29:46 +0000

But how would one go about this with a mac?
for the life of me I can’t seem to find any of these files!

By: Kosi2801

Kosi2801 — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:35:21 +0000

SQL got messed up in the reply, sorry.

Use
DELETE FROM messages WHERE dialog_partner = skype_name
where you exchange “skype_name” with the skype-name of the person you want to delete the history of.

By: Kosi2801

Kosi2801 — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:33:52 +0000

If you know one thing or another in SQL you can more comfortably delete the history. Skype 4 saves the history in a SQLite format.

You could delete the history for a specific contact/conversation using

DELETE FROM messages WHERE dialog_partner =

For more details on the Skype internal storage and some tricks you can have a look over at
http://kosi2801.freepgs.com/2009/12/03/messing_with_the_skype_40_database.html

By: WhosHollyyy

WhosHollyyy — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:33:44 +0000

For some reason when i go to “Computer” i can’t even find the documents and settings. i have windows vista. so does anything change for me?

By: callahan

callahan — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:21:24 +0000

open skype and then click:
tools—>options—>privacy(which is on the left)—>show advanced options—>clear history