Comments on: Skype Chat History

By: duckyvideos

duckyvideos — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:10:22 +0000

Thank you

By: bradley Q

bradley Q — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 23:32:14 +0000

To save for one contact, type this in your convo to the specific person:

/history

Then select all, copy, and paste. /htmlhistory used to work and open it up in a new tab on your web browser…but stopped working.

I don’t think this is scary at all, unless you have something to hide amongst the people who are on your computer. I’m glad that this is the default. So many people have told me phone numbers and addresses that I have to end up looking through the history for. Also, I’ve had lots of intriguing conversations that I’m glad still exist.

If you want to back up your files, open up command prompt (search how for your Windows version). Then type this:

cd %appdata%
xcopy Skype C:\skype_backup_folder\ /e /i /h /-y

Or, copy and paste this into a file named “backup_skype.bat”. Only use this if you feel comfortable with it. Then whenever you want to backup, just double click backup_skype.bat.

xcopy %appdata%\Skype C:\skype_backup_folder\ /d /e /i /h /y

By: moose

moose — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:47:49 +0000

Hi..
basically i had a skype account on my old computer, i deleted all my conversation history… i changed computer and i waswondering if there is ANY way possible of retrieving it as it has old contacts ad so on.. if anyone could help that would be amazing, thanks! =]

By: chat

chat — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:56:47 +0000

thank you

By: mona

mona — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 03:56:56 +0000

I am not able to see old messages on right clicking a contact for ‘view old messages’ . the tools>options>… is well set.

By: SWE

SWE — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 03:11:10 +0000

how can i see my chat history from another pc?!!when i want to review my chat in work from home it doesnt show??so how can i do that?any help plese

By: Snype

Snype — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 06:14:26 +0000

I share a skype login with my husband - I have set the privacy to ‘no history’ on my computer and so there is no history visible. But when he has skype open my last chat with a friend is still there for all to see. The privacy setting does NOT delete the chat, it just hides it from your view and creates a false sense of security.

Also on ‘no history’ - I just opened Skype and there was a message waiting for me, but before I could read it Skype decided to upgrade. Then it shut down and required a login again. The waiting message was no longer available when I logged back in, it seems to have been deleted from history when Skype needed to restart.

By: Buckaroo

Buckaroo — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 18:29:25 +0000

It’s funny that everyone thinks you are safe if you just delete the chat history from within skype. Don’t be lulled into false security. You need to go into C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\Skype and delete the backups of your convos there too. Especially if the person you are hiding whatever you are hiding it from is computer savvy.

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 17 May 2010 23:32:53 +0000

how do you do it????? HI!!!!!

By: Nisha

Nisha — Thu, 13 May 2010 08:41:44 +0000

Hello,

I want to check a very important chat history with a contact in my contact list. but when i click on chat history, all I see is a blank chat window. though some of the chat histories am able to retrieve. Does formatting the system delete chat history. If yes, is there anyway to get the history back.

Any help will be highly appreciated.