- Skype Chat History File
- How To Download Skype Chat History Mac Computer
- How To Download Skype On Laptop
Skype chat history contains all of your instant messages whatever you sent/received from your contacts and also keeps calls records you made or received from others. Now, if you have a plan to change your mac, and want to transfer your Skype chat history from your old Mac to new Mac, then definitely you need to make a copy of Skype history file first. So, here you find instructions to transfer Skype chat history between Mac computers or from Mac to PC.
Where to download Skype Classic Files: (This was given to me from a Microsoft employee. Its hosted on OneDrive (Microsoft)). Aug 12, 2020 NOTE: Next time you start Skype, the app may sync and download about 30 days of recent chat and call history from Skype Cloud servers on your PC. However, the problem can be resolved by scheduling automatic eraser task. For that, you would need to use a file eraser tool, as discussed below in the secure erase method in this post. Dec 02, 2013 Login to Skype on your new Mac and see you will find all of your Skype Chat history, whatever you have on your old Mac computer. Transfer Skype History from Mac to PC Once you have located the main.db file on your Mac (OS X Mavericks, Lion, Leopard, Snow Leopard) copy this history file on a portable device for transferring it to your PC. Go to the Skype chat that you want to search. To search: on Windows, Mac, Linux, Web and Windows 10 - Select the Find button under the chat header. You can also access the find feature from the message box using the key combination Ctrl + F on Windows desktop or Command + F on Mac.; on Android (6.0+), iPhone and iPad - Tap the chat header and tap Search in conversation.
See also: Transfer files from OS X Mavericks to Windows 8
Snapshot of the guide:
- First we find chat history folder location on Mac.
- Setup Skype on our new Mac and transfer chat history file.
- You will also see how to transfer history from Mac to PC.
Locate Skype Chat History on Mac
Step-1
Click on “Finder” icon from the dock of your Mac. From the menu, navigate through “Go” > “Home”.
Step-2
Skype Chat History File
Go through the folders “Library” > “Application Support” > “Skype”. Then open the folder with your Skype name and from there access the file “main.db” and copy/backup it on your computer.
Note: You can not normally open this main.db file, but it contains all of your Skype chat history.
Transfer Skype History to New Mac
Step-3
How To Download Skype Chat History Mac Computer
To transfer Skype chat history from your old Mac to new Mac, first of all you need to get login to your Skype on your new Mac (the Mac on which you want to transfer your chat history). Its required because when a user first time login to Skype on a new machine, Skype creates some user specific folders, which are used to keep a user’s Skype chat history. Anyways, after login to Skype just logout.
Step-4
Now, you have to copy “main.db” file from source Mac computer and paste it in the same Skype user folder on new Mac, by going through the same folders path written in steps 1,2.
Step-5
Login to Skype on your new Mac and see you will find all of your Skype Chat history, whatever you have on your old Mac computer.
How To Download Skype On Laptop
Transfer Skype History from Mac to PC
Once you have located the main.db file on your Mac (OS X Mavericks, Lion, Leopard, Snow Leopard) copy this history file on a portable device for transferring it to your PC.
Now, on your PC that running one of the following Windows operating systems, Windows 8 / 8.1, Windows 7, XP, Vista, you need to find Skype history folder location.
You can follow this guide to find the location of the Skype chat history folder on Windows and simply copy the chat history file (main.db) here.
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