So the key is to open the Outlook client and delete the chats from the Conversation History 'folder'. But in my experience, it doesn't take effect. Skype for Business lets you find a previous conversation by browsing your conversation history or by searching in your past conversations with a Outlook opens and displays that contact’s conversations with you in the Conversation History folder. To track down the specific conversation, enter a term.
Lync for Mac 2011 You can save and view a text conversation in the Conversation History. In the Conversation History, text conversations are organized by contact name and then by date. All conversations that you save with a contact on a particular date are saved in a single log. When you save a conversation in Conversation History, only the text portion is saved. Audio and video aren't saved.
Do any of the following: Set preferences for saving all conversations Lync can save conversations automatically, never save conversations, or ask whether to save each conversation. Sign in to Lync. On the Lync menu, click Preferences, and then click History. Select the options that you want. To limit how long conversations are saved, click an option on the Delete all conversations pop-up menu.
Save a single conversation You can save a single conversation in the Conversation History even when you do not set up to save conversations automatically. In the conversation window, on the pop-up menu, click Save conversation.
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In the Save Active Conversation on Close dialog box, select one of the options for saving the conversation. View a saved conversation. Sign in to Lync and click a contact. On the Contact menu, click View Past Conversations. On the right side, click the date of the conversation.
Advertisement Skype chat history is stored in a database file called main.db. Skype’s desktop version history file location may be vary according to your operating system like Windows 8 / 8.1, Windows 7 or Windows XP. To find where is chat history file stored on your computer and how to transferred it to another computer, follow the steps below. Transfer Skype Chat History Step-1 Press Windows+R keys from keyboard to open Run window. Skype desktop version users (version that you download and install from Skype website) Type%AppData%/Skype in text-box and hit Enter.
Here in this windows open folder named as your Skype username. Step-1.1: Only for Skype App version users (version that is available in Window 8 and 8.1 or installed from Windows Store).
For Skype built-in app users. Skype chat history file location is different.
Press Windows+R keys, copy and paste the following command in the run window%HOMEPATH%/appdata/local/packages Here open the following folders: Microsoft.SkypeApp. LocalState.
In this folder you will find a folder with your Skype username open it. Step-2 Find a file with the name main or main.db, this is the main file of Skype chat history. Copy / backup it so you can transfer it to another computer. Step-3 Now go to your computer where you want to transfer chat history. Install Skype on it and log-in to Skype, the reason of logging into it is Skype needs to create some user specific folder. After successful log-in, sign-out from Skype and quit it. Step-4 Perform Step-1 or Steps-1.1 according to your Skype version.
Open folder named as your Skype username. Replace the main.db file with the file that you have transferred from previous computer in step-2.
Now log-in to your Skype and your will see all previous history is available. Skype desktop version screenshot Skype Chat history settings: If you want to clear all the chat history of Skype from computer or just want to keep history for a Week, Month, 3 mothes do the following steps. Open Skype window, click on Tools menu Options IM & SMS Show advanced options button. Click on drop-down menu as show below and select you desire settings.
Click on Clear history button to clear all your chat history for computer. If you are facing any trouble using this guide or successfully transfer Skype chat history please leave a comment below. A great start but not enough for me.
What if you want to merge two Skype accounts and conserve chat history? How do we merge the one main.db into the other? We can transfer contacts easily enough: And so now have the contacts in the new Skype account, but how do we conserve the chat history that we wish to conserve, transfer it to the new account as well, Without overwriting main.db, but importing into the new main.db the chat history from the old main.db.
In fact there is probably a rather simple SQL snippet that will do this, but it would be a dream if one were published as generating it is an effort in understanding the schema of main.db, designing a script to do the transfer, which would be a bothersome effort of reinventing the wheel if it had been done once already – hence a preference to see it published.
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