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Viewing the full Skype chat history

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I have Skype 2.8 on Mac OS X 10.5.8. Under the the chat menu is an option called "Recent Chats". This allows me to see logs of recent chats, but not of older ones. I know the older ones are stored because they are in . This file when put in a text editor has text chat information from all my previo…

Error Output

~/Library/Application Support/Skype/username/chatmsg256.dbb

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Fix for: Viewing the full Skype chat history

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Skype stores its chat history in a SQLite database: . You can use the command line tool to view the chat logs. Find out user names of your chat partners The following command in Terminal (I'm assuming you're using the shell) lists all your chat part…

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