Chat History

Hello - I have Skype on my business MAC and personal laptop (PC) on both, I have selected the option for chat history to be set to never. However, I can still access history! Has anyone else encountered this and how can the setting be corrected to never save the chat please?
Regards,
Annette

I have this exact same issue. Has anybody figured out how to fix it?

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I currently have the iChat server up and running on a MacMini running OS X 10.6.4. I see in the iChat client on my MacBook Pro where it will load past messages when I open a chat with a buddy. I am also running a jabber client on my iPhone (IM+ is the iPhone app). What I am curious about is if there is a way to load chat history for the account, not just from the device.
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Tim,
I have turned on the logging feature inside of the iChat server, and I have seen all IMs being sent are saved.
So do you think this is more of a client side problem of not being able to sync from the Message Archive on the OS X Snow Leopard 10.64 iChat server? Meaning that if the IMs are being saved, then all that really needs to be done is to create a client that will access the server log and do a compare of its local saved history with the server saved history and then takes any missing IMs and adds to its local history log?
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thanks for your answer! We don't have IE11 installed, so we don't have this MS Patch on our systems :-(
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Hi all, I've looked it up and found numerous threads on this issue but still can't figure out my personal problem..
I'm looking to transfer skype chat history; videos, chat, etc, from my grandparents in India, to a drive for safekeeping. My parents use my skype to talk to them a lot and they want me to keep all of their messages and/or videos in a drive. In order to do this, I need to find the chat history..
I've looked through the "C:\Users\<windows_8_username>\AppData\Local\Packages
\Microsoft.SkypeApp\Localstate\<skype_name>" thing I found online. But for my computer, it stops at \appdata\local or even \appdata\roaming. There is no further directory inside those two files (Local/Roaming).
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It seems like I have an un-searchable issue with many hits returning that conversation history flat out doesn't work, which isn't the situation here...
The backend consists of Exchange 2007 with Lync server 2013. Clients (a mix of Lync 2010 and 2013, XP and 7 respectively) have no issues connecting and the chat history works fine from Outlook, however, on the client, conversation history is not displayed
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I've checked any addons on Outlook that sound as though they might be in any way affiliated with Lync and ensured they're ticked to no avail.
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Recent Windows convert here. I am a loyal user of Trillian, and one of the things I love about Trillian is that when a new chat window comes up, the log from the previous conversation is visible within it.
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I only know of a partial solution to this.
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in the past I used the Facebook Chat via the browser to send chat massages (IMs) to single people.
Now I connected to Facebook via Skype (6.20.0.104) and I see my Facebook contacts in Skype now.
So the connection works.
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Here's screenshot:
Where has "from the beginning" button gone?
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techfreak wrote:
Migrate a copy of the main.db file to another computer and see if it displays a beginning. If the problem follows the main.db file then it may have been corrupted at some time in the past that made it loose data or some tables. Corruption could still exist even without a main.corrupt. Even using some 3rd party software to view/alter the main.db file could have some adverse effects. I'd be curious to know in the existing setup whether you can get to 6 months then manually scroll up beyond that time.
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Hello, dmitry72, and welcome to the Skype Community!
Sorry you're having trouble doing such a simple task. Unfortunately, you are correct in your findings - unlike the desktop version of Skype, there's no way to simply clear your chat history in one swift motion other than clearing the data or uninstalling the app. You can, however, clear the chat history of a conversation by deleting it. The only downside to the workaround is the amount of time it would consume if you desired to remove every conversation.
Your feedback can change Skype, so do send the developers some using the app! They're listening, so you may send this (or take a chance that this gets noticed by developers) and other bright ideas you may have about Skype for Android. You might see some great changes in the upcoming versions!
The option to send feedback is within the Settings menu on the latest version of Skype.
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Hi and welcome to the Skype Community,
This is not depending on the Skype version to use, but whether you've kept your local Skype chat history database. This is the only way to store chat history beyond 30 days.
If you have installed Skype on a brand new Windows installation only the last 30 days of history will be synchronized from the cloud.
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