Recovering old chat messages after a necessary del...

Ok, so...recently (as in the last few days) I had a problem where I could not log into skype due to a disk I/O error. That problem was solved, but to do so the customer service agent/person had to delete them--in this case deletion just moved the old folder containing them to the recycle bin. I was wondering if there was a way to recover/restore them without losing any new messages I have received since then--and would recovering/restoring them just bring back the disk error problem?

The I/O error is as a rule caused by corruption of Skype local setting files, but can also be caused by corruption of the main.db chat database file. If the last is the case, then restoring the corrupted main.db file will again cause the I/O error.
See e.g. this:
http://community.skype.com/t5/Windows-desktop-clie​nt/Skype-doesnt-launch-at-all/m-p/3707897

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