SYNC CHAT HISTORY

Hi everyone, I've read almost all fo the threads here but I don't seem to find any answer for my dilemma. How can I sync in old chat history from my laptop Skype to my Android phone. I tried logging on in both devices and my contacts were all online but it still will not show up my old messages. I do have my main.db file backed up on my computer but how can I transfer that to my phone or will that even work? If anyone knows a hack or even via a third party app, please let me know. I really really need to have those chats.  Thanks!

History continues to work like it always has with the exception that Cloud-enabled accounts/chats have around 30 days of their history cached in the Cloud.  All history is still stored locally on a per device basis.  Besides the Cloud syncing there is always the possibility that some of the history from an adjacent device can sync to your current device however I would not count on that being consistent.  In the past only current P2P history was cached ( 12+ hours or so).  This may still be a drawback when using P2P created chats vs.  the newer cloud-enabled chats that are created.
The main.db located on the device contains your history.  If at any time you replace it, the previous history will be lost as it will only be contained in the old main.db file.  Skype provides no software to combine the history in old/new or multiple main.db files.  If you want to do that you can attempt to get that done using 3rd party software (like Skyperious).  I would suggest you make backups of any main.db files that you choose to experiment with.
Skyperiours 
https://suurjaak.github.io/Skyperious/

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