How to See Skype Messages After They're Removed

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While Skype displays only recent messages by default, you can view older interactions by selecting View Old Messages from the Conversations menu. Alternatively, see messages you deleted from a conversation by using a free program to read the contents of the Skype database file.

See Older Messages

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To display older messages, open the Conversation menu and hover your cursor over View Old Messages. From the fly-out menu, select Yesterday, 7 Days or 30 Days, depending on how far back you want to go.

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See Messages You Deleted

Removing messages in Skype hides those interactions from view but does not delete them from the program's database file.

Step 1

Download and install Skyperious, SkypeLogView or Skype Log Viewer. These free applications are designed to open and read the contents of Skype's database file.

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Step 2

Launch the application you just installed and open the main.db file located in the following directory:

C:\Users\YourWindowsUsername\AppData\Roaming\Skype\YourSkypeUsername

Step 3

Use the application's browser to locate the conversation that contains the messages you deleted.

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