Skype chat history contains all of your instant messages whatever you sent/received from your contacts and also keeps calls records you made or received from others. Now, if you have a plan to change your mac, and want to transfer your Skype chat history from your old Mac to new Mac, then definitely you need to make a copy of Skype history file first. So, here you find instructions to transfer Skype chat history between Mac computers or from Mac to PC.
See also: Transfer files from OS X Mavericks to Windows 8
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- Mar 23, 2020 Locate Skype in Your Applications Folder Launch Skype for Mac by opening the Launchpad in your Mac Dock. Find the Skype app icon and click it. Alternatively, find the Skype for Mac app by going into your Applications folder.
- Jun 12, 2015 It's possible the Skype preference file in your User's Library./Preferences folder is corrupt. Delete the com.skype.skype.plist. Log out under the Apple in the Menu bar. Open Skype and add password. It will be saved in a new plist file.Show User's Library. The User's Library folder is hidden by default. To unhide: Select the Finder in the Dock.
- Simply ask Alexa to call any of your Skype contacts or read a phone number out loud to call it. Set up Skype on Alexa Skype calling with Alexa is currently available in the US, the UK, Canada, India, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico and Spain.
Mar 29, 2019 You can also access the Library folder by opening Spotlight and typing in the path to the Library folder. The path is /Users/name/Library where name is your Mac's username.
- First we find chat history folder location on Mac.
- Setup Skype on our new Mac and transfer chat history file.
- You will also see how to transfer history from Mac to PC.
Locate Skype Chat History on Mac
Step-1
Click on “Finder” icon from the dock of your Mac. From the menu, navigate through “Go” > “Home”.
Step-2
Go through the folders “Library” > “Application Support” > “Skype”. Then open the folder with your Skype name and from there access the file “main.db” and copy/backup it on your computer.
Note: You can not normally open this main.db file, but it contains all of your Skype chat history.
Transfer Skype History to New Mac
Step-3
To transfer Skype chat history from your old Mac to new Mac, first of all you need to get login to your Skype on your new Mac (the Mac on which you want to transfer your chat history). Its required because when a user first time login to Skype on a new machine, Skype creates some user specific folders, which are used to keep a user’s Skype chat history. Anyways, after login to Skype just logout.
Step-4
Now, you have to copy “main.db” file from source Mac computer and paste it in the same Skype user folder on new Mac, by going through the same folders path written in steps 1,2.
Step-5
Skype Folder Location Windows 10
Login to Skype on your new Mac and see you will find all of your Skype Chat history, whatever you have on your old Mac computer.
Transfer Skype History from Mac to PC
Once you have located the main.db file on your Mac (OS X Mavericks, Lion, Leopard, Snow Leopard) copy this history file on a portable device for transferring it to your PC.
Click the Other Library button, navigate to the external hard drive that now houses your library file, select it and click Open. Photos app on mac says closing library.
Skype Library Folder Mac Version
Now, on your PC that running one of the following Windows operating systems, Windows 8 / 8.1, Windows 7, XP, Vista, you need to find Skype history folder location.
You can follow this guide to find the location of the Skype chat history folder on Windows and simply copy the chat history file (main.db) here.
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