Where is the Skype chat history in Win 10, 2020?

Question

The online sources told me it is in a main.db file under my Skype username under the user folder. However, for the windowsapp win10 version of Skype, I cannot find either a folder named after my skypenmae, or a file called "main.db" in my entire drive.

Are there anything I did wrong?

Someone suggested that the chat history is now fully online, which is not true because I can still view my full skype chat history when offline.

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Update:

There is neither main.db nor skype.db in my folder. There is a "database.db" under the "\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.SkypeApp_kzf8qxf38zg5c\LocalCache\Roaming\Microsoft\Skype for Store\databases". The "LocalState" folder is empty in my case.

Answer 1

Skype definitely has a copy of chat history online, as well as on your local computer. You can log into Skype online and download your chat history.

https://secure.skype.com/en/data-export

On your local computer, newer Skype versions (Microsoft Skype for Windows 10) store the local chat history in a 'skype.db' database file. This location was posted in 2018, and may have updated since then, but it should be very similar if you look in the Packages directory.

%localappdata%\Packages\Microsoft.SkypeApp_kzf8qxf38zg5c\LocalState\<Skype Name>\skype.db

skype.db is a standard SQLite database file and can be opened by a suitable SQLite browser.

Microsoft Answers

You can use PowerShell to locate any files with the extension .db within a directory if you are having difficulty locating the file. Here is an example, run on the C:\Users directory, which might need to be changed to ProgramData or Program Files. As is, you can just paste this into PowerShell to check the Users folder.

Get-ChildItem -Path C:\Users -Recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue -Filter *.db | Where-Object { $_.Extension -eq '.db' }