I have a lot of history in Skype v 4.2, but now it is deprecated cause of "cloud" conversations in new Skype versions. Now I installed Skype 4.3.0.37-1 on Ubuntu 14.04 (and my co-worker on his Debian 7) and I wondered I loss all history before 20th may 2014. How can I to integrate old history (I backuped ~/.Skype folder) to new Skype?
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Did you delete the old skype folder? Maybe Skype now is in .skype instead of .Skype?– davidbaumannJun 18, 2014 at 15:33
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I renamed it. No, it creates .Skype folder too.– Guy FawkesJun 18, 2014 at 15:42
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You can try merging two databases with Skyperious.
Now, Skype might refuse to start due to malformed old messages. Open terminal, intall sqlite3 if necessary and:
sqlite3 ~/.Skype/[username]/main.db
> UPDATE Messages SET body_xml=substr(body_xml,instr(body_xml,'<files')) WHERE type=68 AND body_xml LIKE 'posted%';
> UPDATE Messages SET body_xml=substr(body_xml,instr(body_xml,'<files')) WHERE type=68 AND body_xml LIKE 'sent file%';
> .quit
If it still does not start (very likely if you are using non-English version of Skype), you can try running following query in sqlite3 and look through results to find other types of entries worth fixing:
SELECT Messages SET body_xml=substr(body_xml,instr(body_xml,'<files')) WHERE type=68
I restored the history of past chat. Steps are given below:
- Before installing new skype take backup of old skype folder from your home location. Folder is named as .Skype and rename it to .Skype.old
- Install the new skype. It will create new folder named .Skype
- Now visit your backup folder. i.e .Skype.old and there will be the folder having name as your skype username. Copy this folder and paste into .Skype folder.
- Restart your skype and your chat history will be restored.
