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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

Snapshot of the guide:

Mac Outlook version 15.28 or later is required. Skype for Business must be running. Same user account needs to be signed into Outlook and Skype for Business. If the issue still exists, I would like to confirm the following information: Can you find the conversation history in the chat Window in Skype for Business for Mac. To manage Skype video calls recording on your Mac, you can also use the buttons in the call recorder control panel. When the recording stops, your Skype call video will be automatically saved in MKV format to the default folder on your hard drive and open in a preview window. Click the “Skype” tab from the menu bar at the top of your screen, followed by “Preferences” from the context menu to setup your audio and video preferences before placing a call. Click the “Audio/Video” tab. Select a microphone, speakers, and camera you would like to use using the drop down menus. Recently Microsoft released a new update for Skype for Mac which bumped the app to v8.52.0.145. The latest update brought features like the ability to share a contact with someone in your contact list. Unfortunately, it also broke screen sharing on Skype for Mac users. According to a thread on Microsoft Answers Community forum, users.

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

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