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[Christopher]

Toremove instant messages or delete or clear conversations:

Learn more abouthow to remove an instant message or delete or clear a conversation.

To export your messages and media from chat:

You will need to check back periodically to theexport pageon the status of your export, which you can see at the top of the page underAvailable Exports. A link to download your files will also appear there when they are available to download.

Typetar -xvfYOURFILENAME_export.tar, replacing YOURFILENAME with the name of your exported file which usually follows the pattern 8_skypename_export.tar or 8_live_skypename_export.tar and then pressEnter.

After the command completes, you will see your extracted messages file namedmessages.jsonfile in the directory. We recommend downloading the fileviewerto make is easier to read your conversation history.

To extract the .tar file on Mac:

Browse to the .tar file you downloaded and open the file. Mac has built-in .tar support.

To extract the Tar file on older Windows operating systems:

You may need athird party applicationto open the .tar file.

Note: This link is provided for your convenience and is not an endorsement of any particular third party tool. Ensure that any software you choose to download is from a trusted source.

To learn how to export a list of your Skype contacts, please visitHow do I export a list of my Skype contacts?

To learn how to delete a Skype contact, please visitHow do I delete a contact in Skype?

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I would like to read my skype message archive outside of the Skype app. And be able to export it in some sort (other than copy-paste it from my messages) as far i can figure skype only provides 30 days or archives.

B. The harder, but naturally more flexible way, is to install a SQLite Browser, such as this one, and export the messages yourself. You can see some information on how to do that by looking at this article, or you could also search for other similar articles (AlexS' answer also provides clues). You will need some experience with SQL to use this option.

I had the same problem with Skype history,Every body is looking to play around these history for many reasons.I would like to share my experience with you, since I'm not expert but this may help somebody.

Skype log view reads skype files u can also simly copy all. Open ur skype chat window to the person u want the istory on make sure the display is set to show from the beginning and select all tohighlight copy and past to an text editor.

Corporations and other organizations are subject to an increasing number of industry and government regulations that require the retention of specific types of communications. If your organization has such requirements, you can use archiving in Skype for Business Server to archive instant messaging (IM) and conferencing (meeting) communications to help support some of your compliance requirements.

Archiving agents. Archiving agents (also known as unified data collection agents) are installed and activated automatically on every Enterprise Edition Front End pool and Standard Edition Server. Although archiving agents are activated automatically, no messages are actually captured until archiving is enabled and appropriately configured. By default, archiving is disabled.

Archiving data storage. Data storage for Skype for Business Server can be implemented as Skype for Business Server SQL Server databases, or, if you have an Exchange deployment, integrated with Exchange storage.

Exchange storage. If you have an Exchange deployment, you can integrate Skype for Business Server and Exchange archiving so that your Skype for Business Server and Exchange archived data are stored together in Exchange. If you enable the Microsoft Exchange integration option, user mailboxes homed on the Exchange Server use Exchange storage for archived data, but only if the mailboxes have been put on In-Place Hold. By default, Microsoft Exchange integration is not enabled.

Skype for Business Server storage. If you have users who are not homed on Exchange or who have not had their mailboxes put on In-Place Hold, or if you don't want to use Microsoft Exchange integration for any or all users in your deployment, you can deploy Skype for Business Server Archiving databases using SQL Server.

When to deploy archiving. You can deploy archiving as part of your initial Skype for Business Server deployment, or you can add it to an existing deployment. To use Skype for Business Server archiving storage (SQL Server databases), you use Topology Builder to add the databases to your topology, and then publish the topology again. If all your users are homed on Exchange and have their mailboxes put on In-Place Hold, you do not have to update your topology, but only need to enable Microsoft Exchange integration to store archived data in Exchange.

Which sites and users in the organization require archiving. You can configure archiving settings for your entire organization and, optionally, for specific sites, pools, users, and user groups.

What content should be archived. Whether you specify archiving at the global level or for specific sites and users, at each of these levels, you specify whether to enable the following types of content:

Skype for Business Server also does not archive Persistent Chat conversations. To archive Persistent Chat conversations, you must enable and configure the Compliance service, which is a component that can be deployed with Persistent Chat Server. For details, see Plan for Persistent Chat Server in Skype for Business Server 2015.

Persistent chat is available in Skype for Business Server 2015 but is no longer supported in Skype for Business Server 2019. The same functionality is available in Teams. For more information, see Getting started with your Microsoft Teams upgrade. If you need to use Persistent chat, your choices are to either migrate users requiring this functionality to Teams, or to continue using Skype for Business Server 2015.

How long archived materials should be retained. The Archiving database is not intended for long-term retention, and Skype for Business Server does not provide an e-discovery (search) solution for archived data, so data needs to be moved to other storage. Skype for Business Server provides a session export tool that you can use to export archived data, and which creates searchable transcripts of the archived data.

For the global policy, and for each site and user policy that you create, you can specify when to purge archived and exported data. For more information about purging data, see Manage purging of archived data in Skype for Business Server. For more information about using the session export tool, see Export archived data in Skype for Business Server.

Whether to archive internal or external communications. You can enable archiving for internal communications (communications between internal users), external communications (communications that include at least one user outside your internal network), or both. You can specify these options for your entire organization, or you can specify them for specific sites and pools. By default, neither option is enabled.

Controlling archiving for internal or external communications is only available for Skype for Business Policy. For Exchange-integrated archiving, both internal and external communications are either archived or not archived.

Whether to implement critical mode. If archiving is a requirement for your organization, configuring critical mode will block IM and conferencing sessions in the event of a Skype for Business Server failure that would prevent archiving. For example:

An unavailable file share or a problem with the storage service. In this case, all active conferences hosted in the pool at the time of failure are switched to restricted mode and new conferences cannot be activated.

Archiving is automatically installed on each Front End Server when you deploy the server, but archiving is not enabled until you configure it. How you configure archiving is determined by how you deploy it. You can deploy archiving in one of the following ways:

If you implement both Skype for Business Server Archiving databases and enable Microsoft Exchange integration, Exchange policies override Skype for Business Server archiving policies, but only for users who are homed on Exchange and have had their mailboxes put on In-Place Hold. Skype for Business archiving depends on the Microsoft Exchange In-Place Hold policy.

If you deploy archiving for one Front End pool or Standard Edition Server, you should enable it for all other Front End pools and Standard Edition servers in your deployment. If archiving is not enabled on the pool where a conversation or meeting is hosted, all conference data may not be archived. Archiving will still work for IM messages, but conferencing content and events may not be archived.

To enable delegation of administrative tasks while maintaining your organization's security standards, Skype for Business Server uses role-based access control (RBAC). With RBAC, administrative privilege is granted by assigning users to predefined administrative roles. To configure Skype for Business archiving policies and configurations, the user must be assigned to the CsArchivingAdministrator role (unless the configuration is done directly on the server where archiving is deployed, instead of remotely from another computer). For a list of the user rights, permissions, and roles required for archiving deployment, see Deploy archiving for Skype for Business Server.

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