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i am new to skype, was really looking for this thanks

Thanks for the post. It was realy usefull for me:P

I have skype set on “No history” but it still keeps each and every IM conversation, file transfers and calls etc. in history. So if I want to clear it I will have to go and click “clear history”. I could not figure out a way around this althoug all posts suggest that this setting should work. Not sure why it won’t work for me, though… Any ideas?

ok.. its really work.
thanks for the tip

i clear my Skype history from time to time, feels good to keep my privacy safe from others

is there a way to delete the chat history on individual contacts instead of everyone?

All i can say is Thank you

After going round in circles on the Skype Help Center for 3 hours, I was able to delete history in just under 6 seconds. Thanks for the really helpful screenshot!

Even if we delete the history, doesn’t the other party still have a record of our communication? Not sure whether this really protects privacy or not….

Hey
thank you….very much and print screen helped me to follow the steps easily.

Is there a way to delete pending chats so the receiver cannot read it? I sent something to someone I regret sending, and I don’t want them to get it.

very usefull, thnaks!

Thank you , this was useful

very usefull, thank you!!

Very useful thank u

Very helpful!!! thanks alot!!!!

thanks … ur information is really helpful and snapshot shows it so perfect thanks for the info

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it happens to me too, i disabled the chat history but its still showing up especially when i use other computer all of the chat history pops up when i signed it, its crazy .
Can someone explain this?

i do not want my skype id visible at the starting of skype .whn i sign in to skype my skype id is already stored there i just hv 2 typ pswrd .bt i do not want my skype 2 b stored.wht 2 do?/

good work, keep it up

I have been using skype for years and I have been deleting my history as said by you but there is a history tab which still keeps all your call history.

How do you get it to stop keeping your call history?

Hello~

I wanted to delete the history of skype log in users in my computer. Please help me how..
I’ve tried unstalling it hoping that the log in users history will disappear but I failed. When I re-install skype, the same log in users appear on my computer. what should I do?

thanks for the tip so none of us get busted with our wives and husbands!!! Got to love the internet!

Word of warning – I just used skype’s own clear history function under the advanced privacy settings and it does NOT clear the history on the other person’s computer – only your chat history – so now you have erased your conversation with that person, but they still have their copy (I know because I asked my contact if they saw any change – nope). Bottom line, skype SUCKS for privacy protection. There isn’t any!!! Skype needs to fix this, or those of us, like me, concerned with erasing all traces of a certain conversation need to STOP USING SKYPE with those contacts. This is a very unsettling situation…

“very upset user” … what protection is there on a phone? i can record anyone that calls me… grow up and don’t be so paranoid.

thanks!!

At whoever complains about privacy..

Do you realize that every chat or IM client can keep a history of what you’re writing, right? And that copy/pasting the text is just as easy, if you don’t have a direct way from the application?

If you’re sending your text to anyone, you’re agreeing that they will read it and possibly store it for private use (aka: keep their history).

Privacy comes into play when those people disclose your conversations without your agreement. That’s a totally different thing.

On a side note, if you ever wanted to have a better view of the history with a contact, you can type ” /htmlhistory ” in the conversation window, to convert it to html and open it in your browser.
This way, you can also save it before doing a full history clear if you want to keep it.

Take care,
WoLf

My bad, the /htmlhistory seems to not be working on skype 4. Yet another reason why to stick to the 3.8 series.

Thanks a lot!

Didn’t expect it to be that easy!!!

Does anyone know if the deleted chat history still can be seen by the other part?

previous i had skype 3. after i updated to 4.0 version. after updated my previous version history was not showing. if we can update history was cleared? and where the history was stored in skype.

previous i had skype 3.0 after i updated to 4.0 version. after updated my previous version history was not showing. if we can update history was cleared? and where the history was stored in skype.

thanks for the post! helped a lot

thanks so much…

thank you this helped a lot =)

Help! there is no privacy setting tab on my Eee Pc, asus linux 2.0 skype. What do I do now??

thanks dude…awesome

this is a great tip. i love it!!! thank you so so much. i will always come here to get tips on anything now!

very useful info….thanks a mil

thankkk you so much

Awesome! thanks!!

if I delete a skpye contact will the other person still be able to view the chat history on their computer? please answer..Thanks so much.

Of course, they can still see the chat on their side. Would you want them to be able to delete things on your computer? no. THAT would be a privacy concern. If you don’t want someone saving things you’ve said, don’t send them.

Thanks a lot for this tutorial, I’m a frequent skype user, and the chat logs were bogging down my computer. Sincere thanks.

Awesome dude…thanks a lot yar

it was great help thank u

thank you thank you thank you

HEY I WANT TO REMOVE THE NAME LIST FROM THE SKYPE LOGIN LIST IT SHOWS NO. OF NAMES THOSE HOW HAVE LOGED IN PREVIOUSELY CAN ANY ONE HELP

Hi, I would like to know, how can I clear my history of calls on skype to go…it is differente from that!Please, help!

Thanks to Pearl and to this site *(*

great work

wooo…so great thank you…

if u want to delete skype login id than u can go to c:\document and settings\user name folder\application data\skype\skype login name (which u want delete) and delete it………… thats finish

is there a way to delete the history from just 1 person in your list?

Brilliant!! C2C and no proof (: Lol

Thanks. dear i am so happy .

i heard a lot about this topic in the last few days and i imagine it might be true. Eventhough i think everyone is responsible for himself. No Offense, Just my opinion…

Thanks a million!!!! it looks really messy with all old conversations showing up now and then

lol, I try to remove them but when you log in on other computers, which you have never use em before, all chat log will be shown all one by one.

Stupid Skype

Thanks, this was perfect

I’m really thankfully about this post you did
>>How to delete chatting on Skype<<

I was talking some privacy things with my wife but after that we recognize the we can't delete our conversation and my nephews some times using our computer what I don't wont, to they see that…
SO THANKS

How does it work? I’ve cleared my chat history from my computer, does it mean that the chat history under my same account would also be cleared on my friend’s computer?

thanks a lot

Excellent tips. Thanks.

thank u muc.very helpful

Tnx, a lot !!!

That one was very usefull for me

In windows 7
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Goto -> C:\Users\{USER}\AppData\Roaming\Skype

and delete the folder with the username that you want not to appear again in Skype startup

Note: Here {USER} means the windows login username in which your currently working on.

Hope that helped..!

Ve fun.,

Hi5,
Santhosh M

Skype is NOT stupid, just the people wh use it. Of course it will not delete the other persons history, that will only happen if you ask them to or have direct access to their pc.
It’s called logical thinking

Hi, nice post

I have my skype history set to “no history” for quite some time now (at least a month). Had cleared history also on the same day that i changed my history settings. The other day when i logged in, i received as new around 80 old messages coming from most of my contacts. Some messages that showed up as “new”, were in fact 3 months old.

I had again cleared my history when it happened. I was worried that my account may have been compromised so as a precaution i changed my password.

Today, when i logged in, the same thing happened again.

Has anyone experienced something similar? Any ideas?

Thanks
Aris

this one work for me, deleting old messages in skype.

HOW TO REMOVE CHAT ON OTHER USER COMPUTER
You can remove or edit sent messages by right clicking on the message, then click edit/remove message.
By so doing, this message is also removed from the other persons computer.
They receive a notification saying “This message has been removed”
Note that you can only do this for messages not older than one hour.

Aris, I’m having the SAME issue! I clear the history each time I’m on if I don’t go back and check it seems to keep the history EVEN though I changed it to “no history” the no history function is not working for me. I have cleared the cookies, deleted the history manually with the button and change it to no history and still I find a history being kept. WTF! Also what really stinks is that if I nuke the history that I had with another friend next time they log on and haven’t cleared there history it then resends the FULL thing back! So I have it all over again. WTF! I like how google has a option for off record. Skype needs that asap.

What I like to know is if anyone can do a bulk history deletion on the iphone/itouch app? Right now it seems that one has to delete each call / conversation history manually. No option for removing ALL of the histories. Suggestion from anyone using the app?

Call History with Skype

You can NOT delete call history with Skype. You can hide the locally stored copy in a specific computer. The information is anyway preserved by the Skype Account, in central servers. This information is easily accessible for anyone, just a little bit computer savvy. The reasons for central storage are probably requirements from certain government agencies, not worth mentioning really.
Anyway, the savy user can ALWAYS retrieve any Skype call history.
Do not use Skype for anything that you feel uncomfortable to share with anyone else.

Best Regards
from burned user serving 2 to 5

thanx alot

Thanks for the nice post. It was realy usefull for me:P

Great Job:

Bundles of thanks

CHEERS !

Skype really needs to find a way to allow users to permanently hide chats and phone records on both the Skype application and Accounts.

I have two computers, one at the office and one at home. Both are set to “no history”, however, everytime I access my account from my home or office computer, many old chats keep appearing on my screen and although I “Clear history”, old chats still appear if I logon to my Skype through another computer.

Thanks alot sir for ur given useful information,

Really good guidance. Thank you

dis is fckin shit mahn nyc nyc thanx fr dis help…:p

Thank you so much. It was well explained and easy to do. Thank you.

Thanks muchooooo all i needed

Just to add on that removing chat history or setting it to “no history” DOES NOT work if you are using multiple devices. Which is s*it really!

Thanks.!!!

Im just wondering is there any way that i can delete my conversations on a specific time.?

like for example i want to delete may conversations today with my Brother.
is there any way that i can delete my conversation with my brother without deleting my other Conversation with other people.?

Thank you very much

Good Screen Shot

Its a good help for all Skype users

Thanks this is really helpful. I feel good now that I know i can keep my conversations private.

this method does NOT delete anything permanently. The only way to do that is to alter the database file: “main.db” using a SQL program. It is located in your c:doucments and settings\user\application data\skype\username\ folder. The records are permanently stored in your Skype unless you delete or alter this DB file, or uninstall/delete the program altogether and all related files. It IS POSSIBLE though, for those people on the net saying you can’t do it. And you can pick and choose what you want to delete. It isn’t really very hard, SQLLite does a bang up job and doesn’t take much to get used to using.

if you think that this deletes anything, you are wrong… don’t beleive it, just go back into Skype and click View / Show Hidden Conversations… they will ALWAYS come back no matter how many times you adjust the Privacy settings and reboot, etc. The ONLY way is to delete the database file in my previous post, or for those of you looking to delete specific histories, you MUST alter the database file manually.

i ‘m new to skype, the first time i chat with someone i recently met online, i read some of his chats with other women that he made a few days ago, is this normal? Is it normal to see his conversations with other people? The chats even included those that should only be between two people or considered confidential.
Why is skype allowing it? There were also hate messages that apparently were made by a woman who hated him so much for womanizing, it kept popping up and it was showing that the message was sent by the person I was chatting with.

that was much neede info

THANK YOU!!!

thank you

they should make it a much easier option but thank you for sharing!

if you do this instruction yes it will delete your your IM messages but y it always happen to me when i chat in my PC in my relative house then when i got home il open my laptop and open the skype. my conversation i just delete in the PC in my relatives house are still there in detailed… so it mean only in the PC inself they will delete the conversation but not in other PC it will stil remain the same.. so its useless….. can you try to tell us wat to do

if you do this instruction yes it will delete your your IM messages but y it always happen to me when i chat in my PC in my relative house then when i got home il open my laptop and open the skype. my conversation i just delete in the PC in my relatives house are still there in detailed… so it mean only in the PC inself they will delete the conversation but not in other PC it will stil remain the same.. so its useless….. can you try to tell us wat to do

How to delete an specific conversation with soembody?

THANKS! Exactly what I was looking for!

THANKS! Exactly what I was looking for!

i did exactly the instructions and it clear the call history…but when you click the Account, it will bring you to the Account page – all the call history is still there, is there a way to clear those? Help please. Thanks

tanks

thanks you! it very helpful

Thanks exactly what I was looking for…

How do you erase the chat history completely? I mean from all computers and the other persons chat. I dont want to use Skype anymore. I didnt realize that anyone I chat with has those chats permanently. Is it possible to erase ALL history?

thanks a lot i did it .thanks for the very easy tip

There’s a tool called Skypex that will allow you to delete specific messages, or entire conversations from your computer ( they may still show up if you login to your account from another computer).  You can find the beta version here: http://bryancockerham.com/skypex-delete-skype-messages.php.  I don’t think it works for mac yet, but it worked fine on my PC.  

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