The entire task is very simple and takes little time to finish. It is possible to delete conversations for all history or selected contacts only, specify the start and end time to take into account when cleaning history or choose the current day, previous day, week or month (for the selected contacts option), as well as to create backups in case you change your mind and want to restore the conversations at a later time. Set filters and configure other intuitive settings You can get started by indicating a Skype account.
The GUI is user-friendly, based on a wizard-like window where you have to follow a few simple steps to clear Skype history in no time. Clear-cut interface and step-by-step options Worth taking into account is that it does not add new entries to the Windows registry or Start menu, leaving no traces behind after its removal. Another option is to save Delete Skype History to a USB flash disk or similar storage unit, in order to run it on any PC effortlessly, as long as it has Skype installed. Since installation is not a prerequisite, you can drop extract the program files to any part of the hard disk and just click the executable to run. The tool comes packed with an intuitive set of options that can be easily tweaked by anyone, even users with no previous experience in such tools. However, hacking up a small Python parser according to what is known about the format, along with a minimalistic GUI is a single evening's exercise, and I happened to be in the mood for some random coding.This is the standard edition of Delete Skype History, a small-sized and portable piece of software with a pretty self-explanatory name: it can delete Skype history when it comes to conversations, calls and file transfers. Unfortunately, the *.dat files are in some undocumented binary format, and the only tool I found for reading those lacks in features. Indeed, there is a bunch of *.dat files in the chatsync subdirectory of the Skype's profile, which preserve all messages along with all their edits or deletions. I found that curious and decided to take a closer look. In addition, Dominique made a remark that Skype does not really delete the messages that are marked as "removed" in the chat window. It turns out, if you obtain a person's Skype profile directory, you will be able to log in as him without the need to know the password. Yesterday I happened to attend a discussion about the security and privacy of information stored locally in Skype and Thunderbird profiles. In other words - you would only recover "removed" messages if you are running older version of Skype (or these messages were sent at the time you were using that older version). Either these versions stopped saving removed messages altogether, or they are doing it in a novel manner not recognized by the tool. Update from year 2017: The tool described in this post DOES NOT WORK with recent versions of Skype.
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