Skype Library Folder Mac

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.

Skype for Business 2016 for Mac In the Finder menu, click Go, then Go to Folder. Type /Library and press Go Delete the following files. Dec 20, 2018 In the pop-up menu, select Show Library Folder Your user library instantly populates in your user folder; Unhide Folders to See User Library and a Heck of A Lot More! Another command we can leverage is the Unhide Keystroke of Command+Shift+Period. This action makes any hidden files or folders visible in your Finder, including the user library. Mar 23, 2020 Locate Skype in Your Applications Folder Launch Skype for Mac by opening the Launchpad in your Mac Dock. Find the Skype app icon and click it. Alternatively, find the Skype for Mac app by going into your Applications folder. Jan 12, 2020 With either the desktop or a Finder window as the frontmost application, hold down the option key and select the Go menu. The Library folder will be listed as one of the items in the Go menu. Select Library and a Finder window will open showing the contents of the Library folder. Simply ask Alexa to call any of your Skype contacts or read a phone number out loud to call it. Set up Skype on Alexa. Skype calling with Alexa is currently available in the US, the UK, Canada, India, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico and Spain. This feature will be coming soon to Japan.

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Snapshot of the guide:

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