By default, Skype keeps a log of your conversations with your contacts on its cloud servers, so your history can be synced across devices. While Skype features the ability to delete all history with all contacts, it doesn't support deleting history with individual contacts, as of publication.
Skype's history settings, as well as the deletion option, are located in the Privacy settings menu of Skype's general options.
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Step 1
Sign into your Skype account and click **Skype**, followed by **Privacy** to open the Skype options menu on the Privacy tab.
Step 2
Click the **Show Advanced Options** button to expand the options on the Privacy tab. This expands the Advanced Options menu, which offers a lot of different options for how you receive IMs, calls and other messages and how long Skype stores chat history.
Step 3
Click the **Clear History** button near the **Keep History** drop-down.
Step 4
Click the **Delete** button in the **Delete History** dialog to confirm deleting your history. Depending on how much history is deleted, it may take several seconds to completely clear.
Click **Save** or **Cancel** to close the Options menu. Choose **Save** if you've changed any other settings.
Tips
- Cleaning out your chat history frequently can be useful if you use Skype on several devices and/or computers and switch between them frequently. Each time you sign into Skype on a different device, it has to load all previous messages from your other devices, which can be time-consuming.
- If you think you might need to restore your history in the future, then do the following before deleting your history: Press 'Windows-R' or select 'Run' from the start menu, and then enter '%appdata%Skype' without quotes to open the Skype AppData folder. Select the folder with your Skype name, copy the 'main.db' file inside and paste it into another folder elsewhere on your computer. When you need to restore, just paste this file back into its original folder.
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Skype enables you to provide technical support to your customers and collaborate with your employees via instant messages, audio calls and video calls. Your recent instant messages are displayed in the Recent tab, next to Contacts, so anyone can see them. Skype does not allow you to delete an entire conversation, but you can delete individual messages or hide the entire conversation. You can also delete the entire Skype chat history, but this action deletes all your conversations.
Deleting Individual Messages
Step 1
Launch Skype, log in to your account and click the 'Recent' tab next to contact to view your recent conversations.
Step 2
Click the contact in the left pane to view the conversation in the right pane.
Step 3
Right-click one of the messages and choose 'Remove Message' from the context menu.
Step 4
Check the 'Do not ask me again' box to avoid confirming the action every time and click the 'Remove' button to confirm the action.
Step 5
Remove each message until you delete the entire conversation.
Step 1
Log in to your Skype account and click the 'Recent' tab next to Contacts to view recent conversations.
Step 2
Click the contact in the left pane to view the recent conversation in the right pane.
Step 3
Right-click the contact and choose 'Hide conversation' from the context menu.
Step 4
Click 'OK' to confirm the action and hide the entire conversation from the Recent tab. You can check the 'Don't show this message' box to avoid confirming the action every time you hide a conversation.
Tips
- Click 'View' and choose 'Show Hidden Conversations' from the menu to view the hidden conversations.
- Click 'Skype,' choose 'Privacy' from the menu and then click the 'Clear history' button in the Keep History For section to delete the entire Skype chat history.