Skype For Mac Snow Leopard

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.

See also: Transfer files from OS X Mavericks to Windows 8

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.

Other than the Name/IDs nothing is centralised about Skype. Last time I ran it was in Leopard. MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8) Mac OS X (10.6.8).
Aug 31, 2004 Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) (Intel), X 10.7 (Lion) (Intel) Skype 5.3.0.1074. Skype is compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 (2.6.0.151), 10.5 (2.8), 10.5.8.
For reference, Apple's OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard requires only that a Mac have an Intel processor to run, meaning machines that are absolutely unable to run Skype under the new policy are some eight.
Skype 2.8, with hot fixes for Mac OS X 10.6, is available for your downloading pleasure. It's a micro update of the summertime release of Skype 2.8; the version number is now up to 2.8.0.722.

Locate Skype Chat History on Mac

However, to direct the users of 10.6.8 to a web version of Skype - which BTW I tested and is awful - is an unprofessional and unsatisfactory answer to the problem faced by the huge amount of Mac users that stayed with Snow Leopard because of its reliability. This seem to me closer to an insult than to a solution.

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

Once you have located the main.db file on your Mac (OS X Mavericks, Lion, Leopard, Snow Leopard) copy this history file on a portable device for transferring it to your PC.