Search computer for histories
The product allows you to search a whole hard drive for profiles of all supported Skype versions:
All drives or particular ones may be selected
You can select a particular folder to search through
It is possible to manually select a history to analyze
Analyze found histories
The product does all the analysis with two mouse clicks:
No password required
You do not have to be logged under a history owner
Explore extracted histories
The product shows extracted messages in a user-friendly form as follows:
Within the user interface you can:
See all available histories and their extraction status
See all contacts belonging to a profile
See all conversations with a selected contact
Sort by time, message direction, message text
Apply filtering
Search history. Do simple searches through history and advanced searches using a file with a set of words to look for. Experienced users can take advantage of searching by regular expressions, which is ideal when searching for templates or phrases with fuzzy structure
Export history
After completing history extraction you can export history of interest in a readable format. The product allows you to:
Export history to plain text, HTML, XML and also to CSV format which is good for exploring data within powerful Microsoft Excel product
Limit exported histories to selected dates and contacts
Limit exported histories to selected chat messages
Split huge histories into separate files, broken by contact
The report is independent of your computer and can be burned onto a CD and given away, if needed.
Skype support
The following Skype versions are supported:
Skype 2 - chat history only
Skype 3 - chat, call and voicemail history
Skype 4 - chat, call, voicemail and SMS history
Conference chats are not yet supported
What if you have all your history deleted?
If one has all Skype history files (.dbb or .db) deleted, is it possible to recover anything? Sometimes it is! If your Skype account still has a chatsync subfolder inside, some part of your history can be restored. Chatsync history retrieval is supported by the Professional version of this tool (Belkasoft Skype Analyzer Pro).
