If Skype is installed on your system, SkypeLogView automatically detect the last used account, and loads the logs from it. You can select to view the logs of another account by using the 'Select Logs Folder' option. After you loaded the right logs, you can select one or more items from the list, and then save them to text/csv/html/xml file. Your Skype conversation history keeps a record of all the instant messages, phone calls, SMS messages, video calls, file transfers and voice messages you send and receive from your Skype account. The software records the full content of all text-based messages, along. SkypeLogView is a very useful program that can help users monitor all their Skype calls and messages for documentation purposes. It can be used by anyone because of its simple and neat interface. It can be used by anyone because of its simple and neat interface. Free online calls, messaging, affordable international calling to mobiles or landlines and instant online meetings on Skype.

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If your failure scenario involves a Skype for Business desktop client as the remote endpoint in a chat conversation or AV call, then you should include the logs from the desktop client in your error report.You can view the desktop client logs on your own, but we haven't documented the logging format so you probably won't find resources to make sense of them. Instead, collect the logs and submit them with your bug report.

Logs available for the Skype for Business desktop client

There are two types of logs available from the desktop client:

.UccApilog files contain general client usage information
.etl files contain media-specific log information

For any bugs related to Audio/Video, please attach both log types if possible. For bugs not related to Audio/Video, the .UccApilog files should be sufficient.

Collecting logs from a Skype for Business desktop client

On a Windows machine, the logs for a Skype for business desktop client will be located in the following directory:

%LOCALAPPDATA%MicrosoftOffice16.0LyncTracing

The .UccApilog files will have names that look like this:

Lync-UccApi-[[n]].UccApilog where [[n]]should be replaced by a number 0-2.

The .etl media log files will have names that look like this:

Lync-16.0.6965.5305-Office-x86ship-U.etl

On a Mac, the logs are in a similar directory within the root directory where the desktop client is installed.

After reproducing the issue and closing the client, navigate to this directory and select the log file(s) with the most recent timestamp(s). This is the file you should submit with any bug report.

Skype Log Viewer

Latest version

Released:

Parser and GUI viewer of chatsync/*.dat files from the Skype profile directory

Project description

Skype stores conversations locally in two places. One is a SQLite database file, for which there are several convenient viewers out there.Another is a set of dat files in the chatsync subdirectory of the profile. The latter contain, among other things, the “removed” messagesalong with all the edits. Unfortunately, the format of those dat files does not seem to be documented anywhere, and the readers are scarce.

The package contains a crude file format parser for the dat files in the chatsync directory, created based on the hints,given by user kmn in this discussion.

As the format specification used is not official and incomplete, the parser is limited in what it can do.It may fail on some files, and on other files will only be able to extract messages partially.

In addition, the package contains a simple wx-based GUI tool for searching the log files visually.

Installation

The easiest way to install most Python packages is via easy_install or pip:

If you want to use the GUI tool, you will also need to install wxPython 2.8 or later (it is not installed automatically).

A standalone executable version of the GUI tool for Windows can be downloaded here.

Usage

If you want to parse chatsync files programmatically, check out the SkypeChatSyncScanner and SkypeChatSyncParser classes in skype_chatsync_reader.scanner.A typical usage example is:

Then use p.timestamp, p.participants, and p.conversation to read out the messages. There convenience function parse_chatsync_profile_dir will scanthrough all the dat files in the provided chatsync dir and parse all of them (which can be parsed).

If you want to use the GUI tool, simply run the script:

which is installed into your python’s scripts directory together with the package.

Issues

This is a very crude implementation, written up in a single evening for fun. It is not meant to be production-quality software. There are numerous known and unknown issues.I do not plan to maintain this actively. Feel free to contribute via Github.

Copyright

MIT License
The icon used in the single-file executable is (c) Umut Pulat, licensed under LGPL.

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