Effect2: Made more clear that this is not the only copy of everything; minor change in wording; fixed typo

2019-04-12T03:28:34Z

Made more clear that this is not the only copy of everything; minor change in wording; fixed typo

Effect2: Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Telephony |extension={{ext|dat}} |released=2003Wikipedia:Skype }} Before a change some time in or before 2017M..."

2019-04-11T04:20:19Z

Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Telephony |extension={{ext|dat}} |released=2003<ref>Wikipedia:Skype</ref> }} Before a change some time in or before 2017<ref>M..."

New page

{{FormatInfo
|formattype=electronic
|subcat=Telephony
|extension={{ext|dat}}
|released=2003<ref>[[Wikipedia:Skype]]</ref>
}}

Before a change some time in or before 2017<ref>Message at top of http://fouryears.eu/2015/01/22/skype-removed-messages/</ref>, the [[Telephony|VoIP]] + [[E-Mail,_newsgroups,_and_forums#Chat.2C_Texting_and_Instant_Messaging|chat]] program [[Skype]] stored its message history in several binary files collected under a directory names "'''chatsync'''". These are particularly useful, especially in comparison to [[Skype main.db|the main Skype log/history database]], because they purportedly contain messages that had been "deleted" by the client. Under the "chatsync" directory, the individual files, which have the extension .dat and a main name consisting of 8 bytes represented in hexadecimal (to make 16 ASCII characters), are placed into directories named after the first two characters (i.e. the first byte, as represented in hexadecimal) of their name.<ref name="effect2_personal">A Skype database, last modified late 2014, associated with [[User:Effect2]]</ref>

== Identification ==
.dat files appear to have the magic number {{magic|73 43 64 72 07}}, as represented in hexadecimal.<ref>https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/231-Skype-Logs.html#c1066</ref>

== Links ==
* [https://pypi.org/project/skype-chatsync-reader/]: A [[Python]] tool (Pip package name skype-chatsync-reader) capable of reading the files (this does not seem to work with <ref name="effect2_personal" />; it is possible that the change was not even around 2017 but rather pre-2014)
** [https://github.com/konstantint/skype-chatsync-reader GitHub page]
** [http://fouryears.eu/2015/01/22/skype-removed-messages/ An associated blog post]
* [https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/231-Skype-Logs.html#c1066 An attempt to document the structure of the .dat format]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100911132415/http://itsecuritylab.eu/index.php/2010/08/20/skype-dat-reader-is-updated/ Another program for reading .dat files]

== References ==
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-Before a change some time in or before 2017<ref>Message at top of http://fouryears.eu/2015/01/22/skype-removed-messages/</ref>, the [[Telephony|VoIP]] + [[E-Mail,_newsgroups,_and_forums#Chat.2C_Texting_and_Instant_Messaging|chat]] program [[Skype]] stored its message history in several binary files collected under a directory names "'''chatsync'''". These are particularly useful, especially in comparison to [[Skype main.db|the main Skype log/history database]], because they purportedly contain messages that had been "deleted" by the client. Under the "chatsync" directory, the individual files, which have the extension .dat and a main name consisting of 8 bytes represented in hexadecimal (to make 16 ASCII characters), are placed into directories named after the first two characters (i.e. the first byte, as represented in hexadecimal) of their name.<ref name="effect2_personal">A Skype database, last modified late 2014, associated with [[User:Effect2]]</ref>
+Before a change some time in or before 2017<ref>Message at top of http://fouryears.eu/2015/01/22/skype-removed-messages/</ref>, the [[Telephony|VoIP]] + [[E-Mail,_newsgroups,_and_forums#Chat.2C_Texting_and_Instant_Messaging|chat]] program [[Skype]] stored a copy of its message history in several binary files collected under a directory named "'''chatsync'''". These are particularly useful, especially in comparison to [[Skype main.db|the main Skype log/history database]], because they purportedly contain messages that had been "deleted" by the client. Under the "chatsync" directory, the individual files, which have the extension .dat and a main name consisting of 8 bytes represented in hexadecimal (to make 16 ASCII characters), are placed into directories named after the first two characters (i.e. the first byte, as represented in hexadecimal) of their name.<ref name="effect2_personal">A Skype database, last modified late 2014, from an installation by [[User:Effect2]]</ref>
 == Identification ==

Pre-2017 Skype chatsync - Revision history

Effect2: Made more clear that this is not the only copy of everything; minor change in wording; fixed typo

Effect2: Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Telephony |extension={{ext|dat}} |released=2003Wikipedia:Skype }} Before a change some time in or before 2017M..."