How to recover accidentally deleted Skype users

recover draft contacts in Skype

With a little trick that we will suggest in this article, you will now have the possibility to recover those users that you may have deleted at a certain time within your Skype account.

While it is true that there are many messaging and video conferencing services on the web, the preference for using Microsoft's Skype is still one of the tastes of many people. For this reason, if you are currently using it and you realize right there that a few of your contacts are not present, then now we will mention you the place where their names are and how to proceed to retrieve them again.

Searching for the hidden Skype registry in Windows

This trick for Skype may work perfectly well if we have not cleaned the temporary files of our operating system. We must also take into account that some directories and folders may be invisible, and therefore should try to make them visible to proceed with the suggested steps. If we have already made all the hidden folders visible, then we must go to the path shown in the image placed below (within our file explorer).

Contacts data path in Skype

The directory that should really interest us is the one with the name «CHATSYNC«, Inside which you will find a few more folders. In some of them there must be files with a .DAT ending, which we will have to open with a simple notepad. Within all the coding that you come to admire in this file, you will find the username of those Skype contacts and of which, some of them you have accidentally deleted.

draft contacts in Skype

The trick is to have to copy these usernames and then to have to use them Skype Search. In this way we will be able to find again those users that we previously eliminated and of course, we can add them back to our contact lists.


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