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		vultour on June 9, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft to retire Skype Linux app on July 1 But do you really need them? I also swear by keeping all my chat logs, and would get very upset if I lost my WhatsApp / iMessage conversations, however on the other hand I cannot recall a single instance where I needed to find something that was older than a week.

_ugfj on June 10, 2017 [–]

As claudius mentions, it's a simple SQLite database and yes I do search it, every 2-3 months we need some nugget from years and years ago.

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