

Alternatively, you can add the Skype user echo123 (named Echo / Sound Test Service) to your contacts list and call it as a test.

To do this, go to Settings > Audio & Video in Skype and click the Make a free test call link at the bottom of the page. Note that ÿØÿà is a Windows-1252 representation of binary data. If everything above works properly, try a test call. Including the first, so the file will begin with Where is a bigger avatar? / avatar_image is emptyĪfter saving, delete everything from the beginning of the file to the You can, of course, do it with HEX-editor, but you better delete "NUL" at the beginning with Notepad++ which will not corrupt binary file like any other text editor.Īnd viola, this is the. I had to remove null-byte at the beginning of extracted file. Double-click it, hit "Export" and save to a. Navigate to Browse data tab, Table Contacts, column avatar_image (21th currently) is the blob you are looking at. You can open SQLite database with SQLite studio which is cool and worth trying, but this time use DB Browser for SQLite because it can easily export binary column to file. Open database file in DB Browser for SQLite Luckily, you don't have to exit skype to copy it's database. Do not open (and edit) main.db directly if unsure. If you are going to mess with skype database, copy both main.db and main.db-journal somewhere else. ( What is “%AppData%”? and What are environment variables?) You can paste %APPDATA%\Skype in windows start menu search bar and press enter. Continue only if you really want to extract big and/or small avatars from your skype client.Īvatars can be found in main.db database, Contacts table, avatar_image column, or inside profile_attachments column, as noted in this answer Where is main.db?
