>>I guess I didn't make it very clear, it is only Skype _Chat_ which we are looking to log, not actual voice recordings. Most of the products suggested do voice recording.
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>I know I've set mine to keep logs forever, but I can't read them with anything else but skype itself, which sort of sucks. Most of the registry entries for Skype, the interesting ones, are encrypted, so I don't even know where does it keep its data. Could be anywhere - today's disks are huge forests.
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>But there's a COM interface for it:
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>osk=CREATEOBJECT("Skype4COM.Application")
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>..and any one from other Skype4COM interfaces. Somewhere in there you should be able to find an interface, maybe an eventhandler() or a prg-based classes with Implements clause (try with Object Browser)... one of those should be able to get you there.

OK... here's more stuff I tried:

osc=CREATEOBJECT("Skype4COM.Skype")
oc=osc.Chats
?oc.Count
?oc.Item(1).Name
?oc.Item(2).Name
?oc.Item(1322).Name
?oc.Count
?oc.Item(1435).Name
* it turns out that this collection is a latest-is-first list, because the chat #1435 
* happened almost three years ago (with the late Jim Nelson).
om1=oc.Item(1)
oms=om1.Messages
?oms.Count
?oms.Item(1).Body
?oms.Item(1).ChatName
?oms.Item(1).Chat
och=oms.Item(1).Chat
?och.TopicXML
?och.DialogPartner
?och.FriendlyName
?och.Messages
?och.Messages.Count
?oms.Count
?och.AlertString
?och.MyRole
?och.MyStatus
?och.Name
?och.RecentMessages
?och.RecentMessages.Item(1)
om2=och.RecentMessages.Item(1)
?om2.Body
?om2.EditedTimestamp
?om2.Timestamp
?om2.Body
?och.RecentMessages.Count

So it seems that a messages collection keeps the messages for one chat, and in a message the .body property either contains the actual message text or XML with list of participants. So it should be possible to pull whatever you need from these objects and store it in a table (well, a set of tables - participants, chats, chat messages) and there's your archive. Just periodically import into your tables and you got it all.