So basically one day I would be randomly signed out and when I tried to log back in again I would get a 'database error, please restart' message, and I should have immediately stopped there but I kept signing in and eventually when I logged back in for however many times after it kept kicking me out everything was all messed up, contacts, chat history, everything.
The database that everything, contacts, chat history, group chats, etc. is stored in is called 'main.db', and mine has gotten corrupt. It has about 2 years worth of chat logs and other conversation history I'd hate to loose and I have no recent backups of. Skype itself has a built in repair function and it looks like it's repaired the database itself before, but today when it tried to repair the database (which I later found out it was running through every time I logged in after being signed out with the error message) it was 'messed up' like I described above.
In the meantime I am using the Windows 10 version which was able to pull my contacts and some recent chat history from the corrupt DB so that works for now.
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It left the last unfixed corrupt database file as main.corrupt, and since this is an SQLite 3 database I took it and tried to work with it, Here are the messages I'm getting when trying to read it in various applications, 'Database image is malformed', and when trying to do 'sqlite3 main.db 'PRAGMA integrity_check' I get several messages looking like this, 'Page #####: btreeInitPage() returns error code 11'
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I've been looking into it myself, I am not entirely sure of the format of these databases although it seems others have documented it online as well. There is even a program called 'Skyperious' which allows you to load up the database and read it, however I just get the usual 'Database image is malformed', and I tried using it's own repair function but haven't had much luck, I'll keep trying though
If anyone knows of any way I can fix this easily please let me know!