Support for exported skype chats

[Nikoichu]

With skype's demise in a few months, many users are moving to signal, due to its similar UI.
I've exported all my data from skype using miceosoft's exporter, and that includes chats and files/media.
Is there any way I can import those into Signal?

[tlueder]

I'm not sure about the media, I did not imported that when I moved to signal.
But if the chats are in a parsable format, I don't see why not. Can you provide me an anonymised example? Like folder structure and 1 or 2 chat files, trimmed down to like 10 messages?

[Nikoichu]

All of the chats are in one giant .json file that is a complete mess. Mine is 87 megabytes and Notepad++ barely opens it. I can't upload it or edit it to anonymize it since it lags like there is no tomorrow.

I tried to make a new skype account to get some sample chats, but before I could export them, M$ detected my account was "spamming" and locked it. I now have a headache from dealing with all of that.

I'll try again later if I find the willpower to deal with microsoft's bullsh*t again.