SUBREDDIT: r/tifu
TITLE: TIFU by reinstalling skype
POST: This just happened about an hour ago.

Backstory: My skype microphone volume recently wasn't as loud as it should be so I contacted support and got it reinstalled, little did I know, it would delete every message and conversation before July 8th (I don't know why still). I was also invited to go this event for gamers and other specific things but the person who invited me broke their arm and messaged me to cancel but I had to tell the 3rd person who was going that it was cancelled.

Now the only way I could tell the 3rd person that the event was cancelled was over skype and it just so happens that I haven't added that person because I never needed to message them and the only group we were in was deleted. I googled ways to find old messages and came across a specific folder called main.db. The only way I could open it was in notepad so I figured if it had every message sent, it would also have every username in there. But after awhile of trying possible usernames in Ctrl F, i ended up having to scroll through a lot until I found the name. I added them and told them it was cancelled in the end. 

But the real part that annoyed me was I did all of it so that my friend wouldn't have to log on to Skype and tell them.

I took a screenshot of like 1/1000 of the notepad for those that want to see.
TL;DR: 
Old messages got deleted, had to go through large text to find a username so friend wouldn't have to log on.