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- Skype messages not sending Offline#
In short, this workaround is to create a second chat with the contact(s) to whom your messages are being blocked, and to send another message from that new window (I usually type something like "Unblocking our other window."). Potential workaround #1: Send a message from a second chat window
Skype messages not sending mac os#
This selection of threads about this problem on the Skype forums - both pre- and post-Microsoft's acquisition of Skype - seems to demonstrate that (1) it has been ongoing for many years, and as of March 2018 has still not been solved, and (2) it occurs under Windows, Mac OS X, iOS and Android (to which we can add Linux, on which I have experienced the problem ), and thus that the presumed bug causing it is platform-independent, and so is probably a part of the core Skype code. Skype Community threads attesting to this problem To test this: restart Skype, and if your contact is now showing up as offline, then that was the problem: messages are not marked as delivered until both of you are online simultaneously (at least, this was the case when I first wrote this article back in 2014 - the situation may be different now that Skype stores messages on its servers). Another possibility: your contact is offlineĪnother possibility is that your contact is actually offline, even though s/he is showing up as online: sometimes, Skype doesn't "realise" that someone in your contacts list has gone offline. You can check the Skype Status page, amongst others, to find out whether there's an outage affecting you. In that case, the workarounds on this page will be futile, and all you can do is wait until the Skype technicians solve the problem. Delete your Skype personal data directoryįirst up: check that the problem is not a server outageĪlong with the problem described in this article, another reason why Skype messages might fail to send is that there is an outage on Skype's servers: these days, Skype clients send messages through central servers rather than directly to one another (peer-to-peer), so a problem with a server can block communication between clients.Send a message from a second chat window.Skype Community threads attesting to this problem.
Skype messages not sending Offline#

Sometimes, the messages remain blocked - inexplicably - for hours or even days.

Sometimes, in an instant messaging conversation on Skype, messages are marked as "pending" for no apparent reason: neither chat partner has blocked the other, and both are online.
Skype messages not sending how to#
How to fix inexplicably undelivered/pending/blocked Skype messages
