So how do you actually download those priceless video messages? The logic behind downloading these important videos is that you take control and responsibility of keeping them on your end.

Related: How to fix Skype screen sharing problems.

What if these messages will be deleted sometime in the future? What works today may be broken tomorrow, what is free today may cost money tomorrow, and what seems like a lifetime endless storage space may be gone without a trace in an eye blink. I remember many “free for life” services I once used – which aren’t free anymore.) We, as end-users of a service that is currently free, have no control over Skype’s (actually Microsoft’s) storage policy. (“Forever” comes to an end very often sooner than you may realize.

It turns out that these video messages are (theoretically) stored on Skype’s servers for an indefinite period of time.

But then I thought: “What if I need to format this computer in the future? What will happen to those priceless video messages?” I enjoyed getting those messages very much, and I liked to replay them over and over in my spare time. During that time, my two lovely daughters used Skype to communicate with me while I was on the road, and since I could not always pick up the phone to answer them and because of the time difference, they ended up leaving many video messages for me. Last month I was abroad, doing some consulting for various customers.

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