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From: Hessel R on 18 May 2010 07:12
On 12 apr, 22:42, Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...(a)sometimes.sessile.org>
wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 21:21:28 +0100, Ian McCall <i...(a)eruvia.org> wrote:
> >I've forgotten my Skype password. I rarely use Skype, but had reason to
> >tonight and wanted to log in on my phone as well as the Mac.
>
> >Fine, go to Keychain to retrieve the password. Click the 'show
> >password' check box, type in the login keychain password and...hmm. The
> >box immediately unchecks itself and no password appears.
>
> >This is the only password for which this behaviour is occurring - all
> >others are fine. Obviously I could just reset my Skype account's
> >password but I'm curious now as to what's going on. Any ideas?
>
> No, but I can confirm this is normal for Skype - my ex-boss had
> exactly the same problem, but his was exacerbated by Skype being set
> to an old (ISP specific) email address so that he couldn't even
> respond to the password reset confirmation email...
>
> He eventually remembered it, thankfully. There was no mechanism that
> Skype would employ to let him get his password reset any other way,
> even though he was on a pay-for account type.
>
>         Cheers - Jaimie
> --
> 'The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human
>  mind to correlate all its contents'   - H.P.Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

Same here...if you would have the account installed on a windows
machine as well, you could try http://lastbit.com/skype/default.asp.
For me: no Mac program could see my password stored in the keychain,
you really really will have to remember. If you have a payed
subscription (like skypeOut) the helpdesk can help you.
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