Simply sign into your account online and follow the option to Reactivate credit.' - per email received by Tantek Çelik on with subject 'Your credit will become inactive in 7 days'. You will be prompted to choose your preferred account in case of multiple logins. Log back in using your new Skype account details, then click Next. 'Once it becomes inactive, you can reactivate it whenever you're ready to use it. If you have an existing Microsoft account that you want to merge with your Skype, follow the steps below: Go to Microsoft’s website and log out if you’re already signed in. If you don't use your Skype credit for 180 days, it becomes inactive. And this would differ based on the Window manager. This would mean you would either have to script or manually add this functionality. This issue is present on the latest versions.īasically, installing the Skype app does not automatically configure a handler. Select your account then sign in or reset your password.'įollowing this process I ( Tantek Çelik) was able to recover my Skype account on that I had not used for maybe over a year (last email notification from Skype was dated ).Īpparently on Fedora Linux, even when you install the Skype app, click on 'skype:' URLs fails to launch the Skype app. Try entering your email there, and if it can find your account, you should get a message like: Then you might be able to recover the account using their diagnostics UI: Enter a different account or get a new one.' If you try to login with your email address in a Skype native app or and get the error message:

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