There is a Skype setting called "When I receive a file..." where you can select a folder and Skype used to put all received files into that directory.
At some point Skype stopped doing that for images and videos. Those are now only in the cloud (and I don't know for how long) unless you explicitly save each picture manually.
So this little tool will watch the Skype media cache folder and whenever a new file is received, it will copy this file to its output folder.
Download the latest release. Put it in a folder and make sure it can write to this folder. Put a link in the Start > All Programs > Startup folder. Run it.
It will write every received picture to that folder.
Currently it only works on Windows because I don't know where Linux Skype puts its files. PRs welcome.
Run it again, it will ask if you want it to exit.
go get
go build -ldflags "-s -w -H=windowsgui"
(-s -w for smaller executables, -H=windowsgui for no console window)
It will be linked by the go compiler to tell windows to use modern windows buttons
in the dialogs. It can be generated from beautiful_buttons.manifest.xml with
rsrc -manifest=beautiful_dialogs.manifest.xml (by rsrc).