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 Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:18 pm Post subject: How do I create an account? |
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I deleted my newly created account by accident and I was sent a new invite to recreate it, but it is saying that the name is no longer available. The name is a very unlikely name so I wouldn't think anyone would have created the account in the time it took me to try the second time.
Does Gmail avail the deleted account names after they have been deleted after a certain time or at all?
please help.
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mondine
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| Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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I don't think that anyone's found a definitive answer to that one yet.
But it's at least a matter of months, or more.
You may have to settle for a variation of it, by adding a period, hyphen, underline, etc.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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| thanks, if anyone else knows anything please let me know.. |
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 2:17 am Post subject: |
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I think there's a period of nine months between deleting and it being available again.
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 2:31 am Post subject: |
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Yeah I heared that nine months thing aswell - though can't remember where from.
E-mail google (from another email account) and tell them about the problem and see if they can sort something out.
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IamTheKing9
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 1:58 am Post subject: |
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I've heard about the nine months thing as well, and thought that I'd better tell you where I read about it.
The thing is that Google deletes/deactivates an account after it hasn't been used for nine consecutive months.
I don't know the answer to brum's question, though. The nine months thing is talked about in Gmail's Help Centre here, by the way.
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brum
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| Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 6:50 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you all muchely,this is much more than I knew origninally. Unfortunately Google wont respond tomy email but that’s understandable and the Help Centre is not conclusive:
"If you don't log in to your account for an extendedperiod of time, we'll mark it as dormant. After nine consecutive months ofinactivity, Google may delete the accountand all messages within that account.
If your dormant account is deleted, we can't guarantee that your username will be madeavailable again. Make sure to log in to Gmail regularly!"
Thanks again for this reference and all your info, ifanyone hears anything else, please let me know. EDIT: Formatting mangled itself...
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| Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:08 am Post subject: |
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I am not sure of the nine months either. But I can confirm 100% that names are deleted.
I sent an invite to a friend of mine last year, he hardly used his account and one day he decided to but it was gone (duh... lol) I then sent him another e-mail and he set up the same user name/e-mail address as the original. The trouble is, I can't remember the amount of time in between the original was set up and the second.
Good luck
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| Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 4:21 am Post subject: |
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| Thank TheBear, if anyone has anything to add... |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Can anybody tell me what/how to get a gmail acct? All my coworkers have one but we rarely see each other during the day and it would make it easier if we all had the same thing going. |
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mondine
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| Posted: Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:43 pm Post subject: |
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That's what the first topic at the top of this (Gmail) forum is for.
Just post an address, and someone will send you one.
Use a form the bots won't pick up, like name(at)domain(dot)com, etc.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:38 am Post subject: |
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can anyone invite me on gmail account?with my email here:goodnessbantin@msn.com
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| Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 3:18 am Post subject: |
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| young_lad wrote: | | can anyone invite me on gmail account?with my email here:goodnessbantin@msn.com |
There is a thread for this please don't post it here, find the invites thread.
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