| Can not delete an account | LukeDouglas | 2/19/10 11:35 PM | I followed the instructions to delete my account which is linked to my Google email account. It keeps telling me " Incorrect password. Please retype your password." even when I log out of YouTube.com and log back in. When I click the Delete Account |
| Re: Can not delete an account | JDoors | 2/20/10 8:40 AM | The close account section for your YouTube account does not have a password box because that YouTube account is still linked to a Google account. Apparently you are supposed to "manage" your YouTube account through Google (however, your Google accoun |
| Re: Can not delete an account | JDoors | 2/20/10 10:39 AM | Where do you get that? When you use the delete account section of your YouTube account management page there is no password box if the account is linked to Google, and whatever happens next will fail because you were not given the opportunity to prov |
| Re: Can not delete an account | TLFU | 2/20/10 10:43 AM | That is what I got when I opted to "delete" the YouTube account which is linked to my Google. It IS possible to delete it : |
| Re: Can not delete an account | JDoors | 2/20/10 10:47 AM | Oh God no, neither you or I can test this out to the end, but other users have stated they can't close their account using the delete account section because there is no opportunity to provide the password, yet their request gets rejected BECAUSE the |
| Re: Can not delete an account | LukeDouglas | 2/20/10 10:51 AM | JDoors, that is exactly what happens. I'm just a country boy from southern Alabama but I've done application development for about 30 years and YouTube has some 'serious' account management problems. The sad thing is there doesn't seem to be a way |
| Re: Can not delete an account | JDoors | 2/20/10 11:04 AM | Well, YouTube site functionality was set in stone a long time ago and Google can't seem to change any of it without breaking some other part, so ... there's that. They do say they're working on better user account management tools. No idea what "th |
| Re: Can not delete an account | LukeDouglas | 2/20/10 11:15 AM | JDoors, Then it looks like I'm screwed. I hope Google gets this resolved soon as I've enjoyed Google services for several years and, in fact, I'm signing up for Google Apps next month. My son changed over a couple of months ago to sync everything |
| Re: Can not delete an account | TLFU | 2/20/10 12:10 PM | @JDoors- sorry, was off writing a press release for our big event (Edinburgh, 26th Feb- three band gig- BIG deal) and conferring about lights and set lists... Yes, that is what I see when I attempt to delete a post-May 2009 YouTube account. On YouT |
| Re: Can not delete an account | Webbering | 2/20/10 12:22 PM | Stefanie, Actually, if you click Delete and the account is linked to a Google email account, it just says that the password is incorrect. But there was NO password pop-up window which 'asked' for your password. That is the problem. If you are lin |
| Re: Can not delete an account | TLFU | 2/20/10 12:47 PM | @Webbering- are you making a distinction between GMail Google account and YouTube linkage, and Google account and YouTube linkage? Because I don't do GMail. Hence my perma-linked Google account is a private domain email address. :) It is STILL pe |
| Re: Can not delete an account | LukeDouglas | 2/25/10 2:12 PM | Stefanie, Yea, I simply setup a Comcast email account, used that email to setup the Google account which I used when I setup a new YouTube account. That took Gmail completely out of the equation. |