| To change Username - cancel exisitng account - create new account, but system won't let me use existing Google Account. | videofuture1 | 12/24/09 6:53 AM | Want to change YouTube Username. My understanding is that to do this you had to cancel existing account and create a new account with new username. Cancelled existing account and tried to create new account with new username tied to same Google Acc |
| Re: To change Username - cancel exisitng account - create new account, but system won't let me use existing Google Account. | MrColoradan | 12/24/09 7:29 AM | I want to do exactly the same thing. If an account is "deleted" (under the usual meaning of the word) then it doesn't exist any more. I too tried to do this but when I tried to create another account, Google said my account was already linked to th |
| Re: To change Username - cancel exisitng account - create new account, but system won't let me use existing Google Account. | JDoors | 12/24/09 9:03 AM | A lot of people assume what everyone believes should be obvious, that if you close an account, it's just plain gone. It's not. All the data is retained for security, accountablility and other reasons (like, what if you wanted to reopen it and use tha |
| Re: To change Username - cancel exisitng account - create new account, but system won't let me use existing Google Account. | MrColoradan | 12/24/09 4:58 PM | JDoors wrote: (like, what if you wanted to reopen it and use that name again? If they just threw all that data out, you could not do that) Why not? If the account had really been deleted, the username would then become available again. But for so |
| Re: To change Username - cancel exisitng account - create new account, but system won't let me use existing Google Account. | mrparlato | 12/31/09 5:50 AM | The focus and responsibility should be more focused on user. I don't know how widespread the issue is, but I think this is uniquely backwards. A user should be able to change the username of an account. It could and should be policy for the user to u |
| Re: To change Username - cancel exisitng account - create new account, but system won't let me use existing Google Account. | Aamir Yaseen | 12/31/09 6:34 AM | My problem is I have deleted my youtube account that was associated with my primary gmail account. Now I want to create new username on youtube and attach this new youtube username with my primary gmail account. But google is not allowing me to do it |
| Re: To change Username - cancel exisitng account - create new account, but system won't let me use existing Google Account. | Aamir Yaseen | 12/31/09 6:38 AM | I am getting following message when I am trying to connect new youtube user name with existing gmail account. 'The Google account you tried to sign in to is already linked to oldusername' |
| Re: To change Username - cancel exisitng account - create new account, but system won't let me use existing Google Account. | anmoose | 12/31/09 9:11 AM | That is the message you will ALWAYS get, because that account is PERMANENTLY linked to the old account. There is no way to UNlink it. |
| Re: To change Username - cancel exisitng account - create new account, but system won't let me use existing Google Account. | Aamir Yaseen | 12/31/09 11:23 AM | Hi Anmoose, But I want to link new account with same email. is there anyway I can do it? Thanks in advanca, Aamir |
| Re: To change Username - cancel exisitng account - create new account, but system won't let me use existing Google Account. | anmoose | 12/31/09 4:10 PM | You can't do it. Google no longer allows it. You only get ONE chance at ONE account per email address. And yes, it's completely ridiculous. |
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| Re: To change Username - cancel exisitng account - create new account, but system won't let me use existing Google Account. | wealthplanllc | 1/2/10 5:41 PM | I find it very strange that I cannot change a YouTube account link within my Google account. I hope people from tech support and developers are actually looking at pages like this so they can see what people are going through. I find this to be a sim |
| Re: To change Username - cancel exisitng account - create new account, but system won't let me use existing Google Account. | ChrisBurrows | 1/5/10 4:44 AM | Not a fan of this rule. Though I understand why they do it, I think there should be some acceptions. What about long term users of their google account tied to a youtube username. Or users that have CCs tied to their accounts and are in good standin |
| Re: To change Username - cancel exisitng account - create new account, but system won't let me use existing Google Account. | oyvine | 1/6/10 10:21 PM | Well, I was just going to post my first (could you believe it?) video on youtube. I just wanted to change my username first. This stupid rule makes that impossible. That means that I will be posting my first vimeo video in the next minutes. So long y |
| Re: To change Username - cancel exisitng account - create new account, but system won't let me use existing Google Account. | anmoose | 1/6/10 11:40 PM | *waves byebye @ oyvine* |
| Re: To change Username - cancel exisitng account - create new account, but system won't let me use existing Google Account. | JDoors | 1/7/10 8:09 AM | Øyvin, all you'd have to do is create a new account with your preferred username, but using a different e-mail address and/or Google account. It's no big deal. I have more than eight e-mail addresses used for various accounts and reasons. My e-mail p |
| Re: To change Username - cancel exisitng account - create new account, but system won't let me use existing Google Account. | edersharon | 1/8/10 7:13 AM | |
| Re: To change Username - cancel exisitng account - create new account, but system won't let me use existing Google Account. | bennettwilliamsdrums | 1/13/10 5:24 PM | I have had nothing but problems trying to get my YouTube account linked to my gmail account with the exact same username. Because when I signed up for YouTube I used an older email account that has since been deleted, YouTube will not let me log in m |
| Re: To change Username - cancel exisitng account - create new account, but system won't let me use existing Google Account. | ashweenxlata | 1/17/10 1:41 PM | Dear all, I need help to get my youtube account set up. I have been trying to sign in as it says my username exists. I tried with all the passwords I can recall or ever used. It doesnt work. It asks to sign in using google account and I use gmail so |
| Re: To change Username - cancel exisitng account - create new account, but system won't let me use existing Google Account. | bennettwilliamsdrums | 1/17/10 5:27 PM | ashweenxlata: This is EXACTLY my problem. So far there is no solution. This is the kind of thing that somebody with access inside the YouTube computing system would be able to fix, if they had any sort of technical support..... but they don't. I ha |
| Re: To change Username - cancel exisitng account - create new account, but system won't let me use existing Google Account. | rjthomson | 1/21/10 10:34 PM | STUPID! |
| Re: To change Username - cancel exisitng account - create new account, but system won't let me use existing Google Account. | pepk | 1/22/10 3:49 PM | I tried to open a new Youtube account since my 12 year old appropriated mine and when I comment on videos, SHE gets the responses, and vice versa. It's very annoying, however, yeah, you need a new email to open a new account and how STUPID is that? |
| Re: To change Username - cancel exisitng account - create new account, but system won't let me use existing Google Account. | JDoors | 3/4/10 10:04 AM | I don't know why Google decided that a gmail/YouTube combination MUST be considered one, combined, and permanent, Google account. Kind of gives users the incentive to use OTHER e-mail services just to avoid that snafu. Well, it WOULD give them that i |
| Re: To change Username - cancel exisitng account - create new account, but system won't let me use existing Google Account. | bmix40 | 5/12/10 2:44 PM | Not sure if anyone has an answer to this question: Today I went to create a new YouTube account that uses my real name in the URL (username). I do realize that you can only have one YouTube account linked to your Gmail account (which is quite frank |
| Re: To change Username - cancel exisitng account - create new account, but system won't let me use existing Google Account. | JDoors | 5/13/10 8:24 AM | If you do contact them do NOT have them close the account -- As stated elsewhere in this thread, that name will be retained in a permanent record and cannot be used again. To "transfer" ownership to you they must give you (temporary) access to the e- |