| Trouble with youtube username | SteamWorks Studios | 6/28/12 10:30 PM | I've had this account since about 2007. I reset my youtube password, now when I sign in and try to go to my account it asks me to type in a username. When I type in my username 'SteamWorksStudios' it's says it's already taken. I can't see anyway a |
| Re: Trouble with youtube username | The Lady From Uncle | 6/29/12 12:11 AM | Unfortunately it appears that you did something to close the YouTube channel by that name. And that is why you cannot log into it- it no longer exists in a form that you can log into. You either closed it directly at YouTube and your efforts would h |
| Re: Trouble with youtube username | SteamWorks Studios | 6/29/12 1:50 AM | All I did was try to reset my password. I never got the page in the first image to close my account. This account was not tied to any google account until today when I tried to reset the password and it had me go through the process of creating a g |
| Re: Trouble with youtube username | The Lady From Uncle | 6/29/12 1:58 AM | All YouTube channels must be associated with (to quote you: "tied to") Google accounts or else they do not function. Resetting a YouTube channel's password requires that you reset the YouTube's Google account's password as both the email and the pas |
| Re: Trouble with youtube username | MSIR60 (The Original) | 6/29/12 3:47 AM | were you monitoring your e-mail address you used to initially set up your youtube account during the "great purge" that TLFU refers to? some people used temporary e-mail services such as trashmail just to set up a youtube account before the days when |
| Re: Trouble with youtube username | SteamWorks Studios | 6/29/12 9:57 AM | Ok. I went through my email account (not google) associated with 'steamworksstudios' and I did find those emails you mentioned. I rarely logged into that email account until recently(same for the 'steamworksstudios' youtube account; the reason why |
| Re: Trouble with youtube username | The Lady From Uncle | 6/29/12 10:17 AM | Ah, so your YouTube channel was closed for lack of use and no upgrade. :( Pity. As for the other one: if you use the other YouTube channel "all the time" then you have linked it to a Google account, even if it is not a GMail email using Google acc |
| Re: Trouble with youtube username | MSIR60 (The Original) | 7/1/12 10:40 AM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: Trouble with youtube username | MSIR60 (The Original) | 7/1/12 10:42 AM | for future reference, you'd be wise to avoid using gmail as a primary e-mail account. if you lose your google account, as many have for "perceived violations", then you lose your e-mail, probably indefinitely. i'd stick to hotmail or yahoo for google |