| Please allow access to previously deleted YouTube names and/or allow users to reopen deleted accounts | AndyFoster | 11/8/11 10:20 PM | Dear Google, This is an issue regarding Signing up for a YouTube account and being able to access previously deleted YouTube names, and/or allowing users to re-open deleted accounts. I created a new YouTube account last week and I was extremely surp |
| Re: Please allow access to previously deleted YouTube names and/or allow users to reopen deleted accounts | Neilajawk | 1/9/12 5:51 PM | I also experienced a similar problem. I went to create a YouTube account, and it asked for a username, no problem. So I created a username just for YouTube. Well, I just went to check my e-mail today, and I discovered that my email address was automa |
| Re: Please allow access to previously deleted YouTube names and/or allow users to reopen deleted accounts | JDoors | 1/10/12 6:01 AM | You are misinterpreting what you are seeing. YouTube cannot change the name of your email account. |
| Re: Please allow access to previously deleted YouTube names and/or allow users to reopen deleted accounts | AndyFoster | 1/14/12 10:21 PM | @TheLadyFromUncle > I can accept your response and Google for their decision. I was very angry at the time this happened and I am still very disappointed because as you stated "If you have closed a channel you would like to have retained while ignori |
| Re: Please allow access to previously deleted YouTube names and/or allow users to reopen deleted accounts | Kangarooo | 2/20/12 1:14 AM | I had Gmail. 8y ago.youtube i think i registered 5y ago with same username but didnt used.year later wanted to use and fast registered kangarooo5.well how to get that mine username at gmail is the same to youtube? i now saw kangarooo is deleted. so i |
| Re: Please allow access to previously deleted YouTube names and/or allow users to reopen deleted accounts | MisterMelly | 2/20/12 1:20 AM | where is this? |
| Re: Please allow access to previously deleted YouTube names and/or allow users to reopen deleted accounts | JDoors | 2/20/12 4:35 AM | It's not clear what you are trying to accomplish, what you had, or did with what you had. You have gmail account let's call it GA (for gmail account "A"). You made a YouTube channel, YA (sounds like this was before they had to be "linked" to gmail, |
| Re: Please allow access to previously deleted YouTube names and/or allow users to reopen deleted accounts | JDoors | 2/20/12 4:36 AM | Reading my own ramblings I think I can guess: You want Kangarooo as a YouTube username. You can't. That name is a permanent part of the closed channel records. That channel cannot be reopened and the name cannot be used again. That's their policy, so |
| Re: Please allow access to previously deleted YouTube names and/or allow users to reopen deleted accounts | MisterMelly | 2/21/12 2:01 AM | "@TheLadyFromUncle" -- you mean Stefanie Damm? she's "TLFU" now, cos she's hated so much she's trolling under another account. i knew it was her straight away cos of her egotistical menstrual prickly inability to deal with people. |
| Re: Please allow access to previously deleted YouTube names and/or allow users to reopen deleted accounts | Unindoctrin8ed | 2/27/12 12:23 AM | I created a new YouTube account under the name Unindoctrinated. I then attempted to connect it to my email address unindoctrinated(at)http://gmail.com. Unfortunately I was apparently already logged into a different GMail account so they merged. I could find |
| Re: Please allow access to previously deleted YouTube names and/or allow users to reopen deleted accounts | JDoors | 2/27/12 4:12 AM | It is not a mistatement, it is a fact. The mistatement is yours, "... so I could re-apply that user name ...." You assumed you can re-use a name that has already been used and discarded. You assumed wrong. There are other options to choose from tha |
| Re: Please allow access to previously deleted YouTube names and/or allow users to reopen deleted accounts | CICASP | 2/27/12 5:57 PM | Hi, I was directed here with a similar issue. I would just like to clarify from reading this thread. If another person opens a channel under a specific name, and then they close their account, that channel name is registered by Google as a closed cha |
| Re: Please allow access to previously deleted YouTube names and/or allow users to reopen deleted accounts | JDoors | 2/27/12 6:23 PM | Unfortunately, your conclusions are correct. The username is part of the permanent records for the channel. Once used, it cannot be used again. If the channel is closed, it is permanently unavailable. |
| Re: Please allow access to previously deleted YouTube names and/or allow users to reopen deleted accounts | OBlWAN | 6/26/12 6:18 PM | Don't be too confident about that. Youtube had a subtraction of old accounts a month ago, which means they are probably going to allow the creation of closed accounts after they delete all the data |
| Re: Please allow access to previously deleted YouTube names and/or allow users to reopen deleted accounts | JDoors | 6/26/12 7:14 PM | There are also other signs that they may change this policy, but that doesn't help anyone who needs help with it right now. Thanks for mentioning it, I agree. |
| Re: Please allow access to previously deleted YouTube names and/or allow users to reopen deleted accounts | GeekGoddess21 | 8/6/12 1:07 AM | @AndyFo5ter Can I please use your post for a petition on http://change.org ? The same thing happened to me, and I really think we can get the ball rolling and get attention for this predicament if I put it on there. With your permission of course. Please re |