I spent 4 hours on this last night...
Background:
- Way#1: I entered gmail.com into the browser.
- Way#2: I went to gmail.com and tried to switch from the account it was displaying to foobar@
what happened next applies to both Way#1 and Way#2.
- When I input foobar@ I was asked for my password. I input my correct password and it was rejected.
- I did this two more times and was rejected.
- The third time I enabled [Forgot Password?] and changed the password.
- I tried again to get onto gmail using the second password and was rejected.
- I tried again...using the first password, and the second password and both times was rejected.
Why is it not possible to enable two Indent Lists on one email???
- Finally, I tried another tact. I went to another browser and found gmail activated for foobar@!
----- I delved into my user preferences to manually change my password. (this turned out to be very difficult--there was no straightforward way to change my password through my preferences.)
-----When I tried to change the password, Google asked for my password. It rejected my password.
-----I don't remember what I did next, only that I did things for about an hour, all to no avail!
----------What did happen was that eventually Google seemed to tentatively accept my password, forced me to verify (2-step), AND THEN WANTED ME TO ESTABLISH A THIRD METHOD OF VERIFICATION that I think it called a backup-something. I did not know what to give Google-I only have one cell phone. It was at this point that I quit.
Today
- I tried to log into foobar@ using the second password. Google accepted it in this manner.
What is going on?
What does Google want from me?
Background:
- Google seems to be trying to eliminate user accounts that users are not using enough.
- I have had some old accounts (over a year) questioned and then eliminated...
- An account I have not used for maybe 2 months is now coming into question...
- Google is impossible to contact.
- Google used to want us to use two-step verification.
- Now Google seems to want the equivalent of three-step verification.
- I am using the moniker foobar@gmail.com to represent the real name of my account. I will refer to it as foobar@ from now on.
- I believe Google is trying to get users to adopt one password, whether they like it or not.
- Way#1: I entered gmail.com into the browser.
- Way#2: I went to gmail.com and tried to switch from the account it was displaying to foobar@
what happened next applies to both Way#1 and Way#2.
- When I input foobar@ I was asked for my password. I input my correct password and it was rejected.
- I did this two more times and was rejected.
- The third time I enabled [Forgot Password?] and changed the password.
- I tried again to get onto gmail using the second password and was rejected.
- I tried again...using the first password, and the second password and both times was rejected.
Why is it not possible to enable two Indent Lists on one email???
- Finally, I tried another tact. I went to another browser and found gmail activated for foobar@!
----- I delved into my user preferences to manually change my password. (this turned out to be very difficult--there was no straightforward way to change my password through my preferences.)
-----When I tried to change the password, Google asked for my password. It rejected my password.
-----I don't remember what I did next, only that I did things for about an hour, all to no avail!
----------What did happen was that eventually Google seemed to tentatively accept my password, forced me to verify (2-step), AND THEN WANTED ME TO ESTABLISH A THIRD METHOD OF VERIFICATION that I think it called a backup-something. I did not know what to give Google-I only have one cell phone. It was at this point that I quit.
Today
- I tried to log into foobar@ using the second password. Google accepted it in this manner.
What is going on?
What does Google want from me?
My Computers
System One System Two
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- OS
- Win11 Home
- Computer type
- Laptop
- Manufacturer/Model
- Dell Inc. Inspiron 16 7610
- CPU
- Dell Inc. 0FHWFD A01
- Motherboard
- Dell Inc. 0FHWFD A01
- Memory
- 16GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- 2.30 gigahertz Intel 11th Gen Core i7-11800H
- Sound Card
- Intel® Smart Sound Technology for USB Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- laptop (small) and 1 or 2 external monitors
- Screen Resolution
- -
- Hard Drives
- PC711 NVMe SK hynix 1TB 1.02 TB NVMe ANB2N582412102F0G_0001
- PSU
- -
- Case
- Laptop
- Cooling
- fan
- Keyboard
- External!
- Mouse
- External
- Internet Speed
- -
- Browser
- Chrome (Chrome profiles), Firefox (Bookmark Search Plus2), Edge (History page), Opera (annoying)
- Antivirus
- WinDefender
- Other Info
- Win11 Home 23H2 22631.3447
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- Operating System
- Win10
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- Manufacturer/Model
- self
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte B75M-D3H
- Memory
- 8068 MB Usable Installed Memory
- Graphics card(s)
- 2.30 gigahertz Intel 11th Gen Core i7-11800H
- Sound Card
- Intel® Smart Sound Technology for USB Audio
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 3 Displays
- Screen Resolution
- n/a
- Hard Drives
- SSD and others (internal and external)
- Case
- Desktop
- Cooling
- Fan
- Mouse
- External
- Keyboard
- External
- Browser
- Chrome, Firefox, Tor, Brave, Opera, etc.
- Antivirus
- Win Defender
- Other Info
- Win10 & unfortunately OneDrive: Can't completely rid myself of this!!
