On Saturday, November 23, 2013 8:41:01 AM UTC+8, billhansen wrote: > > John - By now you've read the rest of th thread, so you know that I did > try to reset the password. Tried it many times, both from the desktop and > from the Google account online. Everything appeared to go normally, right > up to the point where the Google recovery module said it would send an > email to my alternate Google address. But no email ever arrived. > > "Never say never" - but it seems pretty unlikely that I wrote down my > password incorrectly as I created it. Anyway, I'm grateful that things are > working normally now. > > Bill >
Lesson learned: never trust your work to reside online, be it Google or Yahoo or Microsoft. Always assume your online account can be compromised. RL > > > On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 3:43 PM, John Blake <[email protected]<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Hi Bill >> >> Just a quick thought. >> You say you can access gmail from your desktop. >> Does that mean accessing your Google account settings from there? >> If so. Could you reset your password again from there? >> >> Are you sure your backup email address is correct? >> >> Sorry to be brief, sending from my phone. >> >> Just some thoughts >> >> Cheers >> John Blake >> VK6JB >> Sent from my Android phone. >> On 21/11/2013 11:34 PM, "billhansen" <[email protected] <javascript:>> >> wrote: >> >>> I'm getting desperate. I got notice from Google that someone had >>> unauthorized access to my Gmail accout, with the recommendation that I >>> should change my password. I changed the password, but the new password is >>> not recognized. I went through the gmail password recovery procedure, which >>> said they would send directions to my alternate gmail address at Yahoo, but >>> 18 hours later, no communication from the password recovery was received in >>> my Yahoo email account. I don't know where to go from here. >>> >>> I haven't yet been asked for my password when I access gmail on my >>> desktop computer, so I'm okay there, for now. But I can't access any Google >>> modules from my cell phone, which is really bad. Eventually I know I'll be >>> asked for a password when accessing gmail from the desktop, and then my >>> Gmail account will be all gone, unless there is some remedy. >>> >>> If anyone knows of a way to contact Google directly, or any other way to >>> recover or change that password, please let me know as soon as possible. >>> >>> Losing the Gmail account would be a huge problem, because there are many >>> dozens of important things archived there (and there's no way to back them >>> up, or none I know of). >>> >>> Thanks - Bill Hansen >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Gmail-Users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >>> . >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Gmail-Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
