On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Andy <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Pissed Gmailers Inc. <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'm the only one who logged in to my account.
>>
>> However i can't see if someone else has been trying to log in?
>> It only shows successful logins... So thats the same as not showing
>> anything at all!
>>
>
> ​I think the recommendation to see if anyone else has logged in, is to see
> if someone else might be changing your password on you.​  A suddenly
> changed password is one sign of that.
>
> If someone else repeatedly attempts to login and fails, I believe it will
> lock you out completely.  I think the fact that you are able to reset your
> password and then login, without having to wait another day or so, shows
> that this is not what happened.  (But I could be wrong.)
>
> I have not changed anything to my account, one day it worked and the other
>> it just forgot my password.
>>
> ​...
>
>> It almost feels like google lost data... And looses it over and over
>> again...
>>
>
> ​​Perhaps, instead of them forgetting your password, ​your computer (note
> I didn't say *you*, necessarily) is sending the wrong password.  There are
> some reasons why that would happen -- having CapsLock stuck ON being one of
> them -- perhaps others too.
>
> When Gmail changed its login screen about a month ago, with separate
> username and password "screens", I have more trouble logging in now,
> because I start typing the password too early and the first few characters
> are lost.  I was used to typing it all in fast, using the Tab key, and I
> miss that.  Old habits are hard to break.
> ​
>
>> It is just a waste of time and it to me it feels like Google is loosing
>> grip on its own stuff.
>>
>
> ​It is peculiar that this is not a widespread problem.  Yours is the only​
> complaint about it that I've seen.  That would tend to indicate that the
> problem might be unique to your computer, or (shall I say it) to the person
> in front of the computer, not something endemic to Google.
>
> At work, there is a computer I occasionally use, where I have one heck of
> a hard time logging in.  The computer seems to skip keystrokes
> occasionally, and this seems to happen when logging in.  But I can see it
> when I type my email address too.  Stupid computer.
>

It could be the keyboard.  I have seen keyboards go out where some keys
don't work so well anymore.  Or if it is a wireless keyboard I have seen
where either the signal is not good or the battery is dying it misses
keystrokes.

Jeff

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