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 -- 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/d/optout.
