I Can't Sign Inward To My Youtube Channel Or Blogger Blog! How To Recover Access.

Note: every bit of August 2014 the method described for recovering YouTube channels is no longer available. The Blogger recovery method all the same works.

Are you lot having problem signing inward to YouTube or Blogger? If you lot created your channel or weblog long ago, you lot may convey fifty-fifty forgotten the e-mail you lot used to sign inward to the account. That tin live on quite frustrating, because that e-mail address is your account's username.

Fortunately at that spot are options for recovering your Google concern human relationship - together with its associated YouTube channel together with Blogger blogs - fifty-fifty if you lot don't recall your account's e-mail username.

• Recover access to your YouTube channel
• YouTube concern human relationship recovery if you lot produce non know the sign-in email
• Recover access to your Blogger blog
• Blogger concern human relationship recovery if you lot produce non know the sign-in email
• Google+ Profile together with Google concern human relationship recovery if you lot don't know the sign-in email
• Set your concern human relationship recovery options now!

Recover access to your YouTube channel

If you lot are having problem signing inward to YouTube, the house to commence is the YouTube login troubleshooter:

https://support.google.com/youtube/troubleshooter/3219097

That volition straight to the appropriate troubleshooter or shape for recovering access to your YouTube account, whether you've forgotten your password, your e-mail or if you lot know both your password together with e-mail address, only all the same cannot access your YouTube channel.

Why commence alongside the troubleshooter?  The concern human relationship recovery options occasionally change, thence past times starting alongside the official login troubleshooter, you lot should ever live on directed to the most up-to-date information.

What if I've forgotten which e-mail to utilization to sign inward to YouTube?

Note: every bit of August 2014, this choice is no longer available. If you lot cannot holler back your YouTube channel's sign-in email, you lot must utilization the Google concern human relationship recovery form together with pick out "I don't know my username"

Currently if your channel has a custom URL or YouTube channel username, together with your YouTube channel is connected to a Google+ Profile (or unconnected to Google+), then you lot tin commence your YouTube concern human relationship recovery procedure at:

www.youtube.com/account_recovery

Enter your YouTube channel username or the terminal purpose of your channel's custom URL inward the form.

My YouTube channel URL is www.youtube.com/user/peggykyt, thence I larn into peggykyt

You volition together with thence live on walked through the concern human relationship recovery process.

Unfortunately this alone industrial plant if your channel is connected to a Google+ Profile, rather than a Google+ Page, you lot volition live on directed to larn into the e-mail address for a managing director or possessor of the Google+ Page.

The alternative is the Google concern human relationship recovery process, which I depict inward to a greater extent than exceptional below.

What if it doesn't work? If you lot convey tried the troubleshooter together with concern human relationship recovery procedure together with you lot all the same cannot access your YouTube channel, delight post a query inward the official YouTube assistance forum.

Recover access to your Blogger blog

If you lot are having problem signing inward or viewing your Blogger blog, the house to commence is the Blogger weblog access troubleshooter:

support.google.com/blogger/troubleshooter/2980162

If you lot cannot holler back the e-mail username for your Blogger account, pick out the commence option: "I can't holler back my password and/or username".

What if I've forgotten which e-mail to utilization to sign into Blogger?

If you lot convey forgotten the e-mail that you lot utilization to sign inward to your Blogger blog, you lot tin currently commence alongside the Blogger "forgot your password" form:

www.blogger.com/forgot.g

There you lot tin enter your blog's blogspot URL together with larn a password reset e-mail sent to all authors together with administrators of the blog.

Note that fifty-fifty if your weblog has a custom domain, you lot must larn into the blogspot URL inward the form. For example, fifty-fifty though this weblog has the custom domain www.peggyktc.com, I would convey to larn into the master copy blogspot URL- gplusintegration.blogspot.com - to live on sent an concern human relationship recovery email.

Click the "Lookup" push clit to ship all the authors of the weblog a password re-set message . You volition too live on shown a hint virtually which addresses were sent the reminder email.

The e-mail you lot have from Blogger back upwards volition non alone convey a password re-set link, only volition too listing all the blogs associated alongside your e-mail address.

If you lot no longer convey access to the e-mail concern human relationship associated alongside your blog, you lot volition convey to become through the Google concern human relationship recovery process, described inward to a greater extent than exceptional below.

What if it doesn't work? If you lot convey tried the troubleshooter together with concern human relationship recovery procedure together with you lot all the same cannot access your Blogger blog, delight post a query inward the official Blogger assistance forum.

Recover access to a Google concern human relationship or Google+ Profile if you've forgotten your e-mail username

If the YouTube or Blogger-specific concern human relationship recovery options don't operate for you, or you lot desire to recover access to a Google+ Profile, you lot volition convey to commence the procedure on the Google concern human relationship recovery page:

www.google.com/accounts/recovery

Your Google concern human relationship username is the e-mail you lot utilization to sign inward to your account. For many accounts this is likely to live on a Gmail email, but it tin live on a dissimilar e-mail address.

If you lot produce non holler back your e-mail address, select the "I don't know my username" choice (even if you lot know your YouTube channel username).

Click the "Continue" push clit together with you lot volition live on shown 2 recovery options.

Enter either your recovery e-mail address or your recovery telephone number, along alongside your Google+ or Google Profile refer together with thence click "Submit".

Google volition together with thence ship you lot a verification code which volition permit you lot run into the Google concern human relationship e-mail usernames associated alongside that telephone publish or recovery e-mail address.

If you lot convey non develop a recovery e-mail address or recovery telephone publish for your account, you lot volition postulate to recall the e-mail username for your account. Hopefully alongside the hints provided past times YouTube or Blogger you lot volition live on able to figure it out.

Set your concern human relationship recovery options now!

The best agency to ensure that you lot volition ever live on able to access your YouTube channel, Blogger blogs, together with Google+ Profile is to brand certain your concern human relationship recovery options are upwards to date.

If you lot haven't develop whatsoever concern human relationship recovery options, or if your telephone publish or recover e-mail has changed, become update your concern human relationship right now!

• How to develop an email recovery address
• How to develop a recovery telephone number

Back Upward Your Youtube Videos!

NEW for Feb 2019: Get directions for backing upward your Brand Account YouTube channel here. 

Do y'all receive got a backup re-create of your YouTube videos? 

If your videos are of import to you, I highly recommend y'all proceed an archived backup on your ain difficult drive, DVDs or other storage location. Fortunately Google Takeout lets y'all download almost all your content stored past times Google - including your YouTube videos - apace together with easily.


Why practice y'all ask a backup? YouTube does non guarantee your videos volition live on accessible forever. Even if y'all keep the access details for YouTube draw of piece of job concern human relationship upward to date, together with keep your Google draw of piece of job concern human relationship secure from hackers your videos tin live on lost if:

• you inadvertently delete your videos. Video deletions on YouTube are permanent!
• you inadvertently delete your YouTube channel or Google account. YouTube channel deletions together with Google draw of piece of job concern human relationship deletions are also permanent!
• your video is removed because of a copyright claim or community guidelines violation
• very occasionally at that topographic point tin live on a glitch inwards the processing of your video that corrupts it, together with hence the video is withal at that topographic point only it looks terrible. This rarely happens, only if it does, having a backup of the master copy video file will allow you to re-upload your video if needed.

While y'all tin download your master copy YouTube video files.

Back upward your master copy videos using Google Takeout 

Google Takeout makes it slow to dorsum upward your information - y'all likely don't fifty-fifty ask the step-by-step instructions! However, banker's complaint that if your YouTube channel is connected to a Google+ Page Brand Account y'all volition receive got to receive got a duet of extra steps to sign inwards to your Page directly.

NEW for Feb 2019: Get directions for backing upward your Brand Account YouTube channel here. 

1. Sign inwards to the Google draw of piece of job concern human relationship linked to your YouTube channel with your electronic mail username together with password.

 If your Youtube channel is connected to a Google+ Page, rather than your personal Google+ Profile, y'all must sign inwards to your Google+ Page directly.  
Learn how to set a password for your Google+ Page.

2. Go to Google Takeout

        i. Open myaccount.google.com
        ii. Under Personal information & privacy click "Control your content"  (myaccount.google.com/privacy#takeout)
       iii. Click CREATE ARCHIVE (www.google.com/settings/takeout)
     

3. Make certain that your channel shout out together with avatar are showing inwards the upper correct corner.

4. Select which information y'all would similar to download. 

If y'all are signed into your Google+ Page, the information volition include your Page's YouTube channel, Google Photos, Blogger blogs together with Google Drive.

To deselect all Google products click the Select none button.

Make certain "YouTube" has a light-green depository fiscal establishment check grade adjacent to it.

You tin learn to a greater extent than together with select about details past times clicking the pocket-sized downwardly arrow v adjacent to each product.

YouTube allows y'all to select all channel data, or solely videos, history, playlists, or subscriptions.

***

Note: if y'all desire to dorsum upward your Blogger blog, y'all must likewise archive your Google Photos albums

It's a proficient reckon to download an archive of all your information periodically. 

5. Click the bluish Next button

6. Customize your download format

Select the archive file type. : A zip file is the default file format, together with tin live on opened on virtually whatsoever computer.  The archive tin likewise live on downloaded equally a compressed tar file (.tgz or .tbz). 

Select the delivery method: You tin either download the archive file to your personal figurer (recommended) or receive got the archive automatically uploaded to Google Drive. If y'all select Google Drive, the archive volition count towards your draw of piece of job concern human relationship storage limit.

7. Click the bluish Create archive button

6. Wait for your archive to live on created. You volition live on sent an electronic mail when it's ready.

7. Download your archive. You volition receive got 1 calendar week to download the archive.

8.  Open your downloaded archive to access your files.

• Windows 8: Zip together with unzip files
• Windows 7: Compress together with uncompress goose egg files
• Windows Vista: Compress together with uncompress goose egg files
• OS X Yosemite (10.10: Compress together with uncompress files together with folders
• OS X Mavericks (10.9): Compress together with uncompress files together with folders
• OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) : Compress together with uncompress files together with folders

Check to construct certain all your videos are there, bearing inwards hear that videos amongst a Content ID fit volition non live on downloaded.

I receive got likewise had occasional problem downloading Hangout on Air recordings - those tin live on downloaded equally MP4s from your video managing director instead.

9. Store your archive where y'all tin detect it when y'all ask to access the backup data

Store your archive someplace secure - proceed it on your figurer (or multiple computers), transfer it to an external difficult drive, or burn downwardly it to DVD. You tin upload it to storage inwards the cloud, equally long equally it's dissever from the Google draw of piece of job concern human relationship y'all purpose to sign inwards to YouTube.

Data storage is inexpensive together with your content is precious - construct a backup of your information regularly!

Updated July 2015 amongst novel screenshots.

Image at top : Video tape archive storage from the archive of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation on Flickr
Shared nether a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0) License

Owner Or Manager? Respect The Possessor Of A Google+ Page As Well As Youtube Channel

Are yous signed inwards equally the possessor of your Google+ Page or YouTube channel? or are yous precisely a manager?  A Google+ Business Page in addition to the YouTube channel connected to it tin accept upwards to 50 managers, but exclusively i owner.

While managers tin portion posts, write comments, in addition to upload videos it is of import to endure able to sign inwards equally the possessor of your of Google+ Page in addition to channel because at that topographic point are or thus features in addition to options exclusively available to owners:

• add in addition to take managers
• transfer ownership of the concern Page in addition to its connected YouTube channel
• transfer your YouTube channel to a dissimilar Google+ Page or Profile
• reset the password to sign into the Google+ Page in addition to channel take
  (required for or thus tertiary political party apps in addition to services)

Hopefully yous accept set upwards your Google+ Page in addition to YouTube concern human relationship thus that yous accept access equally the owner. But if it does plough out that isn't the case, yous all the same accept options for finding - in addition to maybe signing inwards to - the owner's Google account.

Am I signed inwards equally the Owner or a Manager?

• How tin I notice the Owner? Check the Manager settings
• Open the Manager settings when signed inwards to Google+
• Open the Manager settings when signed inwards to YouTube
• Google+ Page Manager Settings shows the Owner in addition to all Managers
• Help! I'm non the Owner! 
• Find the verified emails associated alongside the Google+ Page
• Send a notification to the Owner
• Additional options for Google+ Local Business pages

If yous aren't certain whether yous are signed inwards equally the possessor of the Google+ Page or YouTube channel, cheque your Google+ Page's Managers settings. You tin exercise that either starting from Google+ or starting from YouTube.

Note: if yous have set a password for your Google+ Page, signing inwards to your Page in addition to its connected YouTube channel take volition non give yous access to possessor features. You must sign inwards to the Google concern human relationship in addition to Google+ Profile that is the possessor of the Page.

Open the Managers settings when signed inwards to Google+

1. Open your Google+ Pages dashboard by clicking "Pages" or "All Pages" inwards the left menu, or past times going to take to plus.google.com/dashboard

2. Click the push to "Manage" your Google+ Page. Note that both page owners in addition to managers run across the same bluish "Manage this page" button

2. Once your Page's dashboard opens click the Settings gear icon inwards the left menu

3.  At the top of the Settings page, click the Managers tab

Open your Managers settings from your YouTube channel

1. Sign inwards to YouTube in addition to click your avatar inwards the upper correct corner

2. Click the gear icon at the top of the menu

That volition opened upwards your YouTube Account Settings  (www.youtube.com/account)

3. On your Account settings page click "Add or take managers"

On your Google+ Page Managers tab yous volition run across the Owner in addition to all Managers

Click the profile photograph of the owner. Are yous signed into that account?

It should endure the same Google+ Profile yous run across when yous larn to plus.google.com/me 

Help! I'm non the Owner!

If yous are non signed inwards equally the owner, yous volition accept to sign out of your electrical current account, thus sign dorsum inwards to the owner's Google concern human relationship to endure able add together or take managers, delete your YouTube channel or perform other possessor functions.

If yous exercise non know the electronic mail username in addition to password of the owner's Google account, yous volition ask to figure that out yourself. Google volition non render the owner's concern human relationship details to you, but at that topographic point are a few tricks yous tin try:

Find the verified notification email(s) for the Google+ Page

1. Open your Google+ Page's settings

• While yous are managing the Google+ Page, click the "Settings" Gear icon inwards the left menu
• Or if yous are on YouTube, opened upwards Account Settings > Email (www.youtube.com/account_notifications) in addition to click
  "Change electronic mail preferences for comments in addition to replies inwards Google+ notification settings"

2. Scroll downward to the Notification Delivery settings

If the default notification electronic mail address has non been changed, it volition tell "Notifications are currently delivered to the page owner's notification address".

3. Click the "Change" link on the correct side

4. All of the verified emails associated alongside the Google+ Page volition endure listed, in addition to that will unremarkably include the Google+ Page owner's email.

5. Sign inwards to Google using the electronic mail address equally the concern human relationship username. If at that topographic point are multiple verified electronic mail notification addresses, endeavor signing to Google+ alongside each one.

Use the Google concern human relationship recovery procedure to reset your account's password if ask be

https://www.google.com/accounts/recovery

Send a message to the Google+ Page owner

If that procedure is non successful, or the possessor is someone other than yourself, yous tin try sending a message to the Google+ Page's electrical current owner

• make a novel post on Google+ alongside a + refer of the Google+ Page 
• send a somebody message to the YouTube channel
• send an electronic mail message to each verified electronic mail address

In each of those cases a notification electronic mail should endure sent in addition to hopefully received in addition to read past times the owner.

Help accessing Verified Local Pages

If yous accept a verified Google+ Local Business Page, yous accept i additional option to regain ownership: Google My Business back upwards may endure able to care yous regain access. See the instructions here: Someone else verified my business

Once signed in, the Owner of the concern human relationship has the selection of transferring ownership of the Google+ Page in addition to its connected YouTube channel.

Recovering Your Gmail Based Blogger Account

We've been seeing also many complaints from weblog owners who never bothered to recollect their Blogger concern human relationship advert or password, together with who similar a shot cannot login to Blogger.

Help me! My e-mail address changed terminal month, together with similar a shot I can't sign inwards to my blog!

Everybody makes mistakes - simply non all mistakes are equal inwards consequence.

In around cases, the complaints are from people who can't access the original, non GMail e-mail account, because the concern human relationship is similar a shot defunct. Even the "Forgot?" wizard is useless. Reading betwixt the lines, nosotros may run across details.

Help Me! I never bothered to recollect my password - I used the Forgot Password magician to reset my password every fourth dimension I wanted to sign inwards to my Blogger account. My e-mail address changed terminal month, I can't teach the e-mail from the Forgot Password wizard, together with similar a shot I can't sign inwards to my blog!

Blogger weblog owners beingness every bit they are, they e'er demo us exciting, novel ways to brand mistakes. This month, we're seeing similar reports, from people who can't piece of job their GMail based Blogger accounts.

I tried using the "Forgot?" wizard, simply instead of giving me a hint it told me that it would shipping an e-mail to my GMail account. This doesn't assistance me at all - considering I don't recollect my e-mail address!

Fortunately, at that spot is a means around this problem, too.

If your Blogger concern human relationship is based on a GMail account, teach to the GMail login display. As amongst every Google login display, you'll honor a helpful link.

Can't access your account?

Clicking on that link, you'll teach the Google accounts "Forgot your password?" wizard.

The around obvious department of the "Forgot your password?" display volition hold upwardly the offer

If yous are a Gmail user, type your Gmail username.

This won't hold upwardly terribly useful, when yous conduct maintain forgotten the concern human relationship advert (GMail address). Fortunately, there's a minute selection here.

Forgot your username?

Clicking on that link, yous teach the Google accounts "Forgot your username?" wizard.

Hopefully, yous tin dismiss recollect the recovery e-mail address, that yous provided when yous setup the GMail account.

Please teach inwards the recovery e-mail address yous provided when creating your account.

You have to know something, to recover access to your blog. If your Blogger concern human relationship is based on a non GMail e-mail address, yous may conduct maintain a similar possibility. And when yous depository fiscal establishment tally your e-mail accounts, GMail or non GMail, check persistently.

As yous buy the farm along amongst the login / recovery process, hold upwardly aware of the nature of Blogger accounts, e-mail accounts, together with Google accounts. And when yous login, use the "One account" login procedure properly.

Recovering Your Not Gmail Based Blogger Account

Like problems amongst people who can't recollect their GMail e-mail addresses, we're seeing complaints from weblog owners who never bothered to recollect their non GMail based Blogger delineate of piece of job concern human relationship refer or password, in addition to who instantly cannot login to Blogger.

Help me! My previous e-mail delineate of piece of job concern human relationship is defunct, in addition to instantly I can't access my blog!

Everybody makes mistakes - in addition to roughly mistakes must hold upward resolved past times the weblog owners.

Just equally GMail provides the possibility of recovering your GMail e-mail address, in addition to hence exercise well-nigh world non GMail e-mail services. Yahoo, for instance, has a link I can't access my account which leads to their wizard.

Looks similar you lot quest roughly help?

Here, you lot cause got iv choices.

1. I forgot my password
2. My password doesn't work
3. I forgot my Yahoo! ID
4. My delineate of piece of job concern human relationship may cause got been compromised

Similar to selections provided past times GMail, hither you lot may meet roughly possibilities to larn your Yahoo e-mail delineate of piece of job concern human relationship dorsum inwards order, in addition to hence you lot tin recover your Yahoo based Blogger account.

Other e-mail services, hopefully, cause got similar utilities. You'll well-nigh probable cause got to brand roughly endeavor to seek out who you lot are, to whatsoever of these services - but if you lot try, you'll in all probability larn your Blogger delineate of piece of job concern human relationship dorsum a lot sooner than but posting inwards Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken

Help me!

And when you lot banking concern jibe your e-mail accounts, GMail or non GMail, check persistently. And, hold upward prepared for seeing spoof filtering effects.

As you lot proceed amongst the login / recovery process, hold upward aware of the nature of Blogger accounts, e-mail accounts, in addition to Google accounts. And when you lot login, use the "One account" login procedure properly.

Blogger Is Non Blocking Access To Your Blog

I've explained the issues almost Blogger job organization human relationship maintenance, together with weblog access, together with then many times.

I've described it every bit possession existence the law, or every bit reading betwixt the lines, or fifty-fifty every bit responsible practice - together with roughly people simply don't empathise these issues. Some people essay to pull their problem, when they accept a problem, every bit Blogger unlawfully stealing their possession.

Blogger won't give me access to my weblog - create I ask a courtroom club to function past times access to my blog, together with to my content?

At starting fourth dimension glance, they accept a cry for - Blogger has to give us access to our blogs, or they halt existence our blogs. If you lot hold off closer though, there's a flaw inward that reasoning.

Blogger lets you lot rank out a blog, without identifying yourself legally to them, every bit long every bit you lot retain command of the blog.

To retain control, you lot accept to access a Blogger job organization human relationship that owns the blog. You accept 2 methods of access, to whatever Blogger job organization human relationship - a front end door, together with a dorsum door.

1. The front end door: The job organization human relationship cite (email address when setup originally), together with the electrical flow password.
2. The dorsum door: The electronic mail address currently associated alongside the account, together with access to that electronic mail address.

If you lot lose both the front end door together with the dorsum door, you lot can't access the Blogger account, together with you lot can't command the blog. If you lot lose access, don't blame Blogger for your loss of access.

Blogger is non preventing you lot from accessing your blog, together with doing whatever you lot wish, alongside your weblog - every bit long every bit you lot tin sack examine that it's your blog. Blogger volition assistance you, when possible, to access your Blogger account, together with your blog.

When you lot function past times inward impossible, every bit when you lot lose both the front end door together with the dorsum door, they can't assistance you. If they can't assistance you lot now, they volition yet concur the blog, patiently, until you lot are able to examine that it's your blog.

Your weblog is yet there, waiting for you lot to access it. It volition stay there, waiting for you lot to access it. Blogger is non preventing you lot from accessing your blog.

June 2012 Graduates Should Showtime Planning Now

The give-and-take most Blogger trouble organisation human relationship as well as spider web log access recovery, as well as authentication requirements, never ends.

Account / spider web log ownership recovery is non at all a elementary issue. Occasionally, nosotros come across the extreme cases, as well as the frustration.

I made 2 blogs for schoolhouse inward im pretty certain 2009, so 3 years afterwards I am no longer at that school, as well as it was registered alongside that schoolhouse email, hence I convey no access to this e-mail anymore, as well as the e-mail trouble organisation human relationship has most probable been deleted. I actually require to delete these blogs because at that topographic point are photos of people on at that topographic point as well as they dont desire them there.

My personal sentiment is that the solution is obvious. If y'all cannot keep either primary access (account cite as well as password) or secondary access (access to a working e-mail account) to your Blogger account, y'all should non set out a Blogger blog.

My sentiment is non e'er good received, inward Blogger Help forum. Some people convey criticised me for my apparent lack of compassion, for the improvident spider web log owners. My sympathy is alongside blog owners, inward general.

My most recent FAQ discussing this issue seems to convey reduced - simply non eliminated - the criticism.

One pop scenario seems to involve people who latterly underwent an e-mail address transition - for instance, latterly graduating from college, as well as having to of a abrupt alter e-mail addresses.

In the past, 1 pop activity, involved inward the oftentimes repeated scenario "I don't convey access to my e-mail trouble organisation human relationship whatsoever to a greater extent than and, of course, never bothered to recollect my password" would typically offset alongside the plea

Please, tin forcefulness out Blogger order me my e-mail address??!!

and Blogger Support would helpfully render a hint

Your e-mail address is r****or @ gmail . com

or possibly

Your e-mail address is r****** @ ***e . edu

Many of those requests convey come upwards from people who, every bit college students, had created 1 or to a greater extent than blogs of frivolous or offensive content, that require to endure deleted at nowadays (ignoring the blatant lack of mightiness to essay their ownership of the blog(s) inward question).

This isn't an odd scenario, amidst young people. We should authorities notation that most college grads tin forcefulness out hopefully recollect the cite of the college attended, so the hint "***e . edu" should non endure every bit good obscure for the graduates themselves.

Recent developments inward Blogger trouble organisation human relationship recovery makes me hopeful that Blogger volition shortly eliminate the empty-headed trouble organisation human relationship cite hints, as well as offset relying exclusively upon automated recovery processes. I practise non mean value that it's unreasonable to hold off that, past times June 2012, those preparing to graduate from college should consider their post graduation action checklist alongside roughly care.

• File forwarding address for all postal mail.
• Pack upwards as well as movement all personal possessions inward dormitory room.
• Return rented as well as borrowed books as well as similar materials to owners.

It's possible that they could add

• Setup a HotMail, GMail, or Yahoo e-mail account.
• Transfer command of all personal Blogger blogs to a novel Blogger account, based upon the novel e-mail account.

And perchance even

• Remember the novel Blogger account name, as well as password.

Like Blogger spider web log ownership every bit a corporate resource, Blogger trouble organisation human relationship administration deserves roughly planning. If y'all are looking frontward to graduating inward June 2012, why non offset preparing for graduation, now?

Account Recovery, Authentication, Contact, Privacy, As Well As Url Availability Are All Related

Every day, nosotros acquire diverse impassioned pleas from spider web log owners (active, former, in addition to would be), inwards referring to diverse other concerns.

Blogger Support, to a greater extent than or less fourth dimension ago, confirmed our correct to privacy, every bit spider web log owners.

Our policies aren't pro-stalker, they are pro-respecting the privacy of user information. We merely tin non liberate information without due process.

Effective role of the Internet requires to a greater extent than or less sum of ownership privacy.
The concept of Internet privacy inwards general, in addition to spider web log possessor privacy specifically, has legendarily been business office of to a greater extent than or less major globe political events. If nosotros every bit spider web log owners are going to retain our rights to privacy every bit spider web log owners, nosotros receive got to last aware of the limitations, in addition to the results.

Not all spider web log owners are aware of the complex natures of Blogger authentication. We receive got 2 long used authentication options - concern human relationship get upwards / password (primary), in addition to backup e-mail access (secondary).

Some spider web log owners reject to call back their concern human relationship get upwards in addition to password, routinely.
Some owners routinely ignore the primary option, in addition to role the secondary, regularly. When their e-mail address changes because they modify employer, graduate from college, or modify ISP, nosotros come across the plaintive cry from onetime owners

I necessitate Blogger to ship the recovery e-mail to my novel address!

or

I can't role my previous e-mail account!

To foreclose the latter issue, Blogger / Google lately introduced a third authentication alternative - SMS / Voice Recovery. This allows us to role a text message (SMS transmitted), or a vocalization message ("home" telephone transmitted), to the "cell phone" or "home phone" of our choice. This approach, non universally popular, causes another privacy concern.

• It requires advance action. People currently unable to role the primary or secondary authentication options are non going to observe a solution here.
• It requires the spider web log possessor to register a "cell phone" or "home phone" number. People amongst privacy concerns don't appreciate this.

  I'm non giving Google my telephone number!

  as if Google intends to add together us to to a greater extent than or less other telephone spam database.

There is no Blogger required minimum publishing level.
Another privacy number involves people who think that spider web log ownership involves some minimal publishing activity, in addition to who require role of the Blog URL to match their spider web log dependent area in addition to title.

I necessitate contact to the possessor of spider web log xxxxxxx!

Here, the would last spider web log possessor ignores the owner's correct to privacy, inwards requiring contact information.

Some people asking that Blogger monitor posting level, in addition to contact inactive spider web log owners.

Can Blogger precisely e-mail owners of blogs amongst no posts for a year, in addition to inquire them to confirm their intention to continue? Those who don't response tin receive got their blogs taken away, hence mortal else tin brand ameliorate role of the URL.

These would last owners look to think that all Blogger accounts are based on active in addition to valid e-mail addresses, in addition to that all URLs should last universally monitored.

Blogger can't satisfy everybody - y'all may receive got to pick an available URL!
The bottom draw of piece of employment hither is that at that topographic point are several limitations, that nosotros may receive got to acquire to alive with.

• Blogger won't disclose spider web log possessor details, gratuitously.
• You, in addition to y'all alone, are responsible for maintaining command of your blogs.
• If a given URL is non available, observe i that is available now, in addition to start your blog, today.

Compromise, in addition to motility forward. Remember, blog content is the value, inwards your Internet presence. Don't require that Blogger compromise security, to give y'all improper access to your blog.

Bloggers Trying To Login, Seeing The Page Isn't Redirecting Properly, Revisited

For unopen to fourth dimension recently, we've been seeing numerous reports from people inwards Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, unable to successfully login to Blogger.

I cannot log into Blogger - I proceed getting this error

The page isn't redirecting properly.

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the asking for this address inwards a manner that volition never complete.

In a few cases, nosotros identified the underlying campaign of the work every bit disabling or refusing to receive got cookies, or like overly aggressive layered safety procedures too settings. Feedback from unopen to forum members, who were able to supply details, suggests unopen to other cause. The work may endure simpler - or to a greater extent than complex - to resolve.

Some of the forum members, who reported this problem, every bit good reported a work alongside their Google+ accounts. Blogger spider web log owners, attempting to login to a Blogger describe organisation human relationship which uses a Google+ profile, generate a redirect to the Google+ servers. If the associated Google+ describe organisation human relationship has a problem, you lot receive got unopen to other campaign of the redirection problem.

The solution hither is uncomplicated - take the Google+ association. Unfortunately, this tin endure done alone when logged inwards to the Blogger / Google account.

1. Fix the work alongside the Google+ account. It may endure possible, alternately, to revert from a Google+ profile, to a Google profile.
2. Login to Blogger, too to Google.
3. Transfer ownership of the blog(s), using the Permissions wizard too using two form out browsers or computers.
4. Remember that you are at 1 time responsible for maintaining ii Google accounts.
5. Done.

But await - why non simplify - merely a bit?

1. Fix the work alongside the Google+ account.
2. Change your Blogger describe organisation human relationship dorsum to using a Classic Blogger profile.

Or, fifty-fifty simpler.

1. Fix the work alongside the Google+ account.

If you lot tin ready the Google+ describe organisation human relationship problem, don't worry virtually the Blogger problem. Get back to work, on your blog. And don't produce anything to intermission your Google+ account.

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Mass Confusion Caused Past Times Legacy Concern Human Relationship Migration

In 2012, Blogger started the side yesteryear side stage of the Legacy Account migration process.

For several days, nosotros saw majority confusion, inwards Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken.

Why am I getting this email? Is it a scam?

and

I can't migrate my account!

and

I migrated my account, too my blogs disappeared from my dashboard!!

The people targeted inwards the email were registered owners of legacy (pre 2006) Blogger accounts, created earlier Blogger started using Google (email address based) accounts.

The confused owners are like to the ones amongst whom nosotros accept been dealing for several months, unable to find access to their long dormant Blogger / Google accounts.

Many practice non recollect creating accounts, others don't recollect the login details, which are essential to spider web log control.

Both the spider web log owners, too Blogger, contributed to the confusion.

The confusion was caused jointly yesteryear Blogger, too yesteryear the spider web log owners. And, it was not a surprise, to Blogger Support.

The confusion started amongst the history of the migration.

• In 2007, Blogger offered the chance to transfer command of owned blogs, to a novel Google based account, when mortal attempted to login to their legacy Blogger account.
• People never logging inwards to Blogger afterwards 2007 never got the offering to migrate.
• Some people elected to non migrate - but setup novel Google accounts too manually transferred command of their blogs - too left some legacy accounts inactive too without whatever owned blogs.
• Last year, Blogger warned people that the terminate of life, of the legacy accounts, was inevitable.

  For a number of technical too operational reasons, we’ve decided to finally terminate our back upward for migrating legacy accounts too blogs afterwards December 5th, 2011. So if y'all accept a Blogger concern human relationship too haven’t logged inwards since 2007, y'all volition lose access to the concern human relationship too associated content permanently unless y'all update to the Google Account organization earlier December 5th.

• Last week, Blogger took the side yesteryear side step.

  You are receiving this message because your e-mail address is associated amongst an unmigrated legacy Blogger account. As nosotros announced inwards Apr of lastly year, legacy accounts volition no longer live accessible afterwards May 30th, 2012 unless they are updated to the Google Account system. Any spider web log content associated amongst this concern human relationship volition also live unmodifiable afterwards that date.

• The emails went to registered owners of all unmigrated legacy accounts, whether or non whatever concern human relationship owned a blog.

The confusion was magnified yesteryear issues caused yesteryear the diverse spider web log owners.

• Blogger insists on making it slow to practice a Blogger account, oftentimes resulting inwards non intentional creation of multiple Blogger accounts. Some people, for instance, may accept created Blogger accounts to post comments, on other blogs.
• Some people receiving the e-mail had stopped using Blogger, long ago.
• Other people had continued using Blogger, but amongst newly created Blogger accounts - too only ignored the unused legacy accounts.
• Many people, overlooking the fact that the migration had started inwards 2007, became unhappy that they were given exclusively 1 calendar month to conclude what they had been given, to appointment - v years.
• Too many people, non having used their legacy accounts since 2006, were unable to recollect the concern human relationship advert or password, too were forced to purpose the "Forgot your password?" wizard.
• Some people, anxiously awaiting the arrival of the password reset email, constitute that this critical e-mail is subject to e-mail spam filters - too now, to email spoofing filters (and the ii are non the same).
• Some people managing to consummate the migration - but amongst their blogs owned yesteryear a dissever (newer) Google based Blogger concern human relationship - watched inwards horror equally their blogs appeared to disappear from their dashboards. The migration created a novel account, leaving their of import blogs owned yesteryear their previously created Blogger / Google account, which became inaccessible to them.

The confusion continued, amongst multiple scenarios.

The history, addition the issues, resulted inwards several scenarios - each resulting inwards an unhappy concern human relationship owner.

• Owners amongst a migrated previously legacy Blogger concern human relationship (created inwards 2007), too 1 or to a greater extent than un migrated legacy Blogger accounts. These people accept 1 or to a greater extent than legacy Blogger accounts (that they don't know about), addition an already migrated previously legacy concern human relationship (that can't live migrated, again).
• Owners amongst a Google based Blogger concern human relationship (created inwards 2007), too 1 or to a greater extent than un migrated legacy Blogger accounts. These people accept 1 or to a greater extent than legacy Blogger accounts (that they don't know about), addition a Google based Blogger concern human relationship (that can't live migrated).
• Owners amongst a unmarried un migrated legacy Blogger account, unable to migrate because of forgotten concern human relationship advert or password. These people accept a legacy Blogger concern human relationship (that tin live migrated, if they know the concern human relationship name, too the password).
• Owners amongst a single, newly migrated legacy Blogger concern human relationship (created this week, amongst no blogs), too a previously migrated or created Google concern human relationship (created inwards 2007, amongst the owned blogs). These people are straightaway logged inwards to Blogger amongst a novel Blogger account, too cannot access their blogs, owned yesteryear their previous Blogger account.

The unhappy recipients of the email, next the instructions provided to them, posted their complaints inwards Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken.

If y'all accept questions, delight see our Help Forum at http://www.google.com/appserve/mkt/OKddNnCN05400K too practice a message amongst [legacy Account] inwards the dependent land line.

Confusion was magnified yesteryear forum complaints, too inability to help.

The confusion spread, equally the forums became saturated yesteryear the complaints. Not all complaints used the "[legacy Account]" tag, suggested inwards the instructions. This motivated diverse forum helpers to purpose fuzzy processing techniques inwards sorting diverse forum complaints, too some non legacy issues were treated equally legacy issues. Other legacy issues were overlooked, inwards the book of posts.

Blogger Support, becoming aware of the numbers of complaints, created a legacy Account FAQ, too started answering questions, posted inwards the FAQ. And the frustration became expressed inwards various FAQ responses.

This is clearly non working out good for Blogger. In the truthful concern world, heads whorl when fails are too thence epic.

This spider web log possessor is overlooking the history too the issues, too making no acknowledgement of his contribution to the problem.

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(Update 2012/04/30 10:00): Blogger Support has straightaway provided a form, for any legacy concern human relationship possessor to use, to asking details.

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Mass Confusion Caused By Legacy Account Migration


Challenges Created By Legacy Account Migration

Blogger Provides Details Close Un Migrated Legacy Accounts

Blogger Support, inwards observing the confusion caused past times the recent email most unmigrated legacy Blogger accounts, has taken activity to trim down the confusion.

For the people unsure or unaware of what un migrated legacy accounts they may have, they at nowadays have got a "Blogger legacy delineate of piece of employment organisation human relationship information request" form. It's a really uncomplicated course of report - simply you lot volition hold upward expected to practice patience, earlier you lot have actual detail.

Retrieving details most un migrated legacy accounts is really simple, for whatever delineate of piece of employment organisation human relationship owner, having received e-mail most an "unmigrated legacy Blogger account".

Provide the e-mail address, where you lot received the "unmigrated accounts notice".


You similar a shot larn a uncomplicated acknowledgement.


The procedure of retrieving the legacy delineate of piece of employment organisation human relationship details is non automated. Once you lot submit your e-mail address, in addition to larn the uncomplicated acknowledgement, you lot may have got to hold off two or three days, earlier you lot larn e-mail alongside the anxiously awaited details. But you lot have got a calendar month to larn the migration completed.

So larn started, this calendar week - in addition to larn this component subdivision of your life out of the way.

The Fourth Dimension Window To Restore A Deleted Google Trouble Concern Human Relationship Is Limited

We've known for a spell close the express mightiness for Blogger to restore a deleted blog. Recently, nosotros learned close a second, in addition to perhaps to a greater extent than severe, restore limit.

Google Accounts: Deleting or restoring a Google account warns us that the mightiness to restore a deleted Google concern human relationship is limited.

If you lot accidentally deleted your Google Account, you lot tin endeavor to restore it past times going to our password assistance page inside a express window of fourth dimension afterwards deletion.

Without whatever authoritative rootage to quote, I am told that the "limited window" is less than a concern week.

If you lot delete your Google account, you lot bring to bring the concern human relationship restored - non recreated - if you lot promise to find role of your Blogger concern human relationship - in addition to (if necessary) bring your blogs besides restored. If this happens, you lot volition ask to deed rapidly - in addition to promise that you lot tin provide the necessary details, to find command of your concern human relationship in addition to / or blogs.

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The Novel Gui (2011) Is Hither - Together With Is Non Going Away

Last month, Blogger took the adjacent step inward making us role the New Blogger GUI, too started migrating our accounts, aggressively. This modify did non delight a lot of people.

Why won't Google acknowledge the novel interface is an speak failure, too fleck it?

This is an instance of misguided optimism. Blogger is non only going to fleck it.

The people such every bit inward the latter example, who are protesting the coming of the New Blogger Interface, are making 3 mistakes.

1. They are wasting their ain fourth dimension too energy, protesting.
2. They are non telling people, specifically, what problems they see.
3. They are encouraging other people to waste matter fourth dimension too energy.

The New Blogger Interface is non going to drib dead away - nor is it an speak failure.

No previously controversial Blogger features, seen inward the past, direct maintain been scrapped.

• Auto pagination.
• Automated describe of piece of occupation concern human relationship too weblog recovery.
• Spam mitigation.

Each of those features direct maintain received far to a greater extent than criticism than The New GUI - fifty-fifty considering the problems discovered, inward The New GUI, to date. And, each of those features are nonetheless inward house - too are tuned, occasionally.

Better larn used to it, folks. The New Blogger Interface will, eventually, drib dead The Blogger Interface - with, or without, your approval. If you lot desire to scope something, enjoin everybody what, specifically, you lot consider to hold upwards a problem. Just enjoin everybody what problems you lot see, piece at that spot is nonetheless fourth dimension to larn something done - earlier nosotros come across a Gear icon, alongside no bill of fare entry for "Old Blogger interface", on everybody's dashboard.

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(Update 9/19): This week, the goal exactly got here.

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Attention June 2012 Graduates: Transfer Ownership Of Your Blogger Blogs, Now

As yous pack upwards your personal belongings, as well as unopen downward your diverse pupil activities related to your college / academy life, you're in all likelihood spending approximately fourth dimension creating diverse traces, to betoken to your novel life, which is at in 1 trial starting. One such action would involve filing diverse "change of address" notifications, for people / services who communicate alongside yous through postal mail, addressed to the college postal address which yous use.

Similar to postal mail, yous in all likelihood accept a college e-mail address, issued to yous when yous registered every bit a student. Hopefully yesteryear now, yous accept setup a non college e-mail account, as well as are busy filling out alter of address "notifications" for the many services which communicate alongside yous through email. As yous produce this, yous should mean value of your Blogger account, which owns your Blogger blogs.

Before yous lose access to your Blogger account that's based on your college e-mail account, setup a novel Blogger account, based on your novel non college e-mail address. Then, transfer command of your blog(s), to your novel Blogger account.

Don't delay - produce this at in 1 trial - earlier yous destination upwards asking for help that can't last provided.

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Legacy Accounts Are No Longer Supported

Today, I was advising the latest legacy Blogger trouble organisation human relationship holdout.

I got the electronic mail that says

You are receiving this message because your electronic mail address is associated amongst an unmigrated legacy Blogger account. As nosotros announced inwards Apr of in conclusion year, legacy accounts volition no longer endure accessible later on May 30th, 2012 unless they are updated to the Google Account system. Any spider web log content associated amongst this trouble organisation human relationship volition likewise endure unmodifiable later on that date.

Upon reporting this latest back upward postulate to Blogger, I was advised of the distressing reality, past times a Blogger Engineer.

Legacy back upward has been deprecated.

We direct maintain seen this coming, for a long fourth dimension - in addition to it has finally arrived.

It's possible that the Legacy Claim form may attention yous - though the queue for activity tin endure a week, or more. Here, equally always, yous direct maintain a much amend gamble of success if yous know both the Username in addition to Password.

Alternately, if yous tin setup a novel Blogger account, elbow grease recovering the blog into the novel account. Alternately, checkout the Known Blogger Issues article, for some possible solutions.

Other than that, allow Blogger future chance for trouble organisation human relationship hacking.

What this advice agency is uncomplicated - if your blog(s) are owned past times a legacy Blogger account, that account, in addition to blog(s), is immediately frozen, if the Claim Form is non useful.

• You can't convert your account.
• You can't update your blog(s).

You direct maintain been warned, repeatedly. Now, Blogger has moved on - in addition to yous can't endure helped.

• They won't delete your blog.
• They won't accept the URL away from you.
• You can't delete or update the spider web log - or re operate the URL.

If yous wishing to let on using Blogger, start a novel blog, nether a novel Blogger account. If you're hither because yous direct maintain non published your spider web log since 2006, the changes to Blogger direct maintain been in addition to thence extensive that you'll endure starting over, anyway. Start a novel spider web log - yous tin e'er include the onetime blog, inwards the novel one, equally static content.

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(Update 2015/05): It appears that the deadline has passed, for unopen to remaining unmigrated accounts.

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If Your Weblog Was Deleted, It's Proficient To Know Why

Of the many occupation reports that nosotros run into inwards Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, maybe the close ambiguous mightiness be

My spider web log was deleted. How create I acquire my spider web log back?

The confusion, evidenced here, is normal - precisely overlooking the argue for the deletion tin waste materials fourth dimension - as well as delay or foreclose getting the spider web log restored.

Any fourth dimension somebody reports a deleted blog, it's skillful to reckon the possible causes for deletion.

1. Was the spider web log deleted past times the owner?
2. Was the spider web log deleted past times Blogger - every bit a suspected abusive content host?
3. Was the spider web log deleted - because the owning Blogger concern human relationship was locked past times Blogger / Google?

Each of these possibilities tin bring unlike consequences - unlike recovery protocols - as well as unlike prognoses. To avoid wasting fourth dimension - as well as touching on the options for recovery - it's skillful to triage the diagnosis.

Only the spider web log possessor tin recover a deleted spider web log - nether specific cases.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 spider web log deleted past times the possessor must live on recovered past times the owner. If the spider web log was deleted because the owning Blogger concern human relationship was deleted, the owning concern human relationship has to live on restored, to start. And the fourth dimension limit, for restoring a blog, deleted past times the owner, is limited.

A spider web log deleted for TOS violation must live on restored, past times Blogger, afterward review.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 spider web log deleted past times Blogger, every bit a suspected abusive content (malware, porn, spam) host, must live on no fourth dimension limit for either initiation or completion.

A spider web log locked, because the owning concern human relationship was locked, requires concern human relationship review.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 spider web log deleted past times Blogger because of a deleted or locked Blogger account, likewise, has no fourth dimension limit. However, at that spot are ii possibilities here.

1. If the Blogger concern human relationship was locked for "suspicious activity", the concern human relationship must live on unlocked, next possessor asking - as well as thence the possessor must wait, patiently, for the blog(s) to live on verified as well as restored to service.
2. If the concern human relationship was deleted, because of ownership of other blogs suspected every bit spam hosts, all blogs suspected must live on reviewed.

Here, having the Blogger concern human relationship associated amongst an active e-mail account is a necessity, for finding the alarm notices from Blogger, as well as deducing which drive contributed to the deletion. And, nosotros run into nevertheless about other argue for limiting your role of multiple e-mail / GMail accounts.

Start past times making certain that y'all (or about other owner) did non delete the blog.

Bearing inwards heed the express fourth dimension window for getting an possessor deleted spider web log restored, it's a skillful thought to commencement pose all possessor initiated deletions. If nosotros hold off for Blogger to review the blog, every bit a suspected spam host, as well as they answer with

The spider web log was trashed past times the owner.

this won't assistance the possessor when he realises

Oh yeah, I may bring deleted it - final yr (and over xc days ago!).

Some blogs may live on missing from the dashboard - precisely non deleted.

Occasionally, blogs missing from the dashboard may live on confused for blogs deleted. Some spider web log owners, abruptly faced with

You are non nevertheless an writer ...

may croak confused, as well as intend that a spider web log has been deleted.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 spider web log possessor amongst multiple Blogger accounts - having intentionally anonymised himself, or maybe because of inadvertently creating an additional Blogger account, may intend that a spider web log has been deleted. Hopefully, this volition non Pb to creating a instant blog, amongst a similar address.

Know how to question whatever deletion problem.

If you're able to login to Blogger, know how to identify your Blogger profile or how to identify your Google+ profile. If you're non able to login, larn how to login, properly - as well as possibly, why y'all are non able to login.