Ok wise internet folk
Here's the pickle.
two weeks ago I discovered I couldn't get into my yahoo emails.
I have four of them for different parts of my life
When I went to log in it would not accept my password. It would then take me to the 'recovery email' click and get a code
Yahoo Email A - recovery email no longer existed. Eventually it let me answer security questions. I got in and changed my pw and my recovery email to a new legit one
Yahoo Email B - would not take password. Had yahoo email A as a back up so eventually I got in
Yahoo email C - I had deleted this email about four months ago as I no longer used it.
Yahoo email D - which is the one for this blog. Won't accept my password. Recovery email is yahoo email C - which no longer exists and I can't get into.
I am scared to log out of my blogger account as it is hooked up to yahoo email D..which I can't get into.
I am scared that internet gods will log me out of this blog and then I can never get back in because yahoo email D is inaccessible.
SO...... what should I do?
I don't want to lose 9 years of blog entries and your wonderful replies.
Do I set up a new yahoo and then figure out how to back up this blog to that email?
CAN I save all the blog entries from this blog in an easy to transport/export/teleport fashion?
I have never did a back up
I have never moved blog entries.
My knowledge of that is super low.
Thoughts? tips? advice???
UPDATE - I tried creating a new yahoo email and getting it added as admin as a back up in case things go to pot with this. It might have worked. not sure. I hate being tech illiterate :-)
Tuesday, Nice weekend!
1 day ago
5 comments:
Ugh!! I feel your pain - I've changed my yahoo password a million times cause I'm always stuck in the same situation. Is there a way to actually call someone about this? Sometimes you can get a code sent to your cell phone as well... ?
I had put a cell phone number in when I made the account then that would have been a possibility but that was years ago and I didn't. There is no actual number to call.
"IF' I had put a cell...... sheesh lol
So if I'm following this correctly, you don't really care about the Yahoo email account, you're just concerned about the effect it will have on the Blogger account?
You can create a backup of the blog by
1. opening blogger.com,
2. selecting the blog you want to back up (if you have more than one blog),
3. opening settings > other from the menu on the left, and
4. clicking the "back up content" button that will display.
This will create a xml file on your computer. If all else fails, you should be able to recreate your blog under a new address with this backup.
Regarding access to the existing blog --
When you say you added the new Yahoo address as back up, are you talking about the Recovery Email page? (See https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/183723?hl=en&ref_topic=3382296 for a link to the Recovery Email page.)
Google's help page https://support.google.com/blogger/troubleshooter/2980162?hl=en&ref_topic=6321979 has some possibly useful links.
You're definitely not the only person who's had this issue -- it's come up in the forums (https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/blogger). The links below have a fair amount of duplication, but I think they cover all the Blogger options.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/blogger/95usl2Q2wuU;context-place=topicsearchin/blogger/deleted$20email
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/blogger/S4tQEDcu0xo;context-place=topicsearchin/blogger/deleted$20email
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/blogger/t_kqBhnQ0QM
https://productforums.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!category-topic/blogger/R5l2W7ulJB0
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/blogger/ie_VuFlKXrE
Finally, there's something called a "Blogger Legacy Claim" at https://www.blogger.com/legacy-claim.g, but it's not clear to me if this is just for accounts last used prior to 2012.
Good luck, Jolie.
Anon thank you for your reply.
I do care about the original email but based on everything I have read, it appears to be gone.
the 'new jolie' email was successfully added as an admin to this blog in case I get logged out of my blog and need the original email to log back in.
I am glad to know that I did the back up right.
Thank you thank you. Just would hate to lose my 9 years of blogging.
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