Can you fix my login User name?
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I am not sure how this happened but my username has a space and a zero in it. I have never seen any login, anywhere that allowed an embedded space. I changed my password so many times before I realized it had a space followed by a zero. When I enter these, it works. You can delete my account if that is easier and I will build a new one as this is the only post I have made under this user OR just take the space and the zero out of this account and that will work too.
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Thanks,
Dave (Account name DaveC 0) -
@DaveC-0 there isn't a space its a dash..
Maybe an Admin can edit it? But there is another just davec account
Can you not edit your own username?
I don't seem to have the option of changing yours that I see.. But again there is another just davec account
edit... Ok I can change it... Changed it to DaveC0 without any space.. But you should be able to change it to what you want.. That doesn't conflict with any other user accounts.
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Thanks for doing this. I see it is now DaveC0 which is fine for me. I will update my password vault to note the change. Have a great weekend.
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Hi! I have the almost same problem! I now have three accounts and may it be merged to only one? My story is began approximately in 2017, I remember that something change in forum and users must be recreate their accounts or something like that. My name is Volui, and my account name also has been named as Volui, now that account is not active since 2017 because i couldn't create then (in 2017) new account with same name as old acc. Then I create a new account vith name Volui 0, and then (i can not remember why) I made thrid account with name Voluisrv. Now I have 3 accounts wih different names but its all me! =) I have a question - it is possible to merge it in one account with name Volui. Or just delete my old accounts with names Volui and Voluisrv and rename that acount (Volui 0) to simple Volui without zero in the end. I can confirm by E-mail ownership of both Volui 0 and Voluisrv accounts but not the Volui because i don't remember wich of email i used to register that account. Or maybe there are some other options?
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@Volui-0 Hmmm that is an interesting question. Not sure if we can merge acounts like that.. Do you have a lot of posts under these other accounts..
Let me call out to @stephenw10 on what might be the best course of action.
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@johnpoz Sure! Thanks!
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Hmm, good question. Not something I've ever tried. Let me see....
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Ok so the 2nd user, Voluisrv, has no posts we could just remove that account?
Do you no longer have access to the email address from the original account?
I don't see any options to merge accounts so if we do anything it would probably have to be manual.
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@stephenw10 Yes, 2nd account (Voluisrv) may be just removed. I'll try did this by myself. And about the old account, which is original one (account name "Volui"), I tried all email addresses i have and no one didn't match. I'am really can't remember wich address I use many ears ago.
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Ok, I just removed one of my old account (Voluisrv), only the second one remains, the original one (Volui) and my current account from which I am writing now (Volui 0).
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@Volui-0 I can see email address on the other Volui account..
Would still have access to this account, if I sent an email too it?
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@johnpoz Of course, you can try sending an email to this address, but I don't quite understand why you "may lose access to this account." English is not my native language, sorry. The thing is that not only do I not remember the name of the mailbox of that account, but I’m also not sure that I still have access to it at all. I changed Internet providers several years ago and I will definitely never have access to one of my old email addresses again. And if on my original account I used that old address, then there will simply be no way for me to receive an email from you or if I try to recover my password through the forum systems, even if I remember that old email address. One of my old emails to which I definitely no longer have access is volui@akado.ru. Perhaps I will remember some other mailboxes, but in any case, I only have access to email in the domain yandex.ru and @gmail.com. There is also an one address on gmail, but I gave it to my sister, so perhaps letters about resetting the password are now coming to her =)))). I tried to write which addresses I have access to, hiding part of the address with a “*” mask, but the spam filter does not allow such messages.
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@Volui-0 that other account only has 5 posts on it - most likely we could just delete that one as well ;) I didn't see when the last post was on it.. When I get a chance I will take a closer look at the posts... Think you can change owner of them.. Only 5 that wouldn't be hard to do manually. Then could delete that account.
I was just curious if I sent email to it, and you got it you could then delete the account on your own if you wanted, etc.
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Just sent email, account is from 2010.. Shame to loose history of how long ago you created an account..edit2: got a kickback, email address no longer even valid.. Let me look if can just change owner of the posts.
edit3: ok I moved ownership of the old post to this account.. But I can not actually delete accounts.. @stephenw10 would have to do that, he is admin.. Global mod can't delete accounts.
Once he deletes it, you could rename this account to not have the 0 on it I would think.
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@johnpoz While I was writing you an answer, you already solved the question =). So I was right - the email from that old account has long been lost, then all that remains is to wait for @stephenw10's response regarding the deletion of the old account and then I will be able to edit my name on this entry. Thank you!
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Or, if it’s not too late, is it possible to simply change the email address on my old account to the current one? Then I could continue to use the old account by deleting this one instead? In any case, let's see what the admin says...
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Yes we can do that. I imagined you wanted to use the older account with the much earlier registration. Let me see....
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@stephenw10 Everything works great! Thank you! Can I delete my old account or is there something else I need to do?
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@Volui do you want me to move your posts over to this account?
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@Volui ok all your posts have been moved over to this account. We can delete that other 0 account now.
Only issue might have is anyone that used say @ to call out that 0 user will now be invalid.. But don't think that will be much of an issue. You only had like 17 posts total..
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@johnpoz OK, thank you! Then I delete the remaining account that is no longer needed. Thank you very much again! =)
