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When you attempt to login with another account, it says the following:
You can use multiple sign-in with these Google products:
Calendar
Code
Gmail
Reader
Sites
Voice
[...]
Google products not listed above will default to the first account that you signed in to using your current web browser session.
I guess this ...
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Multiple sign in is a feature that allows you to view content of your other accounts while logged in to one. You cannot use some of the Google tools from two accounts at once, and they default to using the first account you signed in with.
Whichever account you sign in to first is the default account - the account Google will "default" too if there are any ...
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Google are beginning to transition Google Apps accounts to full accounts. My domain just went through this transition and now I have access to most Google services using my Google Apps account. Previously I used to have an alex@mydomain.com Google Apps account and a google@mydomain.com Google account - it got rather annoying after a while!
I outlined in ...
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How do I change which of the accounts is the default one?
To change the default Google account when you are using the multiple sign-in, you need to Sign out of all accounts. Then log in to the Google account that you want to be the default first.
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There are two ways Google 'logs' your searches. Google keeps server logs and there's a feature to log your searches in Web History.
Server Logs
Google stores search information like your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser ...
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One solution is to activate "multiple sign-in" on your accounts. Afterwards you can use two tabs like before.
Another solution is to use different browser instances that do not share cookies. This can be done by starting the same browser multiple times, use different browsers (e.g. Chrome for one account, Firefox for another) or use something like Prism to ...
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According to Google's support docs, it's not possible to merge accounts.
They do offer a comprehensive list of how to move and share data between Google accounts. For the specific products you mention:
Google Reader can export feeds from one account and import to another
Calendars can be shared; if you have meeting invites being forwarded via email you ...
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It remembers your code for 30 days, but if your phone gets stolen, you just remove the "mobile application" (this means Google Authenticator) associated with your phone from the two-step settings page. This will immediately invalidate your code, and your phone browser will no longer log in*.
This is what the setting looks like in my account:
This ...
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I don't think that you can do that. I would suggest loggin with your other GMail account that you want to make it primary and then add the old one as an additional email address to connect them.
You could also forward all your email from one to another or simply retrieve them via POP, if it is only for your emails.
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If you have created the YouTube account after May 2009, which I am guessing you have, then there is no way that you can unlink the YouTube account from your Google account.
AFAIK not even raising a support ticket with YouTube will enable you to unlink your accounts.
Taken from this YouTube Help Article
Only certain types of YouTube Accounts
can ...
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According to Google Support you can use the recovery link on this page: Recovering sign-in information
From here, you should try with all accounts you are associated with to see what accounts are linked. (Assuming you remember all email accounts used apart from the one you forgot). It is sort of hit and miss but it has worked for me on two separate ...
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I'd add the phone first, before an alternate email. Phones are harder to hack than email accounts, after all. If you lose your phone (by theft or otherwise) just log in ASAP and delete the number. (I just tested; you can delete it just by saving with an empty text input.) You can also temporarily set the number to a trusted alternative.
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I have two accounts logged in as well. If I go to google.com, click 'Log out', it logs me out from all accounts. I have to login back with some account and the second is not visible in the menu that time.
So I assume logging out logs you out from all accounts and required you to login with each of them separately again. (Because of this I don't understand ...
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You can change your display name by doing the following:
Log in to your desired account on Youtube.
Click on the down arrow on the top right hand corner next to your profile picture (if you have one).
Select "Youtube settings". Click on "Advanced" under "Account Information".
Click "Disconnect with Google+" account. Note that with this, you are creating a ...
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The string itself doesn't contain personal information but it points to where information can be obtained.
Fear not, Google will tell you what information will be passed (depends on what the target application requires) and ask you for your approval beforehand, each time you use your OAuth/OpenID on a new site, so if someone just have the link, won't learn ...
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Yes, I believe you can change the set number at this page:
https://www.google.com/accounts/UpdateAccountRecoveryOptions?hl=en&service=mail
And yes, I think add the phone number if you don't have an email address that you can use for a recovery email. Otherwise, just use an email address and set it as the recovery email, unless the account is ...
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There isn't a way currently, and its infuriating. I had to create a completely seperate account to use the Android Marketplace, since Checkout will only accept a @gmail.com address and its painful to see that address on every Google service I use. Not to mention that it breaks some services (eg Wave) that have their own accounts data and only use the Google ...
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It really depends on what kind of services you want enabled on the respective domains and what you need for each of them.
If you have 10 domains under your control, but 7 of them were registered to catch those spelling mistakes in accessing your main domain, then it would be good to add these 7 domains as an alias to your main domain in Google Apps.
As for ...
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I just went through this transition. Some stuff is really easy to do - others are hard. Google provides info on how to move things across at their Help Centre, with a list of what can be migrated and how:
Data Transfer
You can transfer information from one
account to another for the following
products. For any other product,
transferring ...
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Fill out the form here:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/google.com/viewform?formkey=dGRvcXVVNU5HbXhSSldRNU5LWVR6Vmc6MQ&ndplr=1
You should get a response in a couple of days.
You can also try emailing analytics-support@google.com but that has not delivered good results for me in the past.. Maybe you will be lucky?
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Google Apps for your domain is basically the same, but for a custom domain. You buy your domain, point the MX records for your domain to the google servers and you can send and receive email through gmail etc (as an example)
It used to be just gmail, docs, calendar, gtalk and a couple of other apps that you could access through your google apps account, but ...
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You seem to be thinking that a "Google account" and a "Gmail address" are the same thing. This is not true; you can sign up with any email address. However, you cannot get away from the account requirement – for obvious security reasons.
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For most products, go to the product's Known Issues help page. For example, Known Issues for Google Accounts (which includes 2-step verification) is at http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/static.py?page=known_issues.cs.
There you can either vote for a known issue by expanding the issue and clicking "Report", or submit a new issue by clicking on the ...
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This page only appears if you are logged into another google site (such as google plus) simply log out of this site or use an incognito/private browsing tab to get the regular login page, for there you can go to "can't access my account" and then "forgotten my username" to get it sent to your recovery address.
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GMail Mail Fetcher
Connect your ISP's account to your GMail account using POP3 so your GMail account will serve as email client that will read emails from another POP3 (optionally also SMTP) account. YOu will use the same connection settings as your ISP is providing you with to connect an email client (i.e. Outlook) to fetch email.
I'm using a similar ...
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I found something interesting on this support article http://support.google.com/plus/answer/1228271?hl=en
On the page, it says
Name Changes are limited to 3 changes every 2 years.
It clearly means that you can change the name of a profile maximum of 3 times every 2 years. If you have already changed the name of the profile 3 times, you won't be able to ...
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Pertaining to your question, I shall answer according to the sequence of points given above:
Correct. It is not possible to transfer ownership of the document. You can share the document using the first account and get the second account to create a copy of it on Google Drive and delete the original file.
Correct. There is a feature in the Google Apps ...
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I use Chrome and iPhone 4 and haven't had this problem. Well, maybe once I think. But nothing annoying. If your settings in your browser is correct. And you have selected the remember me setting for your google account. The only thing I've found in researching the issue is to go to this link
"http://www.gmail.com/gmail&service=mail&[email ...
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It seems like this was caused by the ShareMeNot add-on. Since disabling it, the problem has no longer occured.
I'll give it a few more days to see if that was really the cause (after all, it did work before, and once after the FF6 upgrade, with ShareMeNot enabled), then file a bug report.
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Have you tried following the account deletion procedure?
To delete your Google Account, follow these steps:
1.Sign in on the Google Accounts homepage. (If you forgot your password, you can reset it).
2.Click Edit next to the "My products" list. If you don't see the Edit link, your account was likely created through an organization or
company. ...
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