Tuesday 17 March 2009

googlemail

I have been having a battle with googlemail.

I have two googlemail accounts (I won't go into the whys now).

There is the one that I set up several years ago when I opened my first blog on blogger. I very rarely look at it or use it in any way other than it allows me to use blogger. For most of the last couple of years I even forgot that I have such an account. Then for reasons of privacy I set up a new googlemail account to use for email without involving my usual email accounts that show my name.

Having opened this new account I either forgot the password or some other such device as I couldn't access the account for a few months. About a month ago when I was playing around with things on my laptop I managed to access my new google a/c. I answered the few emails that were gathering dust there. Got a few replies and have since kept this account live.

However this is having an adverse effect on my blogging. I read one of my favourite blogs, write a comment try to publish the comment only to discover that even though my computer has been turned off I am still logged into the wrong account. I lose the comment I was leaving,while I try in vain to switch accounts. The option to switch never ever works. This even happens on my own blog. So if you have been wondering why I have not been visiting you, I have, I have even tried to leave comments but to no avail. All I can do is go into the googlemail sign out and try again.

Having spent a couple of years not having to sign out of googlemail every time I turn off my computer, I am finding it hard to remember to do this now.

6 comments:

Dark Side said...

That's a strange one, I have more then one Google account and I can switch between them, it might be worth an email to techinical help...good luck..xx

Fire Byrd said...

ah wondered where you'd got to ....
hope all is well outside of technical hitches.
xx

DJ Kirkby said...

Oooh I have this very same problem, grrrrrr.

Annie Wan said...

hmm i thought i'd left a comment earlier too ... lir - solver of mysteries

Anonymous said...

Uhmm.. interesting. Have you tried clearing your cache?

Troy said...

Sometimes I find my computer is in the wrong account (eg. Mrs Troy) after I've written a comment. I quickly highlight my comment then do the "Ctrl C". Then when I've got myself into the right account I can then quickly "Ctrl V" and my old comment reappears.