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How do I recover an old user id when I've lost access to the email address it was registered under?

Asked by Carey Underwood

In 2005 I registered cwillu under sasktel.net, and then I moved to a different province and lost access to that account. I've been using cwillu.com as my user id since 2006, but the .com in there always bugs me.

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j.c.sackett (jcsackett) said : 		#1

As I understand it, you would like to rename your account to cwillu instead of cwillu.com.

Renaming this account isn't possible because your account has PPAs.

I have changed the name of the old account to ~cwillu-old, so you can now change your name to cwillu, but you will need to delete your PPAs. You can recreate them after a change, but the PPAs will also have their name changed.

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Curtis Hovey (sinzui) said : 		#2

Once your PPAs are deleted, you can use the Change details link to change your Launchpad ID (name)

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