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Deleted personal account to create team account but name locked?

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I recently deleted a personal account I had created so that I could recreate it as a team account. Now the the name is locked when i try to create it as a team account citing it as "already in use by another person or team." but I "permanently deleted" the matching personal account so how can I reclaim the name as a team account?

Thanks!

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William Grant (wgrant) said : 		#1

What's the username in question? We can free it up for you.

However, you should not, in general, be creating a "team account". Instead create an actual team at https://launchpad.net/people/+newteam to which you can add people or other teams as members. A team can be used in almost any situation that a person can, and its members can exercise the privileges of the team.

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Dan (dwasyluk) said : 		#2

Thanks for the quick reply @William, very much appreciate the help.

You're correct I misspoke creating an actual team is what I was trying to do. The team name is 'syscoin' if you could free it up I'd very much appreciate it.

In the process of releasing that name I somehow messed up my primary account, every time I login I get the message "An Error Occurred" and a white page. The username on the personal account with the error is 'dwasyluk' not sure if you can remediate the error, I had to create a second personal account because the error prevents use of my primary account.

Thanks again!

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Dan (dwasyluk) said : 		#3

Correction- the username on the personal account with error shows as 'dwasyluk' with email 'dwasyluk@gmail'. The personal account I'm using now seems to have the same username.

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William Grant (wgrant) said : 		#4

Things are a bit messy because the old ~syscoin Launchpad account has the same email address as your new Ubuntu One account. ~syscoin can't be trivially deleted because it has a PPA and an OpenPGP key and such attached.

What might be best is for me to delete the PPA, move the other things from ~syscoin over to ~dwasyluk, and then fix up your new Ubuntu One account to match. Then you can recreate ~syscoin as a team. Does that sound reasonable to you?

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Dan (dwasyluk) said : 		#5

Hi William,

Your suggested approach of moving everything to ~dwasyluk so I could then recreate ~syscoin as a team sounds perfect. If you could let me know once I'm clear to recreate the team I'd very much appreciate that.

I want to thank you for your help in this matter, you've really been a lifesaver as that team account is very important to our project!

Thanks again
Dan

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Dan (dwasyluk) said : 		#6

Any updates on this issue? Would hate to have to push our clients to pulling resources from our personal accounts rather than a proper team account. Thank you for your help!

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#7

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