Comments on: Mom, Google Ate My GMail! http://gigaom.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:01:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sheila http://gigaom.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131072 Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:36:47 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131072 it is now August 13,2010 Yesterday I lost my gmail account.It will not let me sign up again. keeps saying it is not valid. it is.

]]> By: michaella http://gigaom.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131071 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:08:33 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131071 my account is still there but when i go to the gmail screen it comes up with an error for loading (cannot find page) only prob with this is i forgot my facebook pass and in order to get to it i need to log into gmail -.- i have yet to find a way to fix this

]]> By: Bevis http://gigaom.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131070 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:37:57 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131070 May I thank you for adding that startling info. I have learned a lot from it. Running a home office is very challenging. Since I use Chandler “Running-To-Do-Lists” in my business too, I have the advantage to be more organized in fulfilling my daily errands and thus my day does not feel so stressful and packed. In order to stay organized with my emails too, I use Email Sorter Wizard, a MS Outlook add-in. Using Email Sorter Wizard is like having a personal email assistant that takes care of a cluttered inbox and gets everything organized.

]]> By: James Yoon http://gigaom.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131069 Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:37:14 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131069 I literally can’t get on to gmail. It’s not that my emails and stuff are getting erased but I can’t even get on to Gmail. On safari, it just says that an error has occurred because it can’t make a “secure connection” to the website. Anyone know what that really means?

]]> By: faith http://gigaom.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131068 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:13:12 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131068 WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!! MY GMAIL IS NOT LETTING ME IN BUT WAIT MY USER AND PASSWORD ARE CORRECT!!!!!!!!!!! WHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELP ME PLEASE!

i think theres somin wrong with my laptop or somin! or its…EVIL GMAIL!!!!

]]> By: Ernesto Gongora http://gigaom.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131067 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:09:49 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131067 I have also been a GMail user since its Beta days. Never had problems with it until a week and a half ago when suddenly I was not able to login using the password I have used for years. I had to eventually do a password recovery and was asked the private questions tied to my old password to get access. When I got back in, all my emails where gone. I only had 8 emails which had arrived that day. I could not believe that had just happened to me. I never downloaded my emails because I thought they were safer online than in my computer’s hard drive. Now I know better. Something similar happened to me with facebook. I opened an account, invited a bunch of people to be my friends, then I was not able to login to my account and trying to reset my password doesn’t work because I never receive my new password from facebook in my Gmail account. I wonder if my accounts were hacked.

]]> By: Angelo Lewis http://gigaom.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131066 Fri, 08 May 2009 13:06:40 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131066 I have been a gmail user from near the beginning of the service. Yesterday, I logged on to discover that all my email had been deleted, except for new messages. Drafts, filters, inbox, ALLMAIL, everything. I filled out the form on Gmail help about twelve hours ago. Perhaps I’ll hear back, although I am not hopeful. If you use Gmail, get the utility that allows you to back up your mail to your hard drive. Otherwise, you may be out of luck.

]]> By: Why Web 2.0 is dangerous. — Shooting at Bubbles http://gigaom.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131065 Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:11:48 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131065 [...] for the safety of Web 2.0 apps the recent loss of Gmail user accounts mail (here, here and here) is a prime example on how placing too much reliance on Web 2.0 applications is playing a [...]

]]> By: Amanda Valentine http://gigaom.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131064 Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:15:14 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131064 Yeeeah… I found this by using google to see if this is happening to other people. In the past two weeks this has happened to TWO of my gmail accounts! I tried to log in, the password was “invalid” and I had to jump through a few hoops to finally be able to reset my password. Once I reset it ALL of my contacts were gone, as well as all of my saved e-mails! One account was 4 years old and the other was at least 6 years old! That is A LOT of saved e-mails with other website password’s stored and so on. I am worried it may happen to my business account next.

]]> By: Cheryl http://gigaom.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131063 Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:49:26 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131063 WHAT the HECK! I open a gmail account for first time over a week ago. I have it accessible on my Blackberry as well. Suddenly, on February 11th after Google made some “new and improved changes”–as they advertised, my desktop google does NOT recognize my username or password. I suddenly do not exist. However, I still receive new emails on my gmail on the Blackberry. I just can’t access all my emails I sent from my old Hotmail on my desktop. It’s ridiculous. Now I may have to notify all my contacts AGAIN this month—- Psych! I will go back to my previous old hotmail account. I am NOT impressed with Google or Gmail at all. How can this be fixed?

]]> By: Srikumar http://gigaom.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131062 Sat, 14 Feb 2009 02:42:04 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131062 hi

i have also lost all my mails from gmail including few important mails.as this was my main mail ID. is there any way all these mails can be retried.

]]> By: Rupert http://gigaom.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131061 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:16:02 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131061 oh dear oh dear..

same problem. Went from working fine in the afternoon too not recognising either my username or password. Which i know is right.

Very worrying that emails going back to 2004 might very well be lost.

Does anyone have any good news?

]]> By: Kaustav http://gigaom.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131060 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:30:31 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131060 I had two Google IDs deleted in three weeks.
The first was an Id that I had used since 2004, with lots of mail in it. In addition, I had an Orkut profile with hundreds of contacts, my blog on blogger, Google Calendar, and an igoogle page. I logged on in the morning to check the calendar, and then logged off. In the evening, the log in screen showed a password – username mismatch. All efforts went in vain. Finally a test mail sent to my gmail account bounced, saying the username did not exist.
I created another ID and re-created my blog from scratch through backups. I also recreated my Orkut profile. Again, the account was deleted in a few days.
Of course, email sent to google seems to disappear into a black hole – my emails and support requests on their website have not been answered.

Sadly,
KC

]]> By: Vince Cehelnik http://gigaom.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131059 Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:01:14 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131059 My gmail stuff has disappeared from my home page. I can’t find any mail or contacts. What shall I do?

]]> By: WinExtra - Why Web 2.0 is dangerous. http://gigaom.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131058 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:34:59 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131058 [...] for the safety of Web 2.0 apps the recent loss of Gmail user accounts mail (here, here and here) is a prime example on how placing too much reliance on Web 2.0 applications is playing a [...]

]]> By: Debbie http://gigaom.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131057 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:17:26 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/12/28/mom-google-ate-my-gmail/#comment-131057 Have been using Gmail without problem for several months, but yesterday no email showed up (except some spam) and I verified with a family member that she had sent me an email during the day. I have no idea how many other messages did not arrive — and it was just after posting an ad on Craig’s List.

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