Monday, April 11, 2011

How to regain access to blogs after blog interruption?

What a terrible weekend of blog troubles! Late Saturday afternoon my 'Blogger'/gmail account password suddenly did not allow me to sign-in to access my series of blogs on http://monthlynotes.blogspot.com/ through http://monthlynotes22.blogspot.com/. I had just changed topics and was eager to complete a new series on 'Conflicts in Culture' in the US and in US Psychiatry. My blogs are all original with original photographics and are copyrighted. I have had the same gmail account and password for almost a year, since I began to blog. Occasionally, it has been necessary to re-enter gmail username or password. But sign-in had always been successful. I realized the Blogger 'sign in' box for password had been shortened by one space, one space shorter than my password. This blocked my sign-in and my access to my group of blogs for additional posts, edits of drafts, addendums to already published posts, in general for work on my blog series. Like many others, when I have the Internet connection, I like to get projects done. This suddenly became impossible and has been very upsetting. What was worse was that after following directions to contact www.help@gmail.com to 'reset password' to fix this problem, I was informed that I had sent too many inquiries, that this was under investigation. I also sent some emails, explaining the change in the password blank spaces blocking my password entry. I mentioned other issues. Immediately before this happened, I created a 'wikipedia' account, which I subsequently deleted thinking this might be the problem. I tried all the Google gmail remedies to 'reset password'. Some asked for a telephone number to send a text or voice verification code. None worked. The circular reasoning in the instructions was frustrating. If you cannot sign-on, you cannot check your email under that gmail account to check for the instruction email from gmail. Luckily, I have an outside 'alternative' email account to receive these instructions. Beginning about April 4, 2011, I also received messages from the outside email company and from gmail 'security' demanding account confirmations, which my anti-virus software tells me are fraudulent inquiries. So there may be team of email/password hackers out there terrorizing us by blocking, altering, or stealing our email accounts and any other accounts these codes provide access to. The next problem is that another set of instructions says to create a 2nd author or team account to sign-in. Again, if you cannot sign-in to your blog, you cannot access the 'setting' to create a 2nd author or team account. Then the biggest problem arises. It is not possible to create an additional gmail account to create another sign-in route. If you create a second gmail account, gmail automatically deletes the first gmail account, which is the only access account to your Blogger account. If you have written over 40 original blogs with original photographics, you may begin to panic as I did that someone has hacked on to steal your book-in-progress. That no help is immediately forthcoming, leads to the worry that Google/Gmail/Blogger staff don't care to fix this major problem, 'are in on it', or are sadistically laughing at you as you attempt to regain your blogs. Should we include a warning 'This email account is not connected to any bank or money account'? Also, it is no longer easy to log on to Google Gmail forums for help questions. Answers on file include the information above. If you find this and have any other ideas on how to recover one's own blog email me at mkrause54@yahoo.com. (I cannot access mkrause381@gmail.com, the original gmail account, or mkrause382@gmail.com. Access was delayed to the newly created mkrause383@gmail.com.) What if Google can no longer protect bloggers or keep work safe, secure and accessible to the blog owner, the 'content owner'? What is the 'next big thing' after blogging--typing on a typewriter? Typewriters are not so easy to find, after the introduction of the laptop and Internet-dependent software.