±Recent Visitors

Recent Visitors to Com-Central!

±User Info-big


Welcome Anonymous

Nickname
Password

Membership:
Latest: HighestAce
New Today: 0
New Yesterday: 0
Overall: 6648

People Online:
Members: 0
Visitors: 608
Total: 608
Who Is Where:
 Visitors:
01: Community Forums
02: Home
03: Community Forums
04: Photo Gallery
05: Photo Gallery
06: Community Forums
07: Photo Gallery
08: Photo Gallery
09: Photo Gallery
10: Community Forums
11: Community Forums
12: Downloads
13: Your Account
14: Downloads
15: Community Forums
16: Community Forums
17: Photo Gallery
18: Member Screenshots
19: Home
20: Downloads
21: Home
22: Community Forums
23: Community Forums
24: Community Forums
25: Home
26: Community Forums
27: Community Forums
28: Downloads
29: Your Account
30: Photo Gallery
31: Community Forums
32: Community Forums
33: Home
34: Member Screenshots
35: Photo Gallery
36: Member Screenshots
37: Member Screenshots
38: Home
39: Supporters
40: Member Screenshots
41: Tell a Friend
42: Community Forums
43: Downloads
44: Home
45: Community Forums
46: Home
47: Photo Gallery
48: Downloads
49: Home
50: Member Screenshots
51: Member Screenshots
52: Home
53: Member Screenshots
54: Community Forums
55: Community Forums
56: Community Forums
57: Community Forums
58: Photo Gallery
59: Home
60: Community Forums
61: Home
62: Member Screenshots
63: Photo Gallery
64: Downloads
65: Community Forums
66: Home
67: Member Screenshots
68: Photo Gallery
69: Member Screenshots
70: Community Forums
71: Home
72: Member Screenshots
73: Photo Gallery
74: Community Forums
75: Community Forums
76: Community Forums
77: Member Screenshots
78: Member Screenshots
79: Community Forums
80: Community Forums
81: Home
82: Member Screenshots
83: Member Screenshots
84: Community Forums
85: News Archive
86: Member Screenshots
87: Community Forums
88: Community Forums
89: Photo Gallery
90: Home
91: Member Screenshots
92: Member Screenshots
93: Downloads
94: Downloads
95: Community Forums
96: Downloads
97: Home
98: Community Forums
99: Photo Gallery
100: Community Forums
101: Community Forums
102: Community Forums
103: Member Screenshots
104: Community Forums
105: Photo Gallery
106: Community Forums
107: Community Forums
108: Community Forums
109: Member Screenshots
110: Community Forums
111: Community Forums
112: Community Forums
113: Community Forums
114: Community Forums
115: News Archive
116: Home
117: Community Forums
118: Photo Gallery
119: Community Forums
120: Community Forums
121: Community Forums
122: Photo Gallery
123: Downloads
124: Member Screenshots
125: Member Screenshots
126: Community Forums
127: Member Screenshots
128: Member Screenshots
129: Member Screenshots
130: Community Forums
131: Home
132: Member Screenshots
133: Community Forums
134: Community Forums
135: Community Forums
136: Statistics
137: Member Screenshots
138: Photo Gallery
139: Home
140: Photo Gallery
141: Community Forums
142: Photo Gallery
143: Member Screenshots
144: Photo Gallery
145: Community Forums
146: Home
147: Community Forums
148: Home
149: Community Forums
150: Community Forums
151: Community Forums
152: Community Forums
153: Photo Gallery
154: Community Forums
155: Home
156: Community Forums
157: Community Forums
158: Photo Gallery
159: Home
160: Community Forums
161: Community Forums
162: Community Forums
163: Photo Gallery
164: Member Screenshots
165: Photo Gallery
166: Member Screenshots
167: Member Screenshots
168: Community Forums
169: Photo Gallery
170: Home
171: Home
172: News Archive
173: Home
174: Home
175: Member Screenshots
176: Member Screenshots
177: Photo Gallery
178: Community Forums
179: Community Forums
180: Member Screenshots
181: Community Forums
182: Home
183: Community Forums
184: Member Screenshots
185: News
186: Community Forums
187: Downloads
188: Community Forums
189: Downloads
190: Photo Gallery
191: Member Screenshots
192: News Archive
193: Community Forums
194: Member Screenshots
195: Photo Gallery
196: Photo Gallery
197: Photo Gallery
198: News Archive
199: Photo Gallery
200: Home
201: Photo Gallery
202: Member Screenshots
203: Photo Gallery
204: News Archive
205: Member Screenshots
206: News Archive
207: Home
208: Downloads
209: Community Forums
210: Community Forums
211: Community Forums
212: Photo Gallery
213: Member Screenshots
214: Photo Gallery
215: News Archive
216: Member Screenshots
217: Downloads
218: Community Forums
219: Photo Gallery
220: Community Forums
221: Photo Gallery
222: Community Forums
223: Community Forums
224: Community Forums
225: Member Screenshots
226: Community Forums
227: Home
228: Community Forums
229: Home
230: Community Forums
231: Photo Gallery
232: Community Forums
233: Community Forums
234: Member Screenshots
235: Community Forums
236: Photo Gallery
237: News Archive
238: Community Forums
239: Your Account
240: Community Forums
241: Community Forums
242: Home
243: Member Screenshots
244: Community Forums
245: Member Screenshots
246: Community Forums
247: Community Forums
248: Community Forums
249: News Archive
250: Home
251: Downloads
252: Photo Gallery
253: Community Forums
254: Community Forums
255: Photo Gallery
256: Community Forums
257: Community Forums
258: News Archive
259: Member Screenshots
260: Community Forums
261: Member Screenshots
262: Community Forums
263: Member Screenshots
264: Community Forums
265: Community Forums
266: Home
267: Community Forums
268: Community Forums
269: Photo Gallery
270: Community Forums
271: Member Screenshots
272: Community Forums
273: Member Screenshots
274: Home
275: Member Screenshots
276: Member Screenshots
277: News Archive
278: Community Forums
279: Photo Gallery
280: Community Forums
281: Community Forums
282: Community Forums
283: Community Forums
284: Community Forums
285: Member Screenshots
286: Community Forums
287: Home
288: News Archive
289: Community Forums
290: Member Screenshots
291: Community Forums
292: Community Forums
293: Community Forums
294: News
295: Photo Gallery
296: Community Forums
297: Community Forums
298: Member Screenshots
299: Community Forums
300: Photo Gallery
301: Community Forums
302: Photo Gallery
303: Member Screenshots
304: Home
305: Community Forums
306: Photo Gallery
307: News Archive
308: Community Forums
309: Member Screenshots
310: Home
311: Community Forums
312: Community Forums
313: Community Forums
314: Community Forums
315: Home
316: Community Forums
317: Home
318: Community Forums
319: Home
320: Home
321: Downloads
322: News Archive
323: Downloads
324: Member Screenshots
325: Community Forums
326: Community Forums
327: Community Forums
328: Community Forums
329: Home
330: Community Forums
331: Community Forums
332: Home
333: Community Forums
334: News Archive
335: Home
336: Community Forums
337: Community Forums
338: Member Screenshots
339: Photo Gallery
340: Home
341: Photo Gallery
342: Community Forums
343: Community Forums
344: News Archive
345: Community Forums
346: Community Forums
347: Community Forums
348: Home
349: Member Screenshots
350: Community Forums
351: Member Screenshots
352: Community Forums
353: Member Screenshots
354: Downloads
355: Community Forums
356: Home
357: Home
358: Photo Gallery
359: Downloads
360: Community Forums
361: Statistics
362: Community Forums
363: Member Screenshots
364: Member Screenshots
365: Home
366: Community Forums
367: News Archive
368: Community Forums
369: Member Screenshots
370: Home
371: Downloads
372: Member Screenshots
373: Home
374: Community Forums
375: Member Screenshots
376: Home
377: Member Screenshots
378: Community Forums
379: Member Screenshots
380: Community Forums
381: LinkToUs
382: Photo Gallery
383: Community Forums
384: Downloads
385: Community Forums
386: Community Forums
387: Photo Gallery
388: Community Forums
389: Downloads
390: Home
391: Community Forums
392: Photo Gallery
393: Home
394: News Archive
395: Downloads
396: Community Forums
397: News Archive
398: Photo Gallery
399: Community Forums
400: News Archive
401: Community Forums
402: Photo Gallery
403: Community Forums
404: Community Forums
405: Community Forums
406: Downloads
407: Home
408: Member Screenshots
409: Community Forums
410: Community Forums
411: Community Forums
412: Photo Gallery
413: Community Forums
414: Member Screenshots
415: Member Screenshots
416: Community Forums
417: Member Screenshots
418: Home
419: Photo Gallery
420: Community Forums
421: Home
422: Member Screenshots
423: News Archive
424: Community Forums
425: Photo Gallery
426: Home
427: News Archive
428: News Archive
429: Home
430: Community Forums
431: Home
432: Member Screenshots
433: Community Forums
434: Member Screenshots
435: Community Forums
436: Member Screenshots
437: Community Forums
438: Community Forums
439: Community Forums
440: Home
441: Community Forums
442: Community Forums
443: Photo Gallery
444: Community Forums
445: Community Forums
446: Community Forums
447: Community Forums
448: Photo Gallery
449: Community Forums
450: Community Forums
451: Downloads
452: Community Forums
453: Home
454: Community Forums
455: Member Screenshots
456: Home
457: Home
458: Community Forums
459: Downloads
460: Member Screenshots
461: Home
462: Member Screenshots
463: Community Forums
464: Member Screenshots
465: Community Forums
466: Community Forums
467: Home
468: Member Screenshots
469: News Archive
470: Member Screenshots
471: Member Screenshots
472: Home
473: Community Forums
474: Community Forums
475: Community Forums
476: Community Forums
477: Member Screenshots
478: Community Forums
479: Home
480: Community Forums
481: Member Screenshots
482: Home
483: Community Forums
484: Member Screenshots
485: Community Forums
486: Home
487: Community Forums
488: Community Forums
489: Community Forums
490: Photo Gallery
491: Home
492: Statistics
493: Member Screenshots
494: Community Forums
495: News Archive
496: Community Forums
497: Member Screenshots
498: Community Forums
499: Home
500: Your Account
501: Member Screenshots
502: Home
503: Community Forums
504: Member Screenshots
505: Downloads
506: Community Forums
507: Member Screenshots
508: Home
509: Community Forums
510: Community Forums
511: Downloads
512: Member Screenshots
513: Member Screenshots
514: Photo Gallery
515: Community Forums
516: Photo Gallery
517: Photo Gallery
518: Photo Gallery
519: Community Forums
520: Community Forums
521: Member Screenshots
522: Community Forums
523: Downloads
524: Downloads
525: Home
526: Community Forums
527: Member Screenshots
528: Community Forums
529: Photo Gallery
530: Community Forums
531: Photo Gallery
532: Community Forums
533: Home
534: Community Forums
535: Member Screenshots
536: Community Forums
537: Member Screenshots
538: Community Forums
539: Community Forums
540: Community Forums
541: Community Forums
542: Community Forums
543: Home
544: Member Screenshots
545: Community Forums
546: Community Forums
547: Downloads
548: Home
549: Community Forums
550: Photo Gallery
551: Photo Gallery
552: Member Screenshots
553: Photo Gallery
554: Downloads
555: Photo Gallery
556: Downloads
557: Home
558: News Archive
559: Community Forums
560: Member Screenshots
561: Photo Gallery
562: Community Forums
563: Community Forums
564: Community Forums
565: Community Forums
566: Member Screenshots
567: Community Forums
568: Statistics
569: Community Forums
570: News Archive
571: Photo Gallery
572: Member Screenshots
573: News Archive
574: Community Forums
575: Photo Gallery
576: Home
577: Community Forums
578: Community Forums
579: Member Screenshots
580: News Archive
581: News
582: Photo Gallery
583: Member Screenshots
584: Community Forums
585: Community Forums
586: Your Account
587: Home
588: Community Forums
589: Photo Gallery
590: Member Screenshots
591: Community Forums
592: Member Screenshots
593: Member Screenshots
594: Community Forums
595: Community Forums
596: Community Forums
597: Community Forums
598: Search
599: Community Forums
600: Community Forums
601: Community Forums
602: Community Forums
603: Your Account
604: Community Forums
605: Member Screenshots
606: Home
607: Community Forums
608: Member Screenshots

Staff Online:

No staff members are online!
Google deleting inactive accounts
A general meeting place for all pilots!
Post new topic    Reply to topic    Printer Friendly Page     Forum Index ›  Officer's Club

View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
wheelsup_cavu
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Mar 29, 2010
Posts: 974
Location: Corona, California
PostPosted: Sat Aug 19, 2023 11:14 pm
Post subject: Google deleting inactive accounts

I just got another email regarding them deleting inactive accounts. There was no distinction regarding accounts with uploaded content this time either. First ones are going to the digital grave yard in December.



posted by me elsewhere in May Sorry for the delay. Confused

Just giving everyone a heads up that Google is planning on going on a purge of inactive accounts at the end of the year...

- Matt Novak @ Forbes
Google To Delete Old Gmail And YouTube Accounts Not Used In Two Years
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/05/16/google-to-delete-old-gmail-and-youtube-accounts-not-used-in-two-years/?sh=17b0ab467103

Do you have an old Gmail account that you haven’t used in more than two years? You might want to consider logging in and sending a quick email or backing up the emails locally. Google announced on Tuesday it was changing its “inactive” accounts policy, and may delete Gmail, YouTube and Google Photos accounts that haven’t been used in at least two years, beginning at the end of 2023.

“Starting later this year, if a Google Account has not been used or signed into for at least 2 years, we may delete the account and its contents—including content within Google Workspace (Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, Calendar), YouTube and Google Photos,” Ruth Kricheli, VP of Product Management at Google, said in an announcement published online Tuesday.

Kricheli went on to explain that this new policy only applies to personal accounts and won’t be implemented for business accounts. The Google account deletions will start in December 2023, which gives users just over six months to log in to their accounts if they’d like to keep them.

Why is Google doing this? It’s all part of a push for stricter security. Dormant accounts are less likely to have multi-factor authentication set up, a tool that was rolled out widely about a decade ago and provides significant protection against hackers.

“Our internal analysis shows abandoned accounts are at least 10x less likely than active accounts to have 2-step-verification set up. Meaning, these accounts are often vulnerable, and once an account is compromised, it can be used for anything from identity theft to a vector for unwanted or even malicious content, like spam,” Kricheli explained on Tuesday.

Google notes it will start by deleting accounts that were created but never actually used and will slowly turn to other accounts. Google will also send multiple warnings that an account will be deleted, something that likely won’t be seen by anyone who’s completely abandoned the account. But the tech giant will also send warning to the account’s recovery email, the address provided during sign-up as a back-up.

If you care about keeping your emails and Google documents for years to come, this is probably a great time to just download everything locally so you can keep your own back-up of data. The cloud is great, but having a local copy of old emails can be invaluable in the event something goes wrong. Because Google is fallible, and there are horror stories out there of people losing everything they had stored in the cloud.

“You can download and export your data to other platforms through our Takeout feature, which has been available for over a decade,” Kricheli wrote.

Google will reportedly not allow others to claim account names that have been abandoned and deleted, according to the blog 9to5Mac and confirmation I received from Google. But that’s a good thing. If the account for John.Doe @ gmail.com gets deleted, it won’t be available for someone else to scoop up. That account simply doesn’t exist anymore. That’s important because some other services will reassign account names, like Twitter CEO Elon Musk has promised to do during that company’s ongoing purge of old accounts.





Wheels

_________________
Cheers Smile
Wheelsup_cavu

Planes of Fame Air Museum | March Field Air Museum | Palm Springs Air Museum
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
wheelsup_cavu
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Mar 29, 2010
Posts: 974
Location: Corona, California
PostPosted: Fri Mar 29, 2024 12:45 pm
Post subject: Re: Google deleting inactive accounts

So far none of the ones I expected to be deleted have been taken down. They still show up in my subscriptions feed.


Wheels

_________________
Cheers Smile
Wheelsup_cavu

Planes of Fame Air Museum | March Field Air Museum | Palm Springs Air Museum
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
Shades
Forum Tree-Rat

Offline Offline
Joined: Mar 07, 2005
Posts: 6475
Location: 3rd Branch up, 'Ye Olde Oak', Green Wood.
PostPosted: Sat Apr 06, 2024 10:32 pm
Post subject: Re: Google deleting inactive accounts

Isn't that fair enough?
I mean if they haven't been used in two years, why not?

_________________
Skwerl's place.

Com-Central's cutest, fluffiest, twitchiest, tail.
CPU > Intel i9-9900k (o/c 4.9GHz); COOLING > BeQuiet! Dark Rock Pro 4;
MOBO > ASUS PRIME Z390-A; RAM > 2x32GB Corsair LPX 2666MHz;
GPU > Gigabyte GEFORCE GTX650Ti PCI-e 3.0 2Gb GDDR5;
AUDIO > Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music (plus - Universal Audio UAD2 Quad Custom accelerator);
HDD > 3x1TB+ M.2. SSDs; LCD > DELL - S2419HGF (1920x1080);
PSU > 650W be quiet Straight Power 11 - 80+ Gold;
CASE > BeQuiet! SILENT BASE 601; OS > Windows 11 Home Advanced (64-bit).
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website ICQ Number
wheelsup_cavu
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Mar 29, 2010
Posts: 974
Location: Corona, California
PostPosted: Sun Apr 07, 2024 7:34 pm
Post subject: Re: Google deleting inactive accounts

- Shades
Isn't that fair enough?
I mean if they haven't been used in two years, why not?


I would be bothered less if there was a support number you could call to regain access to a lost account. I do not know if you have ever been caught in their password reset/account recovery loop/hell but I would bank that there are several accounts that have not been accessed due to this problem. It almost cost me my YouTube account about 4 or 5 years ago.

I had not logged into the site in about 6 to 8 months and when I tried to login to my account Google locked me out even though I was using the correct password. How do I know that I was using the correct password? Lol, they sent me an email saying that it was the correct password and login name but they weren't going to give me access to the accounts because they didn't believe it was me. Rolling Eyes


Wheels

_________________
Cheers Smile
Wheelsup_cavu

Planes of Fame Air Museum | March Field Air Museum | Palm Springs Air Museum
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
Shades
Forum Tree-Rat

Offline Offline
Joined: Mar 07, 2005
Posts: 6475
Location: 3rd Branch up, 'Ye Olde Oak', Green Wood.
PostPosted: Wed Apr 17, 2024 9:08 am
Post subject: Re: Google deleting inactive accounts

Heck no.
When something like that happens I just write it off to experience.
The account ceases to exist for me because I refuse to be held to ransom by automation.
If there's a person, fair enough, I'll have a go.
But I vote with my feet, in all circumstances.
When I feel inconvenienced by numptiness, I walk away and never look back.


My local bank closed during #1 lockdown.
I moved the account to a slightly further away bank.
It's just written to me saying that's closing.
So I went to move it slightly further away again, but still local to me.
Got there to find a notice on the window saying that branch is closing too.
Walked next door and opened a new account with their main competitor.
Screw 'em!
Cool .

_________________
Skwerl's place.

Com-Central's cutest, fluffiest, twitchiest, tail.
CPU > Intel i9-9900k (o/c 4.9GHz); COOLING > BeQuiet! Dark Rock Pro 4;
MOBO > ASUS PRIME Z390-A; RAM > 2x32GB Corsair LPX 2666MHz;
GPU > Gigabyte GEFORCE GTX650Ti PCI-e 3.0 2Gb GDDR5;
AUDIO > Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music (plus - Universal Audio UAD2 Quad Custom accelerator);
HDD > 3x1TB+ M.2. SSDs; LCD > DELL - S2419HGF (1920x1080);
PSU > 650W be quiet Straight Power 11 - 80+ Gold;
CASE > BeQuiet! SILENT BASE 601; OS > Windows 11 Home Advanced (64-bit).
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website ICQ Number
wheelsup_cavu
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Mar 29, 2010
Posts: 974
Location: Corona, California
PostPosted: Sun May 26, 2024 12:45 pm
Post subject: Re: Google deleting inactive accounts

Lol for the most part I do the same thing when it comes to something of this nature but I actually wanted to keep the YouTube account due to some of the content I have posted and how long I have owned the account using my wheelsupcavu username which made it just a wee bit more difficult for me to just walk away and never look back.



Wheels

_________________
Cheers Smile
Wheelsup_cavu

Planes of Fame Air Museum | March Field Air Museum | Palm Springs Air Museum
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic    Reply to topic    Printer Friendly Page    Forum Index ›  Officer's Club
Page 1 of 1
All times are GMT - 6 Hours



Jump to:  


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You cannot download files in this forum