[Gmail-Users] Re: My name is used, but Google says it doesn't exist, Help!

ioris.rosana@googlemail.com wrote:
> I think I partially set up an account sometime ago, but now can't
> access it, and Google thinks it doesn't exist, yet I can't set it up as
> a username, because Google says it exists already! I'm in catch-22
> hell. Can anyone help me please? In desperation I created a new account
> which reverses my firstname lastname. Google doesn't recognise any of
> my other (hotmail and yahoo) email accounts, nor rosanaioris as a
> username, yet when I try to choose rosanaioris, it says it already
> exists. None of my commonly used passwords work. Help!

This is mainly speculation... but I don't believe Google immediately
recycles account usernames. So, if the account previously exists but
is now closed it doesn't necessary allow it to be used for new
accounts. They may keep the username reserved for a period of time.