Website Failure Sept 2021.
My previous website was erased by trying to fix my email account. Oh my!
What Happened
In September of 2021, my email account in gmail became locked with a request to purchase more space.
As a result, I decided to manage the use of my storage space, so I erased emails instead, trying to get rid of the notice that was locking my account.
When this did not fix the problem, and my account was still locked. I started to erase everything that was not current from my Google Drive.
That did not solve the problem. I thought that maybe the Google "trash can" needed to be emptied, and found a link to do this, but the file names were not meaningful and I deleted them one at a time trying to get rid of the lock on my gmail account. By deleting one file at a time and checking to see if my account was working between deletes, I ended up deleting all my data without fixing the problem at all. The account now is still locked, and has no data.
After trying to fix email, I realized that my Dahlia web site was erased! It was built in "Google Sites" and was linked invisibly to my email account.
My original website using Blogger was not affected, so some of the old data was recovered from there, as a start to re-build my dahlia website.
In the end, I had deleted all my data from email, Google Drive, & Google Photos, Google Sites,
but my account remained locked!
I tried a number of times to contact Google to let them know about the bug in their email system, but without any luck.
So here is a new beginning.
My new email address is: DouglasDahlia779@gmail.com
I will use it only for my dahlia blog
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