I used to have my own Christian name at the Tube, which is the same as my name here: BarnOwl.
But one day, I jumped in with a comment on some video, and the software there signed it as Koechel545. I have been a Mozart Opus at You Tube ever since.
I made a serious effort to correct the matter, but I couldn’t find anything in YT’s Help that even vaguely addressed the problem, and they don’t list an email or phone number.
How might I resolve this fiasco?
When I sign in, the autoreg thing has me listed as BarnOwl. Nevertheless I’m not allowed to use this name - and password.
I was in effect locked out.
So, I tried to sign in as K545. told them I lost the password and they sent me the procedure to fix that. I used my old password and now I’m Koechel545 officially, and actual owner is getting screwed.
Quite possible - I’m asking him those questions though so we can see if that’s the answer or what. Not trying to be a jerk to the OP, sorry if it came off that way. Sometimes you have to re-trace steps to get answers, even if the answer is “it’s YouTube’s fault”
It’s a damned mystery. I was registered as BarnOwl and one day (many months ago, went to the site, logged in, saw a video and commented on it. But my comment was credited to Koechel545. I remember being embarrassed, wondering how the real K454 wpuld feel if he saw my post.
Today, I went back for the first time in a long, long while, tried again to log in as BarnOwl, but it wouldn’t let me. Somehow, Koechel545 came up. I punched that in, clicked on “forgot my password” and they emailed me with the way to plug one in. I then inputted my old password (that I used for BarnOwl) and they allowed it!!!
Hmm sounds like you may have changed Koechel’s password to be your BarnOwl password.
Their process goes:
Click on “Forgot Password”
Type in your Username and the CAPTCHA word, click “Reset my password!”
Receive an email from YouTube with a link to visit to reset your password.
Type in a new password (twice, for verification)
Now your password is whatever you just set it to.
Try this:
Click “Log Out” at the top right of YouTube
After you’ve logged out, click “Log In” at the top right of YouTube
Click “Forgot Password” on the login screen
Type “Barn Owl” as the username, and the CAPTCHA code text on the Forgot Password page.
Check your email for an email from YouTube. Click on the link they sent.
On the page for resetting your password, type in your desired BarnOwl password (twice, for verification)
Once that’s done, click “Log In” at the top of the page.
No matter what is in the “YouTube Username” box, type BarnOwl instead.
In the YouTube Password box, type the password you just “set” in the step above.
How’s that work for you?
Also, if you are using Firefox, I can tell you how to remove your cookies to further help “cleanse” the problem…
Well, since it seems like you’re using Firefox, I’ll post some things while you “wait”…
Actually, do this before you do the password resetting as posted above.
To clear out your YouTube cookies from Firefox:
Go to TOOLS - OPTIONS - PRIVACY (tab) - SHOW COOKIES (button)
Search at the top of the cookies window for YouTube
For every cookie that comes up in the search, click on it and then click the “REMOVE COOKIE” button
