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How to find your forgotten Gmail accounts

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Illustration by Samar Haddad / The Verge

A little over two months ago, Google announced that it was planning to delete any accounts that hadn’t been used in two years (with a few exceptions, such as accounts that have YouTube videos). Well, just today, I got an email from Google warning me that accounts that have not been accessed for two years will indeed be eligible for deletion starting on December 1st, 2023.

I’ve been wandering around Google’s apps for some time now, and it occurred to me that I could possibly have unused Google accounts that I haven’t used for years — and which, if I didn’t check them, might have content I’d want to save. I knew I had three active Google accounts, and suspected I had at least one other that I hadn’t visited in a while, but I wasn’t quite…

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