I mean it, don’t lose it or forget it or clear your cacsh – especially if you’re like me – paranoid that someone is going to find out something about who I am and where I live and scare the pants off of me. So, enter a fake birthday or zip code and then try and retrieve your password. Answer the secret question correctly. Explain to them what you did, reminding them that they were the ones that made you switch it all over into Yahoo. Tell them there is no credit card on file for you and that you have a FREE Flickr account and expect them to send you more than one email a day on the above problem.
I’ve been locked out of Flickr for almost a week now. I’m none to happy about it, and really am expecting that when I get my daily update today in the next hour sometime, that they will tell me that due to their privacy policy they can’t reset my password – even if it means sending it to the email they have on file for me – which is not a Yahoo email.
I have tried every password I have ever used in all of creation. At one point I tried so many times that I had to wait 12 hours before I could try or send an email to them about the situation. What a pain. I’m fully expecting them to tell me that they can reset my password and I’ll have to start a new Flickr account. What a pain.
I am now keeping a little notebook in the sidedrawer of the computer desk with all the passwords in it. JIC. Not that most things are that important. Since I’ve reset my cache, everyone else has complied with my insane requests for a reset – everyone but Yahoo….Dorks.
I have all my passwords in a notebook that is locked away but easy to access for me. Except like, bank ones and those are also written but hidden more carefully. Anyway, that works for me.