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I manage to recover an old main email and there was a Google acc tied to it that I haven logged in over ten years, but despite I having access to the email, I can’t access the Google acc because:

"You’re trying to sign in on a device Google doesn’t recognize, and we don’t have enough information to verify that it’s you. For your protection, you can’t sign in here right now.

Try again from a device or location where you’ve signed in before."

Then don’t give any recovery option :S

edit: Best I could get from their bot is "If you still see the message about an unrecognized device, you can try the recovery process again in a week from the device you are currently using, as sometimes waiting can help Google recognize the new sign-in pattern."
They won't just a send a code to the email the acc is tied to, or even to the recovery email the acc is tied to... anyway, gonna try the "sometimes" in a week.

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[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

lol that's perfect, I managed to remember the password and then:
"Google will send a verification code to (••) •••••-••88."
A number I don't have anymore haha

So I have the email, I have the password, I have the recovery email, but that's not enough to access the acc lol (trying other options lead to the same "we don’t have enough information to verify" message)

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Their Help is very helpful, after suggesting me traveling back in space and time to use a device I had already used to access that acc, they just suggest "If you still can’t recover your Google Account, you can create a new one. "

[–] Einskjaldi@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They delete accounts if they're not used for a long time eventually

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago

I was curious to see what kind of third party stuff that acc was linked to since it was my first acc and I used it for a long time, but I'd fine with that too.