So much for Herzog's Principle

[dr_whom]

So... apparently I've got two separate Google accounts now, with no way to merge them. That's annoying.

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[khyros.livejournal.com]

Can you elaborate a bit? I can get you a lot of information to "effectively" merge google accounts in Gmail, and I know that you can merge 2 google plus profiles and I think this accomplishes some of what you might be hoping to do pretty quickly.

[dr_whom]

So, a student shared with me a link to her homework as a Google doc. I went to the link and got the "you don't have permission to access this item" error message. So I'm like, that's odd, since she shared it with me. Let's see what happens if I'm logged out of my Google account and go to the link.

So I log out and click on the link, and it takes me to the "Thanks for creating a new Google account!" page, asking me if I want to accept the terms of service and whatnot. Aha!, I think. The email address the student shared the doc with was my Swarthmore address, which isn't associated to my Google account. So I'll just click Cancel here, and go add my Swarthmore address to my regular Google account.

I go to do that, of course, and I get the "this address can't be added because it's already associated with a different Google account" message. I try to delete the account that's associated with the Swarthmore address, to free it up and allow me to just add the address to my regular account; but I can't, because it was created through Swarthmore's Google Apps for Education account.

[khyros.livejournal.com]

So you don't _use_ your Swarthmore google apps account for anything? it just got created when you tried to access the doc?

[dr_whom]

That's right. I guess all it gets used for is if people share Google docs with my Swarthmore email address?

[khyros.livejournal.com]

Huh. So because it's the primary for a google apps account you can't set it up as an alternate for another gmail account... Frustrating. I guess you already forward things from your Swat email to one you actually use?

I guess do multiple sign-in if people share google docs with that address occasionally. A bit annoying but pretty manageable in the latest interface. There's a grovo vid for that in the gmail course,