Locked out of my AW account

[Hurley]

FFS apparently Hotmail have killed the account I used to sign up for lack of use
I’ve had to fill out a shitload of details new email etc and they may resurrect me at some point

[Hobbit]

And you are telling us this why?

[joninbristol]

And you are telling us this why?

I guess it's a good (general) warning that if you registered with anything from your gas bill to AW with an old, no longer used email account, it might go AWOL at some point and bugger up your password recoveries, if you don't log in from time to time.
Crikey though, if Microsoft are so short on disk space they can't just cull some of your older mails instead of shutting down your account, I'm not sure I'd want to trust them with anything they store for me.

[Nightingale]

I guess it's a good (general) warning that if you registered with anything from your gas bill to AW with an old, no longer used email account, it might go AWOL at some point and bugger up your password recoveries, if you don't log in from time to time.
Crikey though, if Microsoft are so short on disk space they can't just cull some of your older mails instead of shutting down your account, I'm not sure I'd want to trust them with anything they store for me.

I’ve got an email dedicated to this. Better make sure it stays active. Thanks for the info.

[Happiness]

And you are telling us this why?

I suppose it could prevent someone having the same issue. Assuming they now make sure not to forget password and have an active recovery email after reading this.

[NelsonH]

This is actually a very useful and timely reminder that all the digital world can just evaporate at someones whim.  Or worse a machines whim.

So thanks for posting this.

[Don-Pedro]

Happend to me.
I lost the recovery account and forgot the password.
I guess it is a lost case