Team_Colson Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 I need to change my username, I went to the Groundspeak FAQ and it said how to do it but it didn't lead me in the right direction. Can anyone please help? Thank you. Quote Link to comment
+echo4lima Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 You can'e anymore. Since you have a mere 9 finds, it would be easier to register as a new user with your new name and relog your finds. That is the advice I have seen given to such requests in the last few months since you can no longer change your user name. Quote Link to comment
Team_Colson Posted August 3, 2006 Author Share Posted August 3, 2006 Thank you. I will follow your advice. Quote Link to comment
+The Driscoll's Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 Thank you. I will follow your advice. Geocache.com software doesn't allow changing of user name, I tried it after contacting Groundspeak. I had to enter a new account and manually transfer and re-enter all caches I had found according to them. Fortunately for me I only started geocaching last month and had to re-enter only nine. I am a premium member and tech support did a transfer of my account to reflect such under my new username. My old user name was Jerryd which is still in the system. I deleted all logs under that user name. I entered another trip ticket today to try and keep my owner ID # the same because I was issued another owner ID# under my new user name. This shows me being a new registered customer since July 2006. I've been a registered user of this forum since December 2003 under Jerryd and want my new user name to reflect the same. I'm just waiting on another reply. So far, Groundspeak support has been pretty responsive getting back with me to solve any issue. Hope this helps! Quote Link to comment
+hitman757 Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 How does one change their username? I have a friend that wants to change his username, but we can't figure out how to do it.. Quote Link to comment
Hillbilly-Rockstar Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 There's a topic about this going on abut 5 threads down right now. Simply: You can't anymore. -Eric Quote Link to comment
+Thrak Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 How does one change their username? I have a friend that wants to change his username, but we can't figure out how to do it.. If you only have a few finds then simply make a new account and back log all of your finds to the new account. You can state in the log that you are doing so and that way the cache owners will know that you aren't simply making bogus logs. Quote Link to comment
+welch Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 There no easy automatic way to change your user name. Consider if you really want to change your name... if yes then: You go the home page for gc.com and create another account, then you use your new account to relog all your old logs. Also use your new account to log any future caches you do. If you've placed any caches with the old account, use the adopt page (http://www.geocaching.com/adopt/) to move the cache's ownership from one account to the other. Finally, stop using your old account. Quote Link to comment
+Markwell Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 (edited) Sorry if this looks strange - I've merged the two topics together. The second one was started by hitman757 at 12:03 PM CDT. Edited August 3, 2006 by Markwell Quote Link to comment
+Markwell Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 Oh, and it's the first hot topic in my FAQ Quote Link to comment
brettthomas Posted August 13, 2006 Share Posted August 13, 2006 Thanks for the info, now to decide on a name that I'll stick with forever! Quote Link to comment
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