How do I change our account name.

[+Sagefox 22]

I want to change our account name from Team Sagefox back to the original Sagefox.  We own both names so first I tried to change the Sagefox name to Temporary Sagefox and the Sagefox Temporary.  That way I could then move to Team Sagefox and change it to Sagefox.  But...

 

In trying to change the S name to either of the temporary variations the response is that the name is unavailable.   But for what reason?  Neither of these names are an account.

 

What can I do next?

[+kunarion 2714]

1 hour ago, Team Sagefox said:

I want to change our account name from Team Sagefox back to the original Sagefox.  We own both names so first I tried to change the Sagefox name to Temporary Sagefox and the Sagefox Temporary.  That way I could then move to Team Sagefox and change it to Sagefox.  But...

 

In trying to change the S name to either of the temporary variations the response is that the name is unavailable.   But for what reason?  Neither of these names are an account.

 

What can I do next?

 

A new username can't have any spaces, nor certain symbols.

 

I'm not sure you can use a previous username without special assistance from Geocaching.com.  Your plan seems complicated enough to ask before you even start.  Maybe they can save you some steps.

 

 

Edited October 30, 2020 by kunarion

[+Sagefox 22]

40 minutes ago, kunarion said:

 

A new username can't have any spaces, nor certain symbols.

 

I'm not sure you can use a previous username without special assistance from Geocaching.com.  Your plan seems complicated enough to ask before you even start.  Maybe they can save you some steps.

 

 

Thanks a bunch.  I will try the no space option and the throw out the sos if that doesn't work.

[+Sagefox 22]

1 hour ago, kunarion said:

 

"A new username can't have any spaces..."

 

 

That was it!  It took less than two minutes to make both changes.  I would not have thought about the space because our name always had that space in between the team and sagefox.  Things have changed over the 20 years.  

 

Thanks, again.  You made it easy.

[+IceColdUK 1041]

It does seem to have messed up your Forum entry though...

 

[+NYPaddleCacher 1835]

1 hour ago, IceColdUK said:

It does seem to have messed up your Forum entry though...

 

 

That's because the forum software is still using there username with a space in it.  I logout/login on the forum might fix it.

[+HunterandSamuel 225]

16 hours ago, kunarion said:

A new username can't have any spaces, nor certain symbols.

 

 

I wondered about this! I noticed many usernames with spaces and symbols but couldn't do it with my mine. 

[+thebruce0 2489]

Because it would have been an enormous change across the board, the no-space rule came into effect for new usernames, and existing names were kept as is, effectively grandfathered.

[+Sagefox 22]

16 hours ago, IceColdUK said:

It does seem to have messed up your Forum entry though...

 

It now appears to be corrected.  Signing out and back in with the new name seems to have fixed it.