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		JeremyChase on April 30, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask PG: What if I forget my password? I had trouble recovering my password because the username is case sensitive, and I didn't realize it. I thought I was jeremychase and created a 2nd account until I figured out the case issue.

RossM on April 30, 2009 [–]

I had a similar issue - I forgot I'd registered with an OpenID and thus when attempting to login couldn't figure out why it would fail, even when using the correct case.

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