Fixing missing/deleted Feedburner feeds in my Google Account
A quick note to share how I resolved my problem with disappearing RSS feeds when migrating from Feedburner to Google Apps for Domains. (RSS is the syndication bit that makes this blog appear in your reader.)
Back in May when forced to migrate from the Feedburner service to the… Google Feedburner service I needed to associate my old username with a Google Account. I chose to use a Google Apps account, i.e. my own domain name, and thought nothing of it. When I finally came to look for my feeds I couldn’t find them under my ‘new’ account nor my ‘old’ username. They’d gone, and it was looking like they were gone for good - although the feeds themselves still existed.
Google support is notably flaky when things go wrong (fair enough, I’m not paying for the service but I’m also wise enough to back up the important stuff, particularly email). Hours of searching left me none the wiser until I landed on this page.
Searching for “gtempaccount.com” in my old emails showed that I have another Google account called username%domain.com@gtempaccount.com - whoda thought it? - which, when I finally figured out the password, was found to have those ‘missing’ feeds. Confusingly the email address for this ‘temp’ account appears the same as the one for my ‘regular’ account. Nonetheless I was able to transfer the feeds and double-check that I do still have two subscribers. Phew.
Good luck if you’re stuck in the same situation.
