This change only affects the login page and is being implemented to improve security and to simplify and standardize the process. It will not alter or remove any of the content previously posted to IMDb using your account, it will not stop users from continuing to have a nickname on their profile or from adding content using a nickname, and it won't affect any other user interaction with the site. Please note that users who already log into IMDb by entering their email address, or via any of the other log in options (e.g. Amazon, Facebook and Google accounts) will not be impacted.
The email address you will need to enter is usually the one you gave us when you created your IMDb account. If you currently log in using a nickname and do not know or remember which email address is currently associated with your IMDb account, please log in now and go to the following page to display and make a note of the email address associated with your registration (and start using it to login right away): https://secure.imdb.com/register-imdb/changeemail
Thank you for your understanding.
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The process has unfortunately already changed over to only using e-mail for a login (July 31, 2014)
Is there a login (link) for Username login still? I do not remember the e-mail address associated with the IMDB account. I cannot retrieve this information due to not being able to login.
Please direct me to a link that allows sign in with Username still (or at least a way to get the e-mail address associated with username "flyingjy")
It appears to have switched a full month ahead of time for me, thus not allowing adequate time to check the e-mail address registered to the account.
Would really dislike losing 10 years of board/forum history, vote history, etc. due to this.
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If you are a registered user but are having problem logging in, or if you're experiencing difficulties while registering as a new user you can use this special form to contact us. Please note that this form must be used only for registration/login problems. Every other type of feedback sent through this form will be discarded.Good luck!
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Probably a long shot still, but it's something nonetheless.
What's strange is that no notifications were sent to IMDB users in advance. I only came on here, and saw this topic/message, because it had suddenly already changed to the E-mail login, without any advance warning.
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Though IMDB should really consider putting this announcement on the main Website. If people don't see it here, am sure others are going to run into similar issues when it fully changes over to e-mail only login.
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Me too jay, but the management of these big internet companies could not give a fig about a loyal user, intransigent in every sense of the word, if I don't get my imdb account I will never sign up again, nor use facebook to sign in.........this stinks!!
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Second, where's the announcement about the elimination of the useful MOKA search engine? Now you've replaced it with a much-inferior version using the dreadful advanced search. If your programmers need something to do, fix the broken search engine, stop removing useful features, especially without announcing them.
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Personally didn't even know about this getsatisfaction.com Website until a week ago (and had an IMDB account for a long time)
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If you are a registered user but are having problem logging in, or if you're experiencing difficulties while registering as a new user you can use this special form to contact us. Please note that this form must be used only for registration/login problems. Every other type of feedback sent through this form will be discarded.
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It shouldn't be ): (
It's completely irrelevant. And if you don't recognize the name, you have to waste time re-entering your log-in info again. Please get rid of the CAPTCHA
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You are so right.
All around,IMDB 's new "security" transcends of the Pentagon.
And this login process discourages user contributions to all features.
WHATEVER could have possessed them? Maybe there's a 13 year old programming "genius" at the helm here.
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This link above is my actor page... I have no access to it. There were photo's up a few months ago, then when you switched to the email from nickname they were deleted by imdb? I didn't delete them. I'm trying to access that account and I can't because the old email address is no longer valid -- the domain no longer exists.
I have sent messages to the help desk and they just send me a link to upload photos, but I can't access the account, now they don't even respond at all.
I don't want to lose my actor history on the my actor page -- so I will not create another new account. If someone could help me, it would be so helpful!!
I keep getting a message with the form above, so that's not working for me either...
How can I talk to someone by phone to help?
Please help.
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Your account and your Name Page are two completely different and (other than that one is about you-the name page, and the other is owned and controlled by you-the user account) unrelated things. Whether you have or don't have a user account (or open 10 new accounts), your Name Page will remain the same with regard to your credits. So, no need to worry that your acting credits will at all be affected.
Photos are a different thing too, in that they are a feature of IMDbPro. If your Pro account lapses or is cancelled, your photos will be removed from display.
It appears your page used to have an IMDbPro account linked to it, which allowed photos and resume https://web.archive.org/web/20101116160947/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2389471/, but currently does not. If you are still a paid subscriber, staff will have to assist you to locate and log in to the old user account, or have you open a new one, if recovering the account does not work, then transferring the Pro subscription to your new account, so you can add resume and photos again.
If you click the "forgot password," link at the login screen, then try to recover your account you might be able to access the account even if the old email is no longer accessible. If not, you'd have to contact the Help Desk as they don't discuss account issues in public as the discussion would involve your personal information.
If you can log in (I am not sure from your post if you can as you said you contacted the Help Desk already), use this form. If you cannot, use this special form for problems logging in.
But, don't worry...other than the missing photos, your Name Page won't be affected, and they should be able to straighten out the account issue so you can get your photos and resume back up. Good luck!
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Is anyone else just getting the above over and OVER again, no matter how many times they type their login email and password and the captcha carefully? Seriously, wtf did they introduce this crappy login method for?!?!?!
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