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May 29, 2025
Question

Reinstate a deactivated email address

  • May 29, 2025
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As the title says, an email address was mistakenly deactivated and I have found it so challenging to access support and get an answer that I'm finally coming here. I only use one email address with my paid subscriptions, so if I can't find a way to make it work then I want to be able to subscribe. 

 

The last time I tried chat support it seemed like they could fix it and then after half an hour they figured they couldn't. 

 

So I'm looking for an email address to ask support so that I don't have to suffer on chat again or someone that's aware of the permanency of a deactivated email address. It was an error on Adobe side that they deactivated the wrong email address but it's been like a few years now and I haven't been able to get it fixed. I've contacted support a couple times a year I guess. 

 

Thanks very much

2 replies

Peru Bob
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 3, 2025

Unfortunately, once an email address is deleted from an Adobe account, it can not be reused or reinstated.

ole77Author
Participating Frequently
June 3, 2025

Alright, good to have it confirmed. Seems ludicrous given it was a mistake adobe made, but here we are. 

kglad
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 4, 2025

create another email.  i've found hotmail and gmail are indispensable.

Community Manager
May 30, 2025

Hi @ole77,

 

Thanks for reaching out, and sorry to hear about your experience. I recommend contacting our support team directly for assistance with this issue: https://adobe.ly/4dFe3Wd.

Let us know if you have any more questions.

Regards,
^AN

ole77Author
Participating Frequently
May 30, 2025

Are you trolling my post?

You linked a page that I have spent hours trying to navigate to get to an email address. 

 

If you don't have an email address for support or knowledge of how to help with my complaint, it's alright, but please don't send me into the endless depths of webpages that lead to no support. 

kglad
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 3, 2025

click the chat icon (lower right)