HOWEVER, the secondary account was the one connected to my blog, my YouTube, and my Picasa accounts, and the moment I linked the secondary gmail address to the primary one I lost access to these through the simple login process.

I decided to link them because I was tired of having to log in and out of two different accounts and Google seemed to promise an easy solution. I followed your instructions and deleted a linked account but it hasn’t solved the bigger problem that began the moment I first linked two gmail accounts. This will not delete accounts of course, just remove them from the saved list. See the “Choose an account” picture at top. If you have never seen this interface it might be helpful at this point to know that once you can see the “remove” button then it’s very simple: click the “remove” button and ‘x’ any accounts that you want to remove from the list. Discussion on a related issue on Google Product Forums.How to remove sessions from Google accounts?.How to remove a Google account from your list of accounts on the “Choose an account” page?.Some of the keywords I tried to find an answer online: How to log out? visit /logout and Google will log you out - then the remove button will be visible. These are some of the URLs that will bring up the “Choose an account” list: There are many ways to end up on this page I suspect – jumping between Google services such as Adwords or Google Analytics, for example. And to find this page in the first place you have to “Add account” from the top right menu – so you have to add an account and then log out of an account in order to remove an account. In other words, to remove an account you have to log out of a different account but it doesn’t tell you which account you are logged into. Instead, it will look like this (with just “add an account”): Easy to add or remove accounts, right? The tricky part is that if you are logged into any of these accounts then you will not see the “remove” button. The graphic above is very straightforward and familiar to anyone who uses more than one Google account. One of those bugs that was somehow thought to be a feature at some point in the development process over at Google. Here’s a quick tip on something very simple that I could not figure out for the longest time.

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