LInking two accounts, lost access to email of one of the two

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I have two accounts. One created with facebook and one created with google account. My main account is my google account and I want my facebook account to be linked with my google based imdb account. I deleted the imdb application from my facebook but whenever I try to link my main imdb account with my facebook account my facebook account automatically links to my old imdb account.
I tried deleting my old imdb account but it needs access to my email. I no longer have access to my old email and I do not remember the password to my old imdb account.
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There's no way to 'merge' accounts on IMDb. The most common reason why
people ask to merge accounts is when they have two accounts, one with a
preferred email address that they like to continue using but no data
associated with it (e.g. no votes, watchlist, board post history) and
another one with a lot of 'history' (ratings, reviews, lists) but with
an email that they don't want to use anymore.


The right way to fix this is to delete the account with no data. This
frees up the email address associated with it so that it can be added to
the other account.


For example: let's say that you have an account registered as fritz@gmail.com with little or no data, and another one as fritz@hotmail.com
with a lot of data (votes, lists etc.), and the hotmail.com account
doesn't work anymore. What you would do is log into the IMDb account
registered to fritz@gmail.com and delete it using the option located here:


https://secure.imdb.com/register-imdb...


Once you delete the account, the fritz@gmail.com address would be freed up for use. So you can log into the account registered as frltz@hotmail.com, and then use the 'change email' option (https://secure.imdb.com/register-imdb...) to update the email address to the one you want to use (fritz@gmail.com).




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Note: I'm quoting this directly from:
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/how_can_i_merge_my_old_and_new_accounts_on_imdb_com

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