The linked support forum article is very short on detail. But assuming you've been locked out of your Gmail account and [as quoted in the linked post "...have years of important emails attached to [the] account...":<p>1: Don't depend on Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter etc. not to suddenly lock you out of your account for no apparent reason.<p>2: Don't expect to be able to get through to anyone at Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter etc. who cares about your problem, if it does happen.<p>3: If you do insist on using a service like Gmail, don't keep all your eggs in the webmail basket. Access your account via an email client with IMAP. Then, if you get locked out, you'll at least still have your email archives and can move on from there.<p>It never ceases to amaze me the people who trust monolithic unaccountable 3rd parties with their "important" data and then compound the issue by not having a local copy to fall back on.