So I just fucked up real bad in data management
Ok, so I'm on iOS, have all my photos (~15,000), contacts, paid apps, etc..., this is linked to AppleID Example A ("Old Email")
Now Old Email is actually tied to an old gmail account gmail locked years ago and doesn't receive new emails
my main email I use for all my stuff is Example B ("Real Email")
Now this started because fucking Marvel Unlimited changed their login on the IOS reader app from username/password to email/password. My marvel unlimited account is web-based an Real Email.
I thought this might be because Old Email and Real Email don't match so it logs me in but doesn't think I subscribe to Marvel Unlimited.
So I figured I'd do what has been a long time in coming and fix my AppleID from Old Email to Real Email since it's never been great that the email associated with my AppleID doesn't actually work.
I went to change my AppleID but it wouldn't let me change my AppleID from Old Email to Real Email because the Real Email was some throwaway Apple account I had decades ago that I never used.
So I figured I'd delete whatever throwaway account is attached to Real Email, free it up and then change my AppleID from Old Email to Real Email and then everything would be 1:1 and hopefully the Marvel Unlimited app issue would fix. I go through the steps to delete the account associated with Real Email and it tells me a 12 digit access code that is super important to write down and me being dumb figured there's no reason I'd ever need to recover the throwaway account associated with Real Email so I just copy and pasted it and never wrote it down.
Everything seems fine until I try using my Old Email main account and it is locked and nothing works. I call Apple Support.
Somehow between the pages of being logged into the throwaway account on Real Email and the privacy deletion account, cookies or someshit logged into my main account associated to Old Email and deleted that and I didn't write down the access code.
Spent almost 2 hours on the phone with Apple Support trying everything in the book but no luck or idea how to stop the account from being deleted. So in a few days I'm gonna lose all my photos for the last 5 or so years that I haven't backed up to something (and to be fair most of the good ones I've put somewhere), all my contacts, my calendar which I actually use to calendar stuff upcoming like appointments and any apps I've purchased I'll have to repurchase.
So yeah, this is gonna be bad. Shit. Don't even know the easiest way to backup my icloud photos offline, and will just have to start writing down contact information by hand and my upcoming next year calendar. Fuck.