Error: "Email is in use", when trying to change email under personal setting

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    rikkehein · Member ·

    I can’t change my personal email adress to another person. I created the site for someone else. I used the “invite” function to add the person to the site as admin. But the user never verifed and I deleted the pending invitation. I expected this to “free” the email. I now want to change the email adress under personal settings to this new user – but I get the errror message “the email adress is in use”. But I deleted the invite and the email is not in use anywhere else. How do I change the email to the new user instead of my email?

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    timethief · Member ·

    You have two separate email address settings at WordPress.com.

    Blog notifications for the admin (like comment moderation, Likes, new subscriptions, etc) are sent to the email address at Settings -> General in the Dashboard.

    Personal notifications (like comments on your post, subscription emails, and upgrade renewals) are sent to the email address at Users -> Personal Settings in the Dashboard.

    Try changing it at http://wordpress.com/#!/settings/ first.

    If that doesn’t work, try Users -> Personal Settings in your blog’s Dashboard.

    Issues Changing your E-mail Address > http://en.support.wordpress.com/email-address/#issues-changing-your-e-mail-address

    Note: After the change you will receive an confirmation email. Please be sure to check your spam/junk mail filter in your email client, if you cannot locate it.

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