I have a user who has made over 49,000 posts. I want to merge that user to another one. Whenever I try, the process takes longer than my web client can stay running (we are having power cuts daily because of a recent storm)…
How long would you expect it to take?
It takes a while on my server for these types of users, longest I saw was maybe a couple hours depending on how much the account was used and server load.
Question, do you have shell access to the host? It might be better to run rake users:merge['source-username','target-username'] process in the Discourse app in a tmux just given your connectivity issues. You’d be able to reattach to the server running the process when you regain connectivity.