# Cannot merge users - process never finishes
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-merge-users-process-never-finishes/341624
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 10, 2024, 3:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-merge-users-process-never-finishes/341624 "2024-12-10T15:48:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Nikki\_Locke](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Nikki_Locke)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2024, 3:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-merge-users-process-never-finishes/341624/1 "2024-12-10T15:48:04Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@cmahns](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cmahns)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2024, 4:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cannot-merge-users-process-never-finishes/341624/2 "2024-12-10T16:05:13Z")
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.