# Digest email frequency not updating for existing users?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/digest-email-frequency-not-updating-for-existing-users/92045
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** activity-summary
**Created:** [July 11, 2018, 3:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digest-email-frequency-not-updating-for-existing-users/92045 "2018-07-11T03:06:39Z")
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### Author: ![All\_Might](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f17d59/32.png) [@All\_Might](https://meta.discourse.org/u/All_Might)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2018, 3:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/digest-email-frequency-not-updating-for-existing-users/92045/3 "2018-07-11T03:17:17Z")

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Yep I remember the bootstrap mode! We did the transfer while still in bootstrap mode by following this guide:

> [@Migrate a XenForo forum to Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-xenforo-to-discourse/45232):
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> Hey guys so after trying for a week or so I decided to import the database on docker app which I hoped it will succeed without any issues. TBH I got some issues at first but it turned to be all easy to solve. Now I would recommend doing this only once before you deploy your production site, after importing everything take a Discourse backup, wipe everything out and install new Discourse instance then restore the imported db. Ok let’s begin: First lets backup your old database from your old …

Everything went smoothly and our 150ish members were available in Discourse, and the bootstrap mode notification/banner went away which I took to mean that Discourse recognized our 50th user sign up as part of the migration and disabled bootstrap mode.

But perhaps somehow something went wrong with the update of the automatic user preference back to weekly?

> [@codinghorror](#):
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> You need to run a query at the rails command line to update the preference for all existing users.

Is this a good thread to learn how to do this or would you recommend a better thread to shine more light on preference updates through the rails command line? VV  
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-a-user-setting-for-all-discourse-users/25162/2](https://meta.discourse.org/t/edit-a-user-setting-for-all-discourse-users/25162/2)

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