# Disable users list export?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-users-list-export/87277
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 11, 2018, 4:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-users-list-export/87277 "2018-05-11T16:32:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Karl\_Romanowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/karl_romanowski/32/87676_2.png) [@Karl\_Romanowski](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Karl_Romanowski)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2018, 4:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-users-list-export/87277/1 "2018-05-11T16:32:54Z")

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Is there a good way to disable the Export users feature for Moderators? And not just display:none on the UI? I’m OK trusting people to see individual emails if need be, but no one on the Moderators team needs one click access to a list of emails for every forum user. Logs aren’t enough here because as soon as they have that list the damage may already be done.

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### Author: ![Karl\_Romanowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/karl_romanowski/32/87676_2.png) [@Karl\_Romanowski](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Karl_Romanowski)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2018, 4:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-users-list-export/87277/2 "2018-05-11T16:50:50Z")

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One workaround I’ve found may be to just edit the system\_messages.csv\_export\_succeeded email template so exclude the CSV download link. That with some CSS to hide the buttons may be enough.

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### Author: ![Karl\_Romanowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/karl_romanowski/32/87676_2.png) [@Karl\_Romanowski](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Karl_Romanowski)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2018, 7:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-users-list-export/87277/3 "2018-05-29T19:51:50Z")

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Turns out it’s not such a great workaround as it also disables the ‘Download all’ feature for regular users.

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### Author: ![robmc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/robmc/32/125900_2.png) [@robmc](https://meta.discourse.org/u/robmc)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2018, 2:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-users-list-export/87277/4 "2018-09-27T14:09:06Z")

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This has now been added to core - Moderators no longer can download the user list. If they require it they will need to request this from admins

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/6418](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/6418)

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2018, 3:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-users-list-export/87277/5 "2018-09-27T15:34:48Z")

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