’
> /usr/local/bin/bundle:25:in `load' /usr/local/bin/bundle:25:in `’
> Tasks: TOP =\> users:merge
Not sure if there’s some other thing I need to do for users like this, source user is a 7 year old account with 834 posts made, target user has 162 posts.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-merging-user-accounts-web-interace-and-rake-console/293938/6 "2025-05-12T19:50:08Z")
Sorry for the delay in responding. 🙏 This may be a shot in the dark but is the user notes warning at the top of each of these errors meaningful?
> [@cmahns](#):
>
> root@forum-app:/var/www/discourse# rake users:merge[‘NikS’,‘NikS1’] --trace
> Plugin name is ‘discourse-user-notes’, but plugin directory is named ‘discourse-staff-notes’
I think I’ve seen a prior issue where the user notes plugin didn’t like not having its updated name. Could you amend it in your `app.yml`, rebuild, and see if that helps?
Here’s the one I was thinking of:
> [@User Notes plugin is breaking my site](https://meta.discourse.org/t/user-notes-plugin-is-breaking-my-site/237190/20):
>
> Even though they link to the same repository, the plugin breaks when it is installed in a plugin directory that is not called `discourse-user-notes`.
>
> So Tobias, I want to bet you’re old school and still called it `discourse-staff-notes`, right?
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-merging-user-accounts-web-interace-and-rake-console/293938/7 "2025-05-12T21:28:01Z")
> [@JammyDodger](#):
>
> I think I’ve seen a prior issue where the user notes plugin didn’t like not having its updated name.
That was a client side issue.
I’ve never seen that server-side warning indicating an actual problem. It’s just something that pops up every `rake` or `rails c` command line.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2025, 9:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-merging-user-accounts-web-interace-and-rake-console/293938/8 "2025-05-12T21:35:24Z")
I thought that too, but thought it worth a punt just in case. 🎲 🎲 🙂 User notes + merging seemed like it could be an unhappy marriage if there were any conflicts for some reason.
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### Author:  [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2025, 6:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-merging-user-accounts-web-interace-and-rake-console/293938/9 "2025-05-13T06:01:04Z")
> [@JammyDodger](#):
>
> User notes + merging seemed like it could be an unhappy marriage
Yes, totally. It might be worth running the rake task with `LOAD_PLUGINS=0`
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2025, 7:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-merging-user-accounts-web-interace-and-rake-console/293938/10 "2025-05-13T07:06:20Z")
Would you need to be mindful of other plugins that the user may have data for? Eg. Solved, ~~topic voting~~ \[1\], polls, etc
* * *
1.
> [@Topic Votes don't transfer when merging accounts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-votes-dont-transfer-when-merging-accounts/277376):
>
> Hello, I searched for a topic but couldn’t find one addressing the same issue I’m facing. When I merge an old account that has voted on many topics into a new account: The votes aren’t transferred. The vote count on threads remains unchanged, even though the merged old account no longer exists (since the old account is deleted after merging). Is there perhaps an option somewhere to address this, or do I need to fork the plugin to attempt a fix? I’m uncertain about the best way to resolve th…
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2025, 2:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-merging-user-accounts-web-interace-and-rake-console/293938/11 "2025-05-14T14:53:28Z")
This may also be a good avenue to explore:
> [@I'm attempting to merge user accounts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/im-attempting-to-merge-user-accounts/342147/5):
>
> I finally determined that the hang was caused by the “from” user account having “orphaned” posts. By “orphaned”, I mean that there was a database entry for the post, but no entry for the topic associated with that post.
>
> You can check for the presence of “orphan posts” in a given user’s account by running this [Data Explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-data-explorer/32566) query:
>
> ```sql
> -- [params]
> -- integer :user_id
>
> SELECT
> posts.id,
> posts.topic_id
> FROM
> posts
> WHERE
> posts.user_id = :user_id
> AND posts.topic_id NOT IN (
> SELECT
> topics.id
> FROM
> topics
> )
>
> ```
>
> After the orphan posts were removed from the database (thanks to the assistance from the Discourse team since we are using a [hosting plan](https://discourse.org/pricing)), I was able to successfully accomplish the account merge operation.