# Issue merging user accounts, web interace and rake console

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-merging-user-accounts-web-interace-and-rake-console/293938
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** merge-user
**Created:** [February 2, 2024, 5:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issue-merging-user-accounts-web-interace-and-rake-console/293938 "2024-02-02T17:12:25Z")
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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@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")

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Sorry for the delay in responding. :folded_hands: This may be a shot in the dark but is the user notes warning at the top of each of these errors meaningful?

> [@cmahns](#):
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> 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):
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> 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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