# Merge Users borked?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/merge-users-borked/178529>\
**Category:** Support\
**Tags:** merge-user\
**Created:** [February 5, 2021, 9:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merge-users-borked/178529 "2021-02-05T09:56:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Paul\_King](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/paul_king/32/165426_2.png) [@Paul\_King](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Paul_King)\
**Post date:** [February 5, 2021, 12:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/merge-users-borked/178529/4 "2021-02-05T12:36:32Z")

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Thanks. I will uninstall the plugin, on the basis that if the situation is not improved next time for native merge process, I can always presumably reinstall it.

I wonder if the age or source of the posts being merged was a factor? These posts were all imported from a now defunct Yahoo Groups forum, and the import process created ‘zombie’ users where there was no corresponding active user for the given email address already. I think this old user account was an example of this.

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