# Usuários do Rake: merge em conta de administrador anterior gera erro

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/rake-users-merge-on-former-admin-account-throws-error/108716>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Tags:** merge-user\
**Created:** [8 Fevereiro , 2019 20:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rake-users-merge-on-former-admin-account-throws-error/108716 "2019-02-08T20:53:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [8 Fevereiro , 2019 21:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rake-users-merge-on-former-admin-account-throws-error/108716/3 "2019-02-08T21:04:15Z")

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> [@david](#):
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> > [@Jim.Morrison](#):
> >
> > rake users:merge[‘source’,‘target’]
> 
> Did you enter the command exactly like this? You need to replace ‘source’ and ‘target’ with the appropriate usernames.

That would produce another error by the rake task:

> “ERROR: User with username source does not exist”

To me it looks like the database is corrupt and contains posts with topic ids of non-existent topics.

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