# Yikes. Hundreds of PMs sent after category change

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/yikes-hundreds-of-pms-sent-after-category-change/240515>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [September 30, 2022, 8:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/yikes-hundreds-of-pms-sent-after-category-change/240515 "2022-09-30T20:17:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![ncaming215](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ncaming215/32/205701_2.png) [@ncaming215](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ncaming215)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2022, 8:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/yikes-hundreds-of-pms-sent-after-category-change/240515/1 "2022-09-30T20:17:42Z")

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So, we’re doing some house cleaning on the forum, and I just moved a few hundred posts into a new category. It was going well until …

Dozens of users have now reported getting re-sent private messages dating all the way back to 2015.

And because I was the one who initiated the change, it looks like the personal message was sent from my username.

Should we have been aware of this?

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