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Merged accounts in the wrong direction

Asked by rhpot1991 on 2010-10-01

I merged my accounts in the wrong direction. I would like my LP account to be rhpot1991, and merge rhpot1991-arctangent into it. Thanks.

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Curtis Hovey
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2010-10-01
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2010-10-01
rhpot1991 (rhpot1991) said : #1

Account seems to be deactivated currently: https://launchpad.net/~rhpot1991

It hosts all my memberships/code/keys/PPA/etc.

Curtis Hovey (sinzui) said : #2

I am note sure what we can do. We cannot undo a merge, We can rename the profiles. A merge reassigns keys, and yours were not. A merged profile is also renamed: ~rhpot1991-merged is what I expect to see. How did you accomplish this merge? This looks like a deactivated profile and it may be possible to reactivate it and do the merge the correct way.

rhpot1991 (rhpot1991) said : #3

I used the merge tool: https://launchpad.net/people/+requestmerge

Which sent me an email to do the merge. Unfortunately I didn't pay enough attention until it was too late.

rhpot1991 (rhpot1991) said : #4

Its also worth noting that I got 2 emails, one to each email on my then main account. I only used one of them and noticed the issue. The link in the other email doesn't appear to do anything but time out at this point.

rhpot1991 (rhpot1991) said : #5

Any chance you can just re-enable the rhpot1991 account and I can do the merge in the proper direction?

Best Curtis Hovey (sinzui) said : #6

We talked on IRC and there is some important information that all people doing merges may be interested to know.

The merge did not complete the first time you tried. When the last email address is confirmed, a process starts to move the information from the duplicate profile to the master profile. If it fails to complete, you see a timeout error, you need to keep trying until it completes. Each step is saved, so you are making progress. I know of one profile that took 25 tries to complete. Once the merge is complete you may find everything is as you want it to be. In this example where the merge went the wrong way, I fixed the launchpad id so that it is the same as the former duplicate profile.

We has started work on a replacement merge process that we expect to complete in 2011.

rhpot1991 (rhpot1991) said : #7

Thanks Curtis Hovey, that solved my question.