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After getting my domain setup correctly by following this question, I have now hit my next stumbling block.

When I logged into my new domain (http://www.accountingecho.com), it logged me in as a new user, not my normal admin account. I think I have seen other users having this problem.

After messing about with the primary domain thing, the new "unknown" user has become an admin user. Which is better than before.

Is there a better way of moving all users (from accountngecho.stackexchange.com to accountingecho.com) ?

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For us this has only been a problem for Google OpenIDs. What we've done is get the user to create a new account, then copy the new Google OpenID from this new account to the alternate OpenID field on the old account. Then delete the new account, and (optionally?) swap the Primary and Alternate OpenIDs on the old account. Has worked flawlessly so far. This means they don't have to re-enter their profile info. However, it doesn't work if they've used the new account and you want to merge questions, answers, or rep.

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I did everything up to the deleting the new account, and at this point it failed. The thing is this account was created when I moved to the correct domain name (foo.com). So the new account may have been used (as it was an admin account). So I want to simply get rid and carry on as normal. Thanks for your help. – Ferdeen Oct 19 at 13:05
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I think the only way is to merge users as described here.

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Thanks for the link. I tried it out and it didn't work. Back to the drawing board. Thanks anyway. – Ferdeen Oct 19 at 10:11
Did the link not work or did the method described there not work? – Roark Oct 19 at 11:55
The method described didn't work. I got the cat pulling the leads out of the PC image. – Ferdeen Oct 19 at 12:52

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