Questions tagged [merge-accounts]
For questions about how the account merge system works.
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Merging two accounts: what happens if on one of them I'm banned from asking
I have another account, maybe more, I don't remember, the last time I logged to one of them maybe 2 years ago or more.
On one of them I'm banned from asking on askubuntu I think,because I didn't know ...
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Combining stack exchange accounts with different emails
I have an account with tex.stackexchange.com and math.stackexchange.com that use different email accounts. I want to combine these. I have changed the email accounts so they match, but the accounts ...
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I want to merge two accounts but have same email and pword for both so can't provide profile links for both to log in!
Here what I had prepared for the merge support guys...
I have two accounts with the same email [email protected] and I want to merge them together. This came about as a result of the fact ...
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Profiles - different or not?
I have posted to different sites (Ask Different, Tex, Stack Overflow, and now Area 51) but on the Area 51 photo (after I commit) only my Stack Overflow reputation score is shown.
Now, are these two ...
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Move ux.stackexchange.com posts to a different account
I have a stackexchange.com account that is registered with the following:
Stackoverflow
UX
Programmers
I have made multiple posts on the various sites but I'm only interested in transferring across ...
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Improve the error message when a user tries to merge accounts on separate sites
If users try to contact us in order to merge two accounts, they will be blocked if they use accounts from two different sites:
Now, stricting speaking, this is a valid profile. It just isn't a ...
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Private beta site login vs OpenID: how to untagle the web?
So I tried to get into a new site currently in private beta but I've made a mess of it. According to this it should have been straight forward. I followed the links from Area51 and filled in my usual ...
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'Sub'-account merge with new account
Is it possible to 'merge' only a site account (part of a network account) into a new account whilst preserving all the other site accounts part of the network account?
For the avoidance of doubt, let'...
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How can I merge duplicate accounts if support doesn't help me?
I want to merge my accounts.
I sent an email to Support Team three times. First time a month ago. And nothing...
How can I do this? Who can help me?
Thank you.
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Seem to have lost 4 Silver badges and 10 Bronze badges
I updated my email on SO, and for some reason now, I've lost 4 silver badges and 10 bronze badges. Not sure what is going on here, does anyone have an idea?
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Adding an OpenId on careers.stackoverflow.com fails with a 404 if the OpenId is assigned to another account
I am trying to change my OpenId from my old email address to a new one. The problem is, I have logged in accidentally with my new account in the past, and so I have an empty account that I don't use, ...
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Merge Profiles option of Contact Form validation rejects https:// urls in profile fields
Steps to reproduce:
Go to the "Contact Us" page at https://stackoverflow.com/contact
Select "I need to merge user profiles"
The autofilled profile URL may be https://, in which case it will be throw ...
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Add reputation to my new account
I have used SO profile(Umesh) for 2 years and my reputations has crossed 4k+.
Unfortunately, the email ID I used to log in is no longer active. So, I can't use it for logging into Stackoverflow.
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Can someone merge my accounts [duplicate]
I submitted a request for merging two accounts of mine yesterday:
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/45811/daniel merge delete
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/users/...
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Merge two Stack Exchange accounts
Yes, I have read the Stack Overflow help on how to merge accounts, but it does not explain how to merge two Stack Exchange accounts, each being linked with several of the subsites.
I tried:
to add &...
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Borrowing points from one Stack Exchange account for bounty on another? [duplicate]
I don't see an answer to this here, so:
Can I borrow points from one Stack Exchange site for a bounty on another?
Specifically, I want to move some points from one of my other Stack Exchange ...
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Side effect of merging bad account with good account?
This question is already answered here How can one link/merge/combine/associate two accounts/users? (Anonymous/unregistered/cookie or OpenID/registered) but I have a slightly different from this one.
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Merging accounts [duplicate]
I answered a question without creating an account I guess.
This account was somehow created for me.
https://stackexchange.com/users/778707/favone
Then I registered the name, but a new account was ...
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Recover SO account after google email was deleted [duplicate]
I deleted my google account a few months ago. And I can't restore deleted email.
How can I restore or merge my old SO account with the new one?
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I lost all my data and reputation in SO [closed]
I know that this question has been asked before, but today when I logged into StackOverflow all my profile was gone: questions, reputation, profile data, everything! Can someone give me a hand on this?...
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Can someone merge my two accounts?
Over 48 hours ago I submitted a Contact Us item requesting help.
Here are the details.
I have a SO account which I've lost because I changed the email address associated with my google account -- ...
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How can I merge different accounts for Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
How do I consolidate all my accounts into one? I have this account on Stack Overflow
Then this one shows up for my Stack Exchange
How would I add them all together ?
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how to merge 2 different user names of a single user [duplicate]
I ended up with 2 user names for seasoned chef, I don't know how to merge them together, so that I get mails to the single inbox
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Merge via openid does not reassociate migrated questions
On Astro.SE we had a slight issue with a user who had asked a question on Space.SE that got migrated over.
He seemed to have two accounts, and had logged in with account A, while the question was ...
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Are MyLogins part of merging two my accounts?
I have two account here, these accounts are already in merging process
1st original mKorbel (merge keep) with OpenID login
2nd mKorbel (merge delete) with Stack Exchange login
Is Stack Exchange ...
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How can I undo a horcrux when I'm unable to go through a process of deep remorse for the murder committed to create the Horcrux?
I was trying to surf the net with Google Chromium today, and the first site I visited was stackoverflow.com. Since I visited as a visitor, I was searching the user of myself, and surprisingly found a ...
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Unlink account from Google [duplicate]
For some reason I have created my Stack Overflow account linked from my Google account. Can I create a Stack Exchange account and connect my existing Stack Overflow account to the new ...
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Multiple accounts on Stack Overflow [duplicate]
OK. So I have sinned and here I am at the confessional.
Yes, the mods wern't too happy about it but I made a suggestion to one mod. How about pulling in all my various accounts under this IP and ...
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How long does it take for an account merge request to be processed?
Before anyone gets the wrong idea, I am not at all complaining. I could not find an ETA on the contact us page or from briefly scraping google and meta SO. What is the estimated time required for SO ...
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Allow community moderators to merge accounts where one is Unregistered
Community moderators used to be able to merge user accounts but that was removed on the basis of privacy concerns, especially the log-in credentials (as I understand).
I am asking for the ...
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What is the privilege outcome of merging two accounts?
If I merge two accounts, what is outcome of posting privileges? One account does not have question asking permission, the other does.
What should be expected if I merge?
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Is there a way to Merge two stack overflow user accounts [duplicate]
So my Google accounts primary email address has changed. This means now when I log into SO, I don't have access to my old posts as a new account seem to have been created :-(
Is there anyway to ...
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Merge the two "merge user profiles" articles in the help center
The help center article I accidentally created two accounts; how do I merge them? reads:
If you have two accounts that you would like to join together, please contact us to do so. You will need ...
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The merge feature does not kick in - Stack Overflow thinks that the users are two separate users
I have apparently recently created a user using Facebook login, and this will not merge into my main account (which uses OpenID and Google).
When using the "merge procedure", a screen just shows up ...
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Editing 'My Logins' doesn't seem to work, can't merge accounts
I'm having trouble getting my accounts merged.
It's about merging
https://stackoverflow.com/users/2378523/not-sehe
into https://stackoverflow.com/users/85371/sehe
I followed the instructions
https:...
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What happen exactly after merge two accounts of one stackexchange site?
What happen with the old account? It disappear? All the activity of the old account will appear as if were made by the new account at first instance or in some way is marked the old account activity ...
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Moving job listing to another Careers account
Our HR person create a job listing in Careers under her account. I then realized that we can't have more than one user associated with our company, so we probably want to link our OpenIDs to the same ...
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Merge Account: Steps not working
as per Merge Help, I try to add my second account Login [Google] to my main account which use Facebook login. System to do detect that my Google login is used by another account, but as suggested in ...
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Help Merging Accounts
So I found out today when trying to change my email in my account that I already had an account registered to that email. So I'd like to combine my two accounts, but the merge instructions aren't ...
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Can these accounts on Data.SE please be merged?
Normally getting accounts merged is a straightforward process that can easily be done by a moderator. However, that is definitely not the case over on Data.SE.
I have accidentally created two user ...
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Merge old account information with new account [duplicate]
I had a Stack overflow account along with 160 reputations which was created with my previous company's email id and password. And now i have changed company and my previous company has blocked that ...
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How do I figure out which account I've used to log in?
This is my user account:
https://stackoverflow.com/users/523350/smacdonald
Is there a way to figure out which email address or account is associated with that user so that I can log in to it?
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Multiple logins and account association(Not working??)
At my work place I am not able to use Google id to login but for some reason I am able to sign in using Yahoo id. My primary account(reputation wise) is using Google ID and i am having trouble linking ...
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Account association
I have my SO account registered in Gmail. In my office I couldn't access Gmail due to proxy settings. So my question is, if I create a new account using Stack Exchange, and merge them, I asked for ...
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Is Stack Overflow merging two different accounts by email without the user's consent?
I had one account through Google with email X and another account through myopenid.com. I happened to add the same email X to this myopenid.com account. My intention was to stop using the Google ...
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forgot password, log in, but account now different?
I haven't used stack overflow for a few years, but I had some rep on my old account.
So i click on 'forget password' a reset link gets sent to my email, I click it, and it logs me in, I ask a ...
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Login to StackOverflow without using your StackExchange login [closed]
I have a problem. Some time ago I created a stackoverflow account and while I was browsing the other sites of the "stack" family, I decided to create a StackExchange account which I used to log into ...
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Failed to merge 2 accounts (Stack Overflow vs. Stack Exchange issue)
I followed the instructions on https://stackoverflow.com/help/user-merge and it did not work.
I'll have my other account that I want merged in also post on this.
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Migration of a question have lost me ownership?
I originally posted a question on Serverfault:
https://serverfault.com/questions/478828/best-selection-of-tansfer-method-of-digital-evidence?noredirect=1
It was later migrated by site admins to ...
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Where did my Unsung Hero badge go?
I have over 900 reputation and over a year of answering others programming questions on Stack Overflow, and I had a Unsung Hero gold badge about 2 weeks ago and I had just gotten it and within like a ...
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