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I am my group's Owner & only Moderator. When I started my Groups.io account with the intention of migrating a long-standing Yahoo group, I opened the account & created my profile using a different/new email address. When the Yahoo files were transferred over, so was my old account, with former address. I did not realize that a merge feature was available, so I kept the old one as "test account".? I realized to my chagrin that my old account which was start-dated in 2006 (it was actually 2005) is associated with years of my posts and my new account (start-dated 2019) was not linked to those old posts. As an educator in my field, many new people want to search my posts, and cannot do that through the new account that serves as my main Profile. Subsequently, they contact me privately and then I have to direct them to the old account. It's cumbersome and time-consuming. I feel silly for not figuring this out earlier.

What do I do at this point? Can I merge the accounts, as Owner? Both accounts are tagged as "Owner".

I understand the general steps for merging but how does this impact each account, and is it important to merge from old to new or new to old, in order to keep the original start date and connection to the old posts?

I don't want to lose my new profile information and photo-- do I have to copy those over to the old account first?

Thanks for any ideas.

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 12:46 PM, J White wrote:

Can I merge the accounts, as Owner? Both accounts are tagged as "Owner".

Yes. Instructions are available here:?

/g/GroupManagersForum/wiki/Profile-and-Email-Address-and-Merging-Accounts

Last I heard, it was still possible to accidentally delete the last group Owner via an account merge. So make absolutely sure that both accounts own the group before attempting this.?

I understand the general steps for merging but how does this impact each account, and is it important to merge from old to new or new to old, in order to keep the original start date and connection to the old posts?

Yes, it is important. I suggest you merge the new account into the old one. To do so, you will need to first log in under the new account and have email access to the old one.? After the merge, what you are calling your "new account" will no longer exist.

If you subsequently want to change the email address on the remaining account back to the newer one, that is easily done, using the instructions found on the "Changing your email address" section of same wiki page linked above.

In either event you should not lose any ownership of group content that you had before.

I don't want to lose my new profile information and photo -- do I have to copy those over to the old account first?

Yes. Profile information is most easily accessed from?/account?page=viewprofile

Hope this helps,
Bruce?
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