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Username Purge (an update)

squeaky

5/13/11 08:11 am

This is going to take probable 3-4 weeks to get all of the inactive accounts as there are a lot of them and I don't want to kill the servers doing this.

As always you can see what usernames are available here.

http://www.insanejournal.com/purged_usernames.bml

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• ex_propose882

  5/23/11 04:13 am (UTC)

  hi squeaky! i have a question that maybe you or anyone else can answer. i want to rename a journal to one that's going to be purged. i can rename the journal directly to the purged one, correct? without creating a separate account for the purged one and then renaming it again? i plan on keeping the link between the two usernames so i lose nothing, but i just wanted to make sure this can be done before i try to do this and lose everything completely.

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  • lilymunster

    5/23/11 07:52 am (UTC)

    

    i did this yesterday or the day before without creating a seperate account for the purged one. i just clicked on use rename token and entered the purged journals name for the rename.

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    • ex_propose882

      5/23/11 10:31 am (UTC)

      awesome! thanks for clearing it up for me!

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  • briankinney

    5/23/11 10:05 am (UTC)

    

    Yep!

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    • ex_propose882

      5/23/11 10:32 am (UTC)

      thank you! it's great to know from two different people i can do just that!

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      • briankinney

        5/23/11 10:39 am (UTC)

        

        Just make sure you select "Keep all users and asylums from your friends list," "Keep everyone from your friend of list," and "Automatically forward users from (old username) to (new username)" when you rename. :)

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