Title: Duplicate user IDs causing issues
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Duplicate user IDs causing issues

 *  [mdneer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdneer/)
 * (@mdneer)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-user-ids-causing-issues/)
 * My old site, which sold digital content, went down a few weeks ago, and I’ve 
   since rebuilt. I’ve tried importing the old user tables (because users have lifetime
   access to their content), but now for each new user, the user ID is shared with
   a user from the old database, resulting in both users’ content being accessible.
 * Since i only have a dozen new users with conflicting IDs, is it possible to start
   new user IDs at the number 500 and add incrementally? I have apporximately 490
   old customers.
 * Thanks.

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 * Last reply from: [mdneer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mdneer/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-user-ids-causing-issues/)
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