Title: Duplicate Users
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Duplicate Users

 *  Resolved [tomwhita](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomwhita/)
 * (@tomwhita)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-users-2/)
 * Javier,
 * Can you please describe how the plugin handles duplicate usernames? For example,
   if there is an exiting user for “jcruz” and I attempted upload another, what 
   happens?
 * Thanks
 * Tom
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/import-users-from-csv-with-meta/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Javier Carazo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carazo/)
 * (@carazo)
 * [9 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-users-2/#post-7691227)
 * tomwhita,
 * In WordPress you cannot use duplicate names so the plugin will use it as a reference
   to update data.
 *  [emelineser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/emelineser/)
 * (@emelineser)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-users-2/#post-8460396)
 * Hi! And if a user change his login and email, there is a duplicate user. How 
   it possible to find duplicate users and have an altert “There is a duplicate 
   user : M… & M…” ? Thanks
 *  Plugin Author [Javier Carazo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carazo/)
 * (@carazo)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-users-2/#post-8462924)
 * Plugin does not know if the user is duplicated or if you want to update this 
   user.
 * You can set “Update existing users” to NO and you won’t have this problem.

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 * Last reply from: [Javier Carazo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carazo/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-users-2/#post-8462924)
 * Status: resolved