Title: Minor problem with Import-MT
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Minor problem with Import-MT

 *  [Les](https://wordpress.org/support/users/les/)
 * (@les)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minor-problem-with-import-mt/)
 * Here’s one I can’t seem to find in the message forum. Downloaded the latest nightly.
   Installed without issue and logged in as admin. Exported entries from MovableType
   and ran import script. Told it to change all authors to the admin account under
   WordPress.
    It imports all the entries without issue, but instead of assigning
   them all to the admin account it makes a new user account with the same name 
   and attaches all the entries to that instead. So I’m now left with two accounts
   with the same ID with all the imported entries associated with the second account.
   Not sure what I’m doing wrong.

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 *  [pstew21](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pstew21/)
 * (@pstew21)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minor-problem-with-import-mt/#post-53281)
 * Yeah, I noticed this too, key is to change your admin back to admin and when 
   you run the 1.2 mt-import script, then select admin and import, then it seems
   to import all to admin. Then change the name of the admin nick to whatever you
   want.
 *  Thread Starter [Les](https://wordpress.org/support/users/les/)
 * (@les)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minor-problem-with-import-mt/#post-53282)
 * Hmmm. I’ll try that.
 *  Thread Starter [Les](https://wordpress.org/support/users/les/)
 * (@les)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minor-problem-with-import-mt/#post-53283)
 * Funky. It worked.
 *  [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * (@carthik)
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minor-problem-with-import-mt/#post-53291)
 * Using a choise from the dropdown menu should work fine too.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [carthik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/carthik/)
 * Last activity: [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/minor-problem-with-import-mt/#post-53291)
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