ID’s are a unique key in most database tables – to only way to keep the old ID’s would be to export the entire table ( or database ) in sql and delete the tables in the new database.
The ID is not included in exports made by this plugin ( but perhaps a case could be made for including this, in order to connect up other usermeta data ).
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No, No! That sounds great!
If I’m hearing you correctly, If I export users from one database and import them into another they will be in essence ‘added’ to the existing users, not replacing any… Is this correct?
What I don’t want to do is import them into my network which already has many users and the existing users get overwritten.
So when I import the new users they will all be assigned a new user ID. Yes?
Thank you for getting back to me so quickly!
How you export and import the users will control how the data is managed.
Basically – phpmyadmin offers a lot of export / import options which will do what you’re looking for.
The csv / excel formats that this plugin provides are not ideal for re-importing into another table – this should be done using .sql
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This plugin is intended as a means to backup and view user data – not necessarily as a transfer tool – the best way to move all user data from one table or database to another is via the export / import options in PHPmyadmin.
I hope you found the best way to move your data – we’ve closing this ticket now.
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