What ID?

The longer term one is that Adobe has to change the policy of locking accounts to email addresses and not allowing those to be changed. Live Journal, at the very least, had to change a similar policy, because accounts were being hijacked as people quit using email addresses and hotmail (as the primary example) recycled them. People would pick up new hotmail addy's and check Live Journal to see if there was an account using it. Then all they had to do to gain control of the account was to request a password reset. Made me wonder whether there are hotmail addy's used for registering software at Adobe.

I kinda doubt that there will be a lot of problems with the ( )'s... since the new software will be using them along with the base name as a username. It's unlikely that many people already have login's set up like that... and if they do, it would probably come up as ((name)) instead.

>There's been a lot of coding to do to prepare for the final import. To meld two forums into one is not a piece of cake.

Well obviously it's not. What I'm saying is, you can change your screen name at will in the new forums so I don't know if that (old forum name in brackets) will always work.

Also, with my second account, my made-up 'real name' shows up by my posts, not my screen name, although my screen name shows up in any quoted posts. Changing my show/hide prefs doesn't work. That is weird. I hope this isn't going to be a bit of dog's breakfast, but I'm not altogether confident at this point.

I'm not sure either how things will work where someone's Adobe ID isn't their email address, since the ID is the only thing you can't change and retain your actual identity - linked to product registrations etc.

If you have a non-email ID, and an email somewhere else in your profile (changeable at will) I don't know how email notifications will work - if the Jive people ever fix the spam-blocking problem.

I don't expect you to know the answers, just pointing out some possible bumps in the road.

By login I only mean the account in each forum, regardless of usernames or screen names or anything. I'd simply like to be able to see what accounts from here and there are associated to one another.

That is what we were initially told to expect, but, before the current import, John got them to change the out-of-the-box "guest" import to being able to grab the posters name and use it with the ( )'s. He's been working on other stuff that should show up in the final import as well. But I'd like people to be able to verify... and change, if needed, how the accounts are associated, before that happens. There's been a lot of coding to do to prepare for the final import. To meld two forums into one is not a piece of cake.

I thought old posts would show up as 'guest' if not associated?

>What might be possible, and reasonable, is to have your login (Adobe account) in the new forum indicate what login here it is associated with.

What do you mean by 'login'? You can change your screen name whenever you like in the new forums without changing anything else, I've done it a couple of times to see.

I set up a new account using a gmail address so I would get email notifications, and changed the screen name on that a couple of times just to see if I could.

In the new forums you have an Adobe ID (which is often an email address, but not always); a password and a screen name. Screen names can be changed at will so it wouldn't be easy to display an old screen name as used here.

I'm going to wait to see what happens, Curt. Ideally your posts from here will show up as they do on the new forum. That is... if they got linked correctly, and apparently, there isn't a way to know for sure.

Before they do the final import, I'd really like it if there was a way that you could cross reference all your account, from both old forums as well as the new, and get them linked up. But that isn't likely to happen. What might be possible, and reasonable, is to have your login (Adobe account) in the new forum indicate what login here it is associated with. They obviously have that info, they just need to figure out how to make it available to us.

Most of the logins from here that are not associated to an account for the new forums will have the posters name in parenthesis, so mine would show up as (dorothyk).

I filled out the link window, but for screen name it would not let me use my old name - curt young. I had to use curt98. So with that do my old posts transfer as curt young or as guest?

Somehow with the current system I can't reuse my old name with the new system as it is currently be used by myself in the old system. Is that correct? And if so how do I get around that?

Kath,
Thanks for the reassurance. Please indulge one more question. When you say that old posts will appear under your name, you mean SCREEN name, correct? :)

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... in the current temporary forums, no-one is showing up with an email address as their user name, if that's any reassurance.

I think one problem is that because there were two separate sets of forums, any one screenname could be taken by different people on the two sets of forums.

If you do the linking thing, your old posts, which will be carried forward when the forums join up, will appear under your name. Otherwise they will appear as 'guest'. That's what the linking is supposed to achieve.

Kath,
I guess that was my question. So it sounds like you LOGIN with your e-mail as username but your screename is what will get displayed and your e-mail still remains private.

It also sounds like you do not automatically get the screen name on the new forum which was your login AND screen name on this old forum.

I actually thought that was what the migration was going to do...

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