Restore a Deleted User Account?

[yavuz]

A user of mine who asked his account be deleted a year ago came to me last night and asked if his account could be restored. As far as I know, this is not possible.

I remember when I was using SMF there was a mysql command which made deleted user accounts "undelete" or more accurate a merge solution. Is there a similar way to accomplish that with xenforo?

 

[Mr Lucky]

That's basically what I do if a user wants their account deleted, I no longer actually delete accounts.

And I will probably start doing this, currently I just ban them with the reason "self requested account closure" (I changed the ban phrase to: Your account has been closed for the following reason: {reason}

 

[Donske]

Well, I was thinking there had to be a way to recover. When I have deleted someone before (upon their request0, the message box clearly says, "this will not remove any post or threads"
So the data is still there. I also see the name of the person is still in the database. So, I am trying to figure out how to get the TWO elements back together again.

I had two accounts on my forum. I had my personal identity "Donnie" and also as Admin Identity 'dbxxskell". I did a very stupid thing and deleted my Admin Identity as there wasn't really much to keep anyways. However, I wish I had MERGED the two. I was not thinking clearly when I did that, So, in the database, I still see my admin name with the ID of "0"
I wish I could get it all back now. As a matter of fact, it is the conversations that I wish I could get back. I am still kicking myself for not merging the two.

I have an old database that had both of these identities in them. I guess I could create a mirror site to import that data. Then take the xf_user (ID) and import that one user into my new database.

 

[Mr Lucky]

See my thread here:

XF 2.1 - Possible to reinstate a deleted account

We have someone who requested an account deletion, which they got and were warned it is final, but now want to rejoin. Is it possible to undelete the deleted account? OR If they rejoin , is it possible to merge their deleted account so their old posts get connected to the reopened account...

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