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Update merging-multiple-personal-accounts.md #33058

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Deleting an account before attributing the email leads to data lose since, we can not attribute the new account to the old account email since the account is non existents and there is no source to draw data. The better procedure would be to attribute the old account email before actually deleting it

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Deleting an account before attributing the email leads to data lose since, we  can not attribute the new account to the old account email since the account is non existents and there is no source to draw data.
The better procedure would be to attribute the old account email before actually deleting it
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@osur-gaetano Thanks so much for opening a PR with this fix! I'll update the branch and get this merged once tests are passing 🍏

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