Moving users between portal instances

All of these operations are performed in the ZMI, not from the Plone interface.

1. Go to your new site and Delete the following objects (all relative to the Plone site root):
   • acl_users -> Contents -> Groups -> acl_users (delete this)
   • acl_users -> Contents -> Users -> acl_users (delete this)
   • Members
   • portal_groupdata
   • portal_memberdata
2. Cut your existing acl_users -> Contents -> Groups -> acl_users object from the old site and paste it into the new one at the same location.
3. Cut your existing acl_users -> Contents -> Users -> acl_users, object from the old site and paste it into the new one at the same location.
4. Go to the root of the old site, cut the following objects:
   • Members
   • portal_groupdata
   • portal_memberdata
5. Go to the root of the new site, and paste all the objects you just cut there.
6. Your new site should be ready to use with the old users, groups, memberdata and home folders!

The reason that you have to do all this is that the users, groups, memberdata information and member home folders are stored in separate locations, and they all have to be moved over at the same time.