# Duplicate user records!

**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/duplicate-user-records/68955
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [December 23, 2023, 9:02am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/duplicate-user-records/68955 "2023-12-23T09:02:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Evgeny1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/evgeny1/32/68231_2.png) [@Evgeny1](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Evgeny1)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2023, 9:02am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/duplicate-user-records/68955/1 "2023-12-23T09:02:09Z")

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Hey folks,

I’ve noticed that Glide will sometimes create a new user record in the Users table (Google Sheets) even if there’s already a record with the same user name in the Users table.

Is there a way to prevent this behavior?

What I’m looking for is: if there are no records in the Users table with the email address of someone creating an account - create a new record; if there is already a record - DO NOT create a new record and use the existing record instead.

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### Author: ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2023, 10:28am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/duplicate-user-records/68955/2 "2023-12-23T10:28:51Z")

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Just to be clear, Glide will not prevent duplicate user names, but it will prevent duplicate user email addresses - as long as User Profiles are properly configured. Can you please provide screen shots of:

- Your User Profiles configuration
- Your User Profiles table - from the Glide Data Editor - clearly showing the column headings

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### Author: ![Evgeny1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/evgeny1/32/68231_2.png) [@Evgeny1](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Evgeny1)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2023, 10:45am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/duplicate-user-records/68955/3 "2023-12-23T10:45:10Z")

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Before I wrote the post, I manually deleted the duplicate user record!

So, sharing the user configuration and the column headings in the Users record. As soon as I spot another duplicate email, I’ll share in the reply.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/0/5/05464869d442c19194381604e37164c2908330cf.png)

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/f/4/f4a2d50b68ce164a60ff7023411a52e5fbdc4151.png)

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/glideapps/original/3X/3/e/3ed337237d119c524f60d1605f963954e1c8eb14.png)

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### Author: ![Darren\_Murphy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/darren_murphy/32/47326_2.png) [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2023, 10:56am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/duplicate-user-records/68955/4 "2023-12-23T10:56:30Z")

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Your Photo column is a Text type column. It should be an Image type.  
I wouldn’t expect that to cause any problems, but it might. So you should fix that.

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### Author: ![Evgeny1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/evgeny1/32/68231_2.png) [@Evgeny1](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Evgeny1)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2023, 11:15am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/duplicate-user-records/68955/5 "2023-12-23T11:15:18Z")

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Thank you. Will change the photo column and see how it goes…