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Forge creating droplets on wrong account

I created a droplet and selected personal, but just noticed the last 5 droplets I created went to a client's account that I joined as a team member. This is an obvious bug in Forge (I reported it as well), but I can't seem to figure out how to move the droplets to my own personal account.

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aurawindsurfing's avatar

Hi @kbatdorf

You could move servers on DO side but that will not solve your problem I guess.

Did you try reconnecting to Digital Ocean maybe?

kbatdorf's avatar

What I did to fix it was to first create a new access token on my personal account. Somehow this was deleted, and the only token was on the client's team account. So now with two accounts I tested it that moving forward I can use the new token, all good.

To move the servers over, I did the following.

  1. Took a snapshot of each
  2. Transferred ownership of the snapshot to myself
  3. On my account I accepted ownership
  4. I created a new droplet from each snapshot
  5. Had to log into the console to update the root pass (just has to be done so forge can login)
  6. Updated the meta for the Forge servers. I just updated the IP addresses.
  7. I will delete the droplet from the team (but not until the DNS is updated)

The caveat being I have to update the IP address for each site in the DNS settings which I don't have access to (for some, yes). But with this method at least there wont be any downtime. I just need to wait for the client's to get back to me.

Additionally, I will have to repay this client who carried these servers for the 4 months! Surprised they didn't notice, and thankful they didn't just delete them.

I have a theory as to how to reproduce the issue, but not sure I even want to try. What also is strange is, when I attempt to delete the token from Forge, it wont let me and states that it's still being used by one of the servers. Well, it shouldn't be since I updated them all. I'll have to triple check before deleting the original droplets.

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