Is there any way to extract a username from the "user-##XX#" or UUID placeholder?

[Chaise]

Hello, an ask from one of our internal teams came down regarding a page in Confluence which they own, and want to be able to audit.

One older version of the page was edited by a user who has since left the company and been deleted from the tenant, so of course their username is now in the "user-##XX#" on the page itself or a UUID in the version history of the page.

Is there anyway to extract which user that placeholder represents?

I've pumped both placeholders into the audit log search with no success.

I'm thinking I might be able to get results if I could find just simple history in a textfile of sorts for that page, but I'm not sure that exists.

[Alexis Robert]

Hi @Chaise ,

since Atlassian updated the way they handle user data, when a user is deleted it will remove its name and email address and replace it with its UUID.

I don't think you can recover this information, unless you have previously exported user data from admin.atlassian.com (it generates a CSV file where UUID and username are present).

You should deactivate users if you need to keep track of usernames, as this won't delete user information.

Let me know if this helps, 

--Alexis