# Log Merge Overwrites

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/log-merge-overwrites/87056>\
**Category:** HubSpot Ideas\
**Tags:** object\
**Created:** [August 8, 2023, 8:10pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/log-merge-overwrites/87056 "2023-08-08T20:10:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![CCWXA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f08c70/32.png) [@CCWXA](https://community.hubspot.com/u/CCWXA)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2023, 8:10pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/log-merge-overwrites/87056/1 "2023-08-08T20:10:49Z")

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HubSpot should log when fields are overwritten. Nothing is shown in the merge logs. Really, when merging records, records should not have blank fields overwriting fields with data.

Given that a similar idea was posted three years ago, where the post recommended selecting what will be overwritten, I don’t have much confidence that anything will be changed.

[https://community.hubspot.com/t5/HubSpot-Ideas/HubSpot-Insights-Disable-Overwrite/idi-p/329643](https://community.hubspot.com/t5/HubSpot-Ideas/HubSpot-Insights-Disable-Overwrite/idi-p/329643)

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**Author:** ![Em111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a5b964/32.png) [@Em111](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Em111)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2023, 3:39am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/log-merge-overwrites/87056/2 "2023-11-02T03:39:54Z")

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Agree. We sometimes have customers using secondary email addresses that aren’t already in Hubspot so end up with a duplicate record with not much info on it. A few of the properties on that duplicate record would overide the prefered contact record when I merge, so I clear the property before merging. The issue is that when I merge, it then merges with the value cleared instead of taking the value of the other record that still had a value prior to merging.