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it should use be setting the user to the current user... if it's not doing that it's a bug...

oh, i'd misread the issue, yeah that would be a good feature.

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I'll repeat here what I said on a duplicate issue:

Fewer than 5 imports, I'd say use the devel module user switcher to do an import for each author.
More than 5, I'd say import them all and then use views_bulk_operations to change the users.
I think that the extra time taken by doing several import runs or several alteration operations is easily offset by the tedium of typing in usernames into 1000 boxes! (Your attitude to repetitive tasks may be different from mine, of course :)
More than 20, and I'd say let your users do the imports themselves...

but having a auto-select user field beside each item you are about to import would save HUGE time (like HOURS compared to doing it after, one-at-a-time).

I alter the name and body at time of import as well, it'd be perfect to fill in the user name right then as well.

I took a stab at it...but no go. All I got was the column title working! (that's the easy part tho)

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(sorry, I don't know how to write a patch....I obviously can't even write code that works!)

You don't write a patch, you make one: http://drupal.org/patch/create
Isn't using views_bulk_operations after import is just as good if not quicker?

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