>>> Sounds like a good possibility.  I just wonder how (or if) you could tease 
>>> apart transactions that happened after the merger, particularly if there is 
>>> more than one active card attached to the record, and the transactions 
>>> happened after retrieving the user by name or other access point so you 
>>> don't know for sure which card to attach the new transactions to.
>>
>> [splitting users by splitting cards, and which card to put new transactions 
>> on]
>> However, if the patron was retrieved by a different
>> means, it'd be a bit klunky/inelegant to ask staff which card is being
>> used for that session.
>
> Sounds like another use for actor.usr.card. ;)

Well, the whole point of unmerging patrons is to fix a mistake, and if
you've mistakenly merged two patrons, then what are the odds of
post-merge-pre-unmerge transactions going onto the right card whenever
the actual physical card is not present?  Selecting one with
actor.usr.card doesn't seem to improve the odds by itself.

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