Freshdesk replied to my thread and closed it, so I can't add to it, but it's this one:
https://support.freshdesk.com/support/discussions/topics/50000000860
I need to comment further because the admin's response has nothing to do with the original request. A lot of our old tickets were created when we had poor control over contact and company account creation. We're now in the process of trying to clean that stuff up so we can do accurate reporting on historical performance, but because of archiving, we're unable to remove incorrect contact and company values from tickets and replace them with accurate values.
The solution given doesn't help at all.

