I'm just wondering why didn't you just hit the "send them to the emergency withdrawal address" button, instead?
Is your emergency withdrawal address up to date? How mad would you be if you put an old address you don't have anymore in there?
Of course it is, I would be pretty stupid otherwise.
What if there was an actual emergency, where he couldn't just wait for the people to calmly withdraw?
Then he will have to go with the emergency withdrawal addresses. Thankfully he didn't have to get there.
After about a week if someone still didn't withdraw their coins, he will have to start investigating where to send the rest of the coins.