Important - Your PMs Are Going To Be Deleted

Discussion in 'Support & Feedback' started by digitalpoint, Feb 28, 2006.

0
Page 1 of 4
  1. #1
    I finally got around to coding this.

    So private messages are going to be auto-deleted after they are 90 days old (Sent ones and ones in your Inbox). You can keep PMs for 365 days if you move them to a custom PM folder (after 365 days they will be deleted as well).

    There is now a note about it when viewing any PM folder... for example:
    The actual process that cleans out old PMs won't start until next week (that gives you 5 or so days to decide if you want to keep certain PMs for more than 90 days).

    Any PM you want to keep indefinitely, you will need to download (under the "Selected Messages" drop-down, there are options to download as XML, CSV or TEXT).
     
    digitalpoint, Feb 28, 2006 IP
  2. fsmedia

    fsmedia Prominent Member

    Messages:
    5,163
    Likes Received:
    262
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    390
    #2
    You're awesome Shawn. Thanks for keeping up all the hard work you do for this forum.
     
    fsmedia, Feb 28, 2006 IP
  3. Dekker

    Dekker Peon

    Messages:
    4,185
    Likes Received:
    287
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #3
    Could you pleaaaaase make this a hack that everyone could use as well? :D
     
    Dekker, Feb 28, 2006 IP
  4. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

    Messages:
    38,334
    Likes Received:
    2,613
    Best Answers:
    462
    Trophy Points:
    710
    Digital Goods:
    29
    #4
    All I got right now that others don't is a little originality... ;) If everyone had all my custom stuff this forum would be just like all the others. :)
     
    digitalpoint, Feb 28, 2006 IP
  5. onedollar

    onedollar SEO Consultant for Hire

    Messages:
    3,481
    Likes Received:
    333
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #5
    Thanks for the heads up, Shawn :)
    I liked the way you had the alert showed up :)

    and when it says "Master of the Universe", so you have to comply ;)
     
    onedollar, Feb 28, 2006 IP
  6. muchacho

    muchacho Active Member

    Messages:
    310
    Likes Received:
    15
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    58
    #6
    Shawn, I can't move Sent PMs to another folder, that option does not exist in the Sent Items page.
    Is that intentional? or can you add that option?
     

    Attached Files:

    • pms.jpg
      pms.jpg
      File size:
      8.7 KB
      Views:
      177
    muchacho, Feb 28, 2006 IP
  7. iqra_psh

    iqra_psh Active Member

    Messages:
    992
    Likes Received:
    113
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    85
    #7
    Thats great it will help those who's inbox full for so long.
    Well done shawn.
     
    iqra_psh, Feb 28, 2006 IP
  8. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

    Messages:
    38,334
    Likes Received:
    2,613
    Best Answers:
    462
    Trophy Points:
    710
    Digital Goods:
    29
    #8
    That's a vBulletin "issue". It would be nice to be able to do it, but I'm not going to code it personally. People have requested it for a future version of vBulletin, but who knows if/when they will add it:

    http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=103249


    Uhm, you can always delete PMs on your own you know. :)
     
    digitalpoint, Mar 1, 2006 IP
  9. Dirkjan

    Dirkjan The Dutch SEO Guy

    Messages:
    528
    Likes Received:
    21
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    138
    #9
    I have 144 messages I want to keep. I made a new custom folder called oldies but I cannot move my messages there. Only export them.

    How do I move them? And this: Oldies contains 0 messages (automatically deleted after 365 days). is not true? Because some messages I want to keep are from 2004 ("why do you keep such old junk? to show your children?" "Well maybe! :p")
     
    Dirkjan, Mar 1, 2006 IP
  10. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

    Messages:
    38,334
    Likes Received:
    2,613
    Best Answers:
    462
    Trophy Points:
    710
    Digital Goods:
    29
    #10
    You can't put Sent items into a custom folder, only stuff to you.

    If you want to keep anything from 2004, you will need to export them and keep them on your computer, because they definitely will be deleted (regardless of the folder they are in).
     
    digitalpoint, Mar 1, 2006 IP
  11. Dekker

    Dekker Peon

    Messages:
    4,185
    Likes Received:
    287
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #11
    arghhhhhhh!!!! if you want more sexy cookies just ask!
     
    Dekker, Mar 1, 2006 IP
  12. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

    Messages:
    38,334
    Likes Received:
    2,613
    Best Answers:
    462
    Trophy Points:
    710
    Digital Goods:
    29
    #12
    Some what? {lol}
     
    digitalpoint, Mar 1, 2006 IP
  13. ViciousSummer

    ViciousSummer Ayn Rand for President! Staff

    Messages:
    3,210
    Likes Received:
    526
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    308
    #13
    I thing SVT is on acid tonight....
     
    ViciousSummer, Mar 1, 2006 IP
  14. Dekker

    Dekker Peon

    Messages:
    4,185
    Likes Received:
    287
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #14
    [​IMG]


    now can i have the plugin? :D

    fine since you won't share! i won't share my super awesome kick ass plugin.

    (hint: it's super awesome kick ass)
     
    Dekker, Mar 1, 2006 IP
  15. Blogmaster

    Blogmaster Blood Type Dating Affiliate Manager

    Messages:
    25,924
    Likes Received:
    1,354
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    380
    #15
    Good, I always delete only a few pages, afraid some of the old PMs have something worth saving in them. Of course they don't. Just a habit that gmail has taught me, never to delete anything :)
     
    Blogmaster, Mar 1, 2006 IP
  16. Jim_Westergren

    Jim_Westergren Notable Member

    Messages:
    1,882
    Likes Received:
    247
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    235
    #16
    I just got a warning for having full (1K PMs). I downloaded all as a textfile and deleted.

    Then I just thought about how big your DB might be due to all those old PMs ... and now I see this hack - nice!

    I recently made my own forum and made some custom changes.

    Do you want to display rep and power count over the green squares?

    I also changed to have a new green for each 25 rep, fits better for a new forum. Perhaps I should make a post with all the changes ...
     
    Jim_Westergren, Mar 1, 2006 IP
  17. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

    Messages:
    38,334
    Likes Received:
    2,613
    Best Answers:
    462
    Trophy Points:
    710
    Digital Goods:
    29
    #17
    Yeah... it's quite large. Not so large it's a problem right now, but at some point, it would start being gigs of PM text in the DB just because people are too lazy to delete them... so here we are...
     
    digitalpoint, Mar 1, 2006 IP
  18. T0PS3O

    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

    Messages:
    13,219
    Likes Received:
    777
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    0
    #18
    Mine's been between 950 and 1000 for weeks as well (again) and I'm also one that can't be asked to clean up the lot so thanks for the cool improvement.

    I'd love to see originals automatically deleted after you reply to them and then indeed the ability to move sent items. But you can leave that for later :D

    PS I think this could be worth a 'newsletter' since I know some members don't log on every week so they might miss this post and the 5 day deadline.
     
    T0PS3O, Mar 1, 2006 IP
  19. JEET

    JEET Notable Member

    Messages:
    3,832
    Likes Received:
    502
    Best Answers:
    19
    Trophy Points:
    265
    #19
    That's fine if you want to delete old PM's but I have a suggestion for easy exporting PM's if someone has something important like may be a Trade conversation.
    Can you send the whole webpage as html document to an email I specify ?
    I have no idea about how you will put the source code in a textarea and then send it to email but you are yourself quite good at programming and there are so many others here who have the skills to play with this.
    Putting the source in textarea will be the difficult part.
    There is an export as text option as you mentioned may be something to that...

    Regards
    jeet
     
    JEET, Mar 1, 2006 IP
  20. amitpatel_3001

    amitpatel_3001 Results Follow Patience

    Messages:
    14,074
    Likes Received:
    1,178
    Best Answers:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    430
    #20
    Good Improvement in the forum.
    Just downloaded all the messages :) - 269KB
     
    amitpatel_3001, Mar 1, 2006 IP
Page 1 of 4