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8 February 2006 - By Doctacosa
I\'ve added a new feature to the private messenger: you can now empty either your inbox or your outbox without having to select all messages individually. Some people have asked me before to wipe out their list of messages, and you\'ll now be able to do it youself. I\'m sure that most of you never go back and read the messages you\'ve sent and are now sitting in your outbox, so why not take a few seconds and delete all of that?

The method to do it is simple: open your private messenger, go to the folder that you wish to empty (inbox or outbox), and hit the \"Delete all messages\" link found at the bottom of the page. After confirmation, all of your messages will be deleted.

This will have the advantage to help remove some weight from the database: since the board first went live, more PMs have been exchanged than posts have been made on the various topics!! Deleting all those messages that you know you\'ll never go back to read could help to remove some unneeded data.

Thanks!


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Wow, thanks! I thought that\'d be nice. I\'ve had a load of messages in there, so I think I might use it already. Some of them did contain some useful information, though, so I better find those out first.

Thanks again, Doc!


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Awww, but I like looking back at my old messages, but nice idea Doc :D

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Do we really have to? I mean, I have messages in there from the day I joined! I would be really sad to let all the memories go away...


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Please don\'t kill me when I tell you I have every PM I ever recieved and/or sent.

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Originally posted by Mega X.exe
Please don\'t kill me when I tell you I have every PM I ever recieved and/or sent.


I do too. I don\'t really want to delete them... I mean, it\'s memories, you know.


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Thank you Doc. I think I love you. o.o (Hah, not really but okay). I love this feature!

Hey, guys if you keep all the messages you could go over your quota limit. I\'ve done it twice already. o.o



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I have messages that are so old, I can\'t read them any more :rofl:

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Do like I do, save the messages to a text file. :P

...I always forget to clean the outbox though. Woops.

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w00t! w00t!:D As soon as I read this I cleaned out my inbox. This is a fantastic development.

~Juno~


[Edited on 9-2-2006 by Juno]


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Please don\'t kill me when I tell you I have every PM I ever recieved and/or sent.


I had. But now I had to delete all the big PM conversations I ever had with people as Jaden and Kagome.

I think I\'ll keep the \'short\' ones there for a while, spittin\' them through, lookin\' for \'important\' stuff.


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I think that is enough for us to keep posting the downside of this. I think we\'re gonna make Dr. Cossack cry.:cry::lol:

[Edited on 9-2-2006 by Zane Truesdale]


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I deleted all my msgs about 2 days ago. When I received a new PM, all those I had deleted magically came back. :x


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I deleted all my msgs about 2 days ago. When I received a new PM, all those I had deleted magically came back. :x


Maybe there was a slight server problem around the time you deleted the PMs, so part of the database was restored... I didn\'t get such a result during my tests.


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Since so many people seem to like keeping their old PM\'s, is there perhaps a way we could make a PM logger?

Something that would turn all your PM\'s into a large text file that you could save, and then delete the PM\'s?

That might make organizing them easier, granted anybody without their own computer might have problems with that...


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If they mean so much to you, I suppose you could C/P them indevidually into Notepad.


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Time to empty!:D

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I supose I should probably clean my messages, to bad I don\'t want to take the time to save them all...

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On an extra note, the feature is also available on this new board.


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