Private Messages

[david63]

Can I ask that you look to see if there are any PMs that you do not need to keep and please delete them. There are currently in excess of 5,000 PMs in the system all of which are taking up valuable resources.

[Meg 50]

dunnit

there's 31 fewer now!

18 in and 13 outs...

all gorn

[gfwgfw]

By Heck help needed

I have lots of messages, but do not know how to delete them

[Kenmo1]

By Heck help needed

I have lots of messages, but do not know how to delete them

Go into your inbox or sent box and open message you wish to delete. Go to top righthand corner of message where there is a blue cross. Click on cross and it goes red and says delete message, click on it and then it asks you to confirm you wish to delete. You click on Yes and message disappears.

Well that's what I've just done and they have disappeared so hope those instructions are right.

Maureen

[Meg 50]

if you want to delete other than one by one, there's a box beside each - click the ones to go - or go to the bottom where there's a 'click all' option.

then, also at the bottom there's a drop down where you can opt to delete all the selected messages

[Kenmo1]

if you want to delete other than one by one, there's a box beside each - click the ones to go - or go to the bottom where there's a 'click all' option.

then, also at the bottom there's a drop down where you can opt to delete all the selected messages

Thanks Meg - that's another thing I have learnt.


Maureen

[oldbluefox]

As Meg says, bottom left in 'Messages' there's a 'Mark All' in blue. Also at the bottom scroll down the box marked 'Mark/Unmark as important' where there is a 'Delete Marked' option. Click on that and then press Go and it deletes all posts on that page. If you have a lot of messages you will need to do this for each page.

[Kenmo1]

oops - I think I may have pressed 'export as CSV' what does that mean and where have they gone? As you can tell I'm not very computer savvy

Maureen

[Suekersh]

Mine are now deleted but like an idiot I did them one by one then read the further instructions.

Sue

[oldbluefox]

Don't worry Maureen. If it comes up on my computer I'll send it back to you. Can you remember if it asked where you wanted the posts exported to. I presume they will be stored on your computer somewhere. If a box came up asking where to export to, that's where they will have gone.

I have just tested it myself and it looks like it was offering to be opened or saved as an Excel file. Not sure what you may have asked the computer to do with it.

[gfwgfw]

Is it possible for admin to access our private messages ?

Graham

[oldbluefox]

My understanding is No. This was raised before and I am sure David said nobody but yourself can access them. So if you have something to hide you are safe!!

[GillD46]

Apologies, I am usually good about deleting messages, but on here I had quite a few waiting to delete. All done now.

[Dark Knight]

ooops, so the 2186 messages I have need deleting, do they?

[oldbluefox]

We might have known................

[JenniC]

Duly deleted boss

[Dark Knight]

all gone
that should speed the interweb up a tad

[Delboy]

All done both incoming and outgoing PM's.

[oldbluefox]

Thanks Delboy for reminding us to clear the Sent messages as well.

Done it!!

[Dancing Queen]

Done

I usually delete every couple of weeks but hadn't realised I had 5 weeks worth in there, will try to remember to do it weekly in future

[Dark Knight]

a surprising number of mine came form the friendly peeps in Admin, cant think why

[Meg 50]

Can I ask that you look to see if there are any PMs that you do not need to keep and please delete them. There are currently in excess of 5,000 PMs in the system all of which are taking up valuable resources.

that was 11.02 today...

how many left to go after almost 8 hours?

[david63]

that was 11.02 today...

how many left to go after almost 8 hours?

Now down to just over 4,500

[Dark Knight]

so who has them all then?
perhaps a number are help by absent friends?

[Peter D]

Thank you for the reminder David. Deleted all of mine.