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Time to Delete Old Private Messages
Phillip Dampier:
Our forum continues to grow in size, and the file that contains private messages is larger than ever. While there is no problem keeping around important messages you wish to archive in your PM box, please consider deleting any messages that you don't feel you'll need to review again. If you are hopelessly overwhelmed with PM's (some people have well over 3,000 in their mailbox), it might be time to consider the more brutal approach, and just delete anything dated before January 1, 2008.
We have plenty of disk space, but the larger the files grow, the longer it takes for the forum to display messages, and the longer it takes for our daily site backup, which has grown enormously in size.
Thanks for helping us keep things efficient and fast for everyone!
Ellemeno:
I now have zero personal messages. I bet that'll show up as a change in the file size.
If anyone wrote to me, and is still waiting for an answer, please re-send. I feel pounds lighter!
Kerry:
Have just deleted all PMs in my In Box and Out Box. :D
CellarDweller:
Hello Phillip.
I can talk from experinece about this issue.
We had severe issues on the Dave Cullen forum with this matter. Forum loading time began to slow, and we even had a few crashes as well.
We soon discovered that excessive PMs were the problem. We found one member who had over 8,000 PMs saved!
:o
Once people began to get rid of older messages, the forum's problems stopped.
optom3:
Down to low double digits, just kept a handful of my faves.
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