I just noticed my inbox is beginning to get VERY full of messages, (250) and I was just thinking, is there a limit at all on how many you can have?
I don't think theres a limit, i have 300 messages. But Chris would appreciate we delete down to about 100 I think, cos its hogging up server space or some shiznit.
I'll have to make an archive or something cause most of my PM's are quite important :o ;D
Quote from: ManicMatt on Sun 04/01/2009 01:04:28
I don't think theres a limit, i have 300 messages. But Chris would appreciate we delete down to about 100 I think, cos its hogging up server space or some shiznit.
This might be the case, but times ARE changing really...
A PM has the tiny size of the very few kbs... I mean if you download all your PMs you MIGHT get 100 kbs of text. With the new servers and all that, plus a community whose/which size does remain pretty much the same, it shouldn't be too much trouble to keep your PMs. I must have 30+ pages of SENT messages (I tidy up ONLY the recevied ones). ;D
Now, tidying up is a good thing, though, so do start deleting, there's not so much important stuff, Peder, in your PM box, is there? ;)
There's no PM limit, though they do take up space ... currently there are 52000 PM's in the forum database, taking up 33 MB of space.
I would recommend deleting any old ones that you don't need any more, it all helps. But then I should practice what I preach really, having 1291 in my inbox at the moment :/
I just realised I have 666 messages, how ominous.
426... There is no Save message/savebox function on these boards, that I can find at least :( If there was, I would be happy to delete them all and save the most important ones.
Actually that's a good point: You can't download PMs in this forum...
EDIT: Andail I might PM you just to get you off that awful number... ;D
And I just checked: I have 61 pages (!!!) of outbox messages but only 163 inbox ones, which I have been cleaning for a long time, and still find rather a lot... ;)
One can delete all that don't need archiving, then go through the pages and save them.
I think Firefox can save a page as a single file, including all pictures.
A pdf export feature would still be way more practical.
Is 33 MB a lot? Because it doesn't sound like a lot.
I have 13... I really should cut down.
Quote from: jetxl on Sun 04/01/2009 20:45:08
Is 33 MB a lot? Because it doesn't sound like a lot.
It's not a lot, but it all adds to the size of the backups that I have to download/upload/copy around. It's certainly not a major worry though and not something anyone should go into a mad panic about and delete all their PM's!
nobody PMs me :(
I was going to PM you on your birthday but then I thought "I haven't seen him much, he might not have email notification on for PMs"...
Email notification doesn't work anyway. At least it didn't a few months ago, maybe it does again now?
It has always been working fine for me, even a few months ago.
edit: At least, as far as I recall. It is currently functional for me.
It definitely stopped working for a while at least, I think it was the last time we switched servers. Guess it got fixed eventually though!
It works for me, however it's linked to a mail I hardly ever check.
Quote from: Andail on Sun 04/01/2009 13:54:18
I just realised I have 666 messages, how ominous.
Nothing wrong with that... see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/616_(number)
I have 332+300(I deleted 1 year ago)=632 inbox. As for outbox..who cares?
I've got 74 messeges. Haha, and I thought I had to cut down before CJ sent me a threatening PM of some sort ;)
I filter through them once in a while and only keep the ones I really find important to me. Same goes for sent PMs as well.