Notice of sent pm's are going to be automatically purged.

[mod 135640]

Many accounts seam to have very FULL sent item boxes so I have turned on a feature on the system that will remove all "SENT" pm's after 30 days of sitting in your sent pm folder. I think by cutting down this excess amount of storage it will help prevent future issues (and make the backups of the database substantially smaller - therefore making them less prone to not backing up completely).

 

A lot of this is just growing pains for the site.

[Guest W***ledi*Time]

... I have turned on a feature on the system that will remove all "SENT" pm's after 30 days of sitting in your sent pm folder...

 

Mod, it might be a good idea to issue a warning about this in the form of a mandatory-viewing post.

[mod 135640]

Good idea. I copied this to it's own thread and will make it a mandatory read.

[Peachka 4334]

It might be a good idea to also limit the in-box messages as well. 1,000 is too generous & unnecessary. I think 500 is still more than enough. (in-box & sent) A lot of us will fill-up our in-box & not delete messages because we can. Maybe start with new members & see how that goes.

[mod 135640]

New members have 100 spots... Sp's and Senior/elite members have 1000 (a lot less senior/elite/sp members) so that is not really a concern for space at this time... but not dumping your sent items folder is. If you create a new folder and mover anything you want to keep into the new folder it will not be purged from the script I just installed.

[theghostrider78 100]

Thanks for getting everything back in order

 

Ghost

[srch4intimacy 204]

I applaud the efforts to keep things clean, however, in the future, you may want to warn people in advance of turning on such a feature in case there is something someone may want to keep or download somewhere offsite for whatever reason instead of just having things deleted on them.

[etasman2000 15994]

uugh......the warning was quite prominent when I logged in a few days back. Won't let me continue until I read it.

[mod 135640]

It;s only your sent items folder... and most places don't store these. They are more of a pain in the rump for most of us as we have to go in and manually purge them. A option exists to download them (even to a spreadsheet format or txt file) so if for any reason you want them you can download them.. No idea why you would want then but go nuts.

 

I have said it before and will say it again... don't keep anything in the PM system that you feel is important enough that you would be lost without it. Make a copy (backup) offline of PMs that you want to keep...Same with posts. The site runs on a database and as we say last week.... when a problem hits the site we can loose data. We could loose members, posts, pm's, photos, etc... so make a backup.

[MREXTACE 100]

Great Job and Thank You!

[sexystar420 390]

Hello All,

 

I think 500 in/sent msgs is more than enought. However I believe we should have at least 60 days to decide what we would like to do with our emails. We are after all taking a hit on the account size. Just a thought " ) Cheers

[Dorinda Bloom 44036]

Thank you for letting us all know, as well as keeping us informed regarding other important matters. The leadership of this site is greatly appreciated by this member.

I know for a fact that I keep all pertinent private messages and refer to them months after the fact of receiving them to double check and verify questions and information regarding potential new friends.

Personally, I really like having a large send/sent box to refer to past requests. At the same time, I understand the limits the site can take. Thank you for your service and diligence; I appreciate it.

[drlove 37204]

Thanks, Mod

 

You saved me from having to delete them all myself!

[gui_2046 100]

great info

[SweetKaty 100]

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[E.D. man 691]

you want even more room delete all pm's over 30 days.

[dazednconfused 100]

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