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Delete a Large Number of Posts at Once [message #164473]

Tue, 08 February 2011 19:04

jm2morri

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Hello,

Due to an bug during testing nntp functionality, I now have a whole ton of one message that is duplicated 100's of times. Is there an easy way to delete them all without having to delete them individually.

I know the message ID of the first and last message if that helps.

James.

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Re: Delete a Large Number of Posts at Once [message #164474 is a reply to message #164473]

Tue, 08 February 2011 19:07

jm2morri

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I can easily merge all the duplicates into one thread. Is there a way to delete a thread with all of the messages in the thread?

James.

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Re: Delete a Large Number of Posts at Once [message #164476 is a reply to message #164474]

Tue, 08 February 2011 19:15

The Witcher

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Simply delete the thread from the topics page, if there are posts within the thread you wish to keep just split them off 1st.

"I'm a Witcher, I solve human problems; not always using a sword!"

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Re: Delete a Large Number of Posts at Once [message #164477 is a reply to message #164476]

Tue, 08 February 2011 19:20

jm2morri

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Ah, that's better. But you have to be in flat view for that to work. I'm normally in tree view and it's not an option.

James.

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Re: Delete a Large Number of Posts at Once [message #164478 is a reply to message #164477]

Tue, 08 February 2011 20:48

The Witcher

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I see what you mean, but for the life of me I don't understand the fascination some people have for tree view, it's so inefficient and other than showing which replies were to which posts it seems like a big bother.

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Re: Delete a Large Number of Posts at Once [message #164479 is a reply to message #164478]

Tue, 08 February 2011 21:30

jm2morri

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I like tree view because I can see who has posted replies without having to open up the thread. There aren't that many new threads each day on the forums I watch so this way I can see all the lastest contributions at once.

James.

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Re: Delete a Large Number of Posts at Once [message #164480 is a reply to message #164479]

Wed, 09 February 2011 03:16

Ernesto

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I can get that part about tree view, but if you wanna read the messages you have to click on each message individually, so annoying and would take such a long time hehe.

There is no delete topic in tree view?

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