New Admin needs help

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New Admin needs help - Posted By Dave (davehillard) on 29th May 11 at 5:18am

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Dave
Safari
Snow Leopard

Can the Recycle Bin be emptied? Also how do you remove old PM's?

Re: New Admin needs help - Posted By Ross (admin) on 29th May 11 at 10:00am

Hi,

You can use the "Purge Forum Database" feature within the admin panel to remove old posts which will remove some of the older entries from the recycle bin. It is a security feature to prevent data being deleted by accident that prevents any posts deleted less than 14 days ago from being removed.

Old PMs can only be deleted by their participants. Once all participants have left a PM conversation, that conversation will be removed.

Re: New Admin needs help - Posted By Dave (davehillard) on 29th May 11 at 11:35am

Hi Ross
Thanks for the reply. I'm afraid I can't find the Purge function in the admin panel. Is it hidden somewhere?

This is what I've got.

Re: New Admin needs help - Posted By Marc (cr0w) on 29th May 11 at 5:11pm

The "Purge Forum Database" feature is only accessible by the Main Admin account (the one with the username "admin") for security purposes; you'll need to make sure you're logged in to that account in order for the link to show up.

Re: New Admin needs help - Posted By Dave (davehillard) on 29th May 11 at 5:42pm

Thanks for your help everyone. Problem solved.