How do you delete PMs in the new format? I noticed that ALL of my deleted PMs are now back in my inbox. Is there no limit now?
I want to download them before I delete them. How do I do THAT???
And, yes, I second Thumper’s question - how many PM’s are we allowed to have now?
Dodgers…you could cut and paste into a word doc!
Someone in another post mentioned our PMS are now public and I want my PMS deleted and I can’t even disconnect my account. I want to delete messages as well and I’ve searched everywhere even on the Web version and there is no way I can find. The only reason I’m going to stay on this site is so that I can find how to get out of this site and delete my information before deleting my account.
I hope someone else answers. I have had several friends search for MY PMs all over the place. They can NOT get to them. And these folks are good with this sort of thing.
If you really don’t want any more posts…then STOP posting. You cannot, and never could delete your account or all of your posts here. That has NEVER been an option.
PMs are not public, but Thumper I’m still trying to figure out how to clean up and delete…lots of old ones came in with the transfer to the new forum software. I’m thinking maybe there is no limit, hence no way to “delete” and clean up your inbox…
Apparently all old PMs were ported over…even deleted ones. I agree…hoping they restore the delete function for PMs.
Really, for each one of the 100’s of PM’s that I accumulate every few months? You must be kidding!
In the past, it was possible to save the entire contents of the inbox (or outbox) is a single text file. The entire process of saving (and then deleting) the contents of both boxes generally took no longer than a minute or two. If I ever need to go back and reference an old message, I have it. But cutting and pasting individual messages would be prohibitively time consuming.
So we can no longer delete our private messages?
Well…not to worry yet, dodgers. Right now you have ALL of your PMs in your PM box! No way to delete them.
I’ve received very, very nasty PMs in the past (some very recently) and I’m a bit afraid to check whether or not the deleted ones came over as the very first one I would see was a really mean one I got day or so ago.
Can someone confirm that the PMs are just labeled “Message”? It’s the envelope icon on top right of screen?
I’m trying to send one but I want to confirm it will be private. I noticed people commenting on how some other form of messages were showing up publicly under their username. All this change is bumming me out :((
Thanks!!
Use the little envelope icon…it is for PMs.
Just to clarify, all PMs are still private; this hasn’t changed. What some users are seeing now in their profiles that they might not have seen in the prior version are “wall posts”. These are on the Profile page and are now more visible than they were before. You can delete wall posts that you yourself made, and the programmers are working on a way to delete posts that others have made on your wall. If there is something highly personal on your wall that you can’t delete, report it to the Mods and we can have a system administrator take it down.
Your PMs are in your inbox; wall posts show up as Activity on your profile page.
Did anyone ever figure out how - or if - we can delete PM’s???
You can’t delete. Maybe mods have the power, but we do not.
^^^^ OMG unbelievable…one large step backwards…what’s next…a line level interface…
Until they are easily removed in one’s inbox, they aren’t private. The ones that were deleted in my box months or years ago have returned.
It has left me wondering where they went initially when I hit delete the first time. In Hobson’s servers is the answer.
Not okay.
To reiterate, private messages are PRIVATE. Any message you see on your profile is a visitor’s message, left over from the old site. They were public before and are still public. If you have a bad one, contact a moderator or administrator to delete it for you.
SamuraiLandshark, all those messages on your profile were left by visitors to your profile on the old site.
With all due respect MaineLonghorn, I know the difference between visitor messages and private messages. I have been attending this rodeo for a good number of years, and always been able to delete pms until the latest upgrade.
Unless something has changed in last month or so, I am absolutely, positively unable to delete pms. I use an ipad.
If this functionality has been added and now available on a desktop, I will log in to delete PM’s. i could give a rat’s behind about visitor messages.
I am still, and will always be concerned about pms that WERE previously deleted and popped back up in my pm box after upgrade. If this doesn’t concern most of those visiting here, fine…but it certainly does bug me.