is there a way to archive pms my box is almost full
archiving pms
- Thread starter FASTEDDIE427
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Yes there is. Open your PM page. At the bottom where you see the words:
Selected Messages, open the drop down box and highlight: Save as Text.
That will save your current messages to where ever you have your browser set to save your downloads, be it your Desk Top or a special folder. I have an AZ Message Folder on my Desk Top.
I check the text file to make sure that the messages have been saved and then date the text file accordingly.
Delete your PM box and start over.
Selected Messages, open the drop down box and highlight: Save as Text.
That will save your current messages to where ever you have your browser set to save your downloads, be it your Desk Top or a special folder. I have an AZ Message Folder on my Desk Top.
I check the text file to make sure that the messages have been saved and then date the text file accordingly.
Delete your PM box and start over.
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try a search
I don't remember details but you can get a free XML reader. Saving the messages as XML they stay formatted and easily searchable. Saving as text works but all of the formatting and such shows and everything is in one file. The individual messages are hard to read.
Try a search, maybe on "XML reader" . That might turn up the info on the XML reader. While I save all of my PM's, I find I very rarely refer to the old ones.
Hu
I don't remember details but you can get a free XML reader. Saving the messages as XML they stay formatted and easily searchable. Saving as text works but all of the formatting and such shows and everything is in one file. The individual messages are hard to read.
Try a search, maybe on "XML reader" . That might turn up the info on the XML reader. While I save all of my PM's, I find I very rarely refer to the old ones.
Hu
I don't know about you, but I have pm's sent to my primary email account. I keep the important ones in a file there, works pretty good!!
I posted this thread several times, latest as of April, 2011
Don't know if anyone is aware of this tool, but it works great. I wrote this post over at Onepocket.org, and thought I would share with the people here as well.
Here is a tool for you to download all of your Personal Messages to your computer and be able to view them, copy them to emails, search inside of them....
This allows you to get your PM's you don't need anymore, off the website and down to your PC. You can save them, archive them, whatever. Great tool to clean up your PM"s.
It's called VBulletin PM Reader
You can read about it here vBulletin PM Reader
And you can directly download it here Download
Some fast instructions -
Download the file, unzip it (if you don't know what that is, just dblclick it, you should see a file inside, highlight that and right click and choose Extract to where ever you want, or maybe just dblclick the file)
Dblclick the file to install the program
It will install and give you a program group called Vbulletin PM Reader, Start the program
I think it asks if you want to create a new database. Say Yes and point it to your My Documents or something and call the database azbilliards or something.
It will create a database and save it there.
Leave it open and go to your Personal Messages and go all the way to the bottom right. You should see where it says Download All PM's .. you choose the format of XML and click Download All Messages.. Save it to your My Documents.. you can call it whatever you want.
Now your ready to import your messages. You already have your program Vbulletin PM Reader open, you have your azbilliards database open in the program, now you just click on Import XML file and point it to the one you saved in your My Documents.
Presto, it will import all your messages from your Sent Items and Inbox and now you can go onto AZBilliards and delete any message you don't need anymore, because now you have them saved on your PC.
It's really quite easy, it just might sound like alot of steps.
BTW: you can create as many new databases as you want, just call them something else for any other forums you frequent. Then just download all your PM"s from that forum as a XML file and import them into the appropriate database.
Don't know if anyone is aware of this tool, but it works great. I wrote this post over at Onepocket.org, and thought I would share with the people here as well.
Here is a tool for you to download all of your Personal Messages to your computer and be able to view them, copy them to emails, search inside of them....
This allows you to get your PM's you don't need anymore, off the website and down to your PC. You can save them, archive them, whatever. Great tool to clean up your PM"s.
It's called VBulletin PM Reader
You can read about it here vBulletin PM Reader
And you can directly download it here Download
Some fast instructions -
Download the file, unzip it (if you don't know what that is, just dblclick it, you should see a file inside, highlight that and right click and choose Extract to where ever you want, or maybe just dblclick the file)
Dblclick the file to install the program
It will install and give you a program group called Vbulletin PM Reader, Start the program
I think it asks if you want to create a new database. Say Yes and point it to your My Documents or something and call the database azbilliards or something.
It will create a database and save it there.
Leave it open and go to your Personal Messages and go all the way to the bottom right. You should see where it says Download All PM's .. you choose the format of XML and click Download All Messages.. Save it to your My Documents.. you can call it whatever you want.
Now your ready to import your messages. You already have your program Vbulletin PM Reader open, you have your azbilliards database open in the program, now you just click on Import XML file and point it to the one you saved in your My Documents.
Presto, it will import all your messages from your Sent Items and Inbox and now you can go onto AZBilliards and delete any message you don't need anymore, because now you have them saved on your PC.
It's really quite easy, it just might sound like alot of steps.
BTW: you can create as many new databases as you want, just call them something else for any other forums you frequent. Then just download all your PM"s from that forum as a XML file and import them into the appropriate database.