How to remove the Private Message count restriction ?
- Thread starter TheDragon
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The standard amount of PMs allowed is 75. That is the total for both sent and received.
If you become an AZB Club Member...$30-35 per year, then you are allowed a total of 150 PMs in your box.
Joe
buy a membership
You can't remove the count restriction but you can bump it up to 150 by buying a membership.
Hu
You can't remove the count restriction but you can bump it up to 150 by buying a membership.
Hu
PM quota is globally assigned to everyone... as others have posted, if you buy a membership, you would be put in a different usergroup, which has a higher quota.
Here is a utility that allows you to download your message locally, so you don't have to delete them to clear up room.
http://vcldeveloper.com/products/products-freeware/vbulletin-pm-reader/#more-7
Here is a utility that allows you to download your message locally, so you don't have to delete them to clear up room.
http://vcldeveloper.com/products/products-freeware/vbulletin-pm-reader/#more-7
Thanks for the link. It is annoying to have to keep deleting PM's, but it makes sense to put a limit on them so they don't get out of hand and take up a ton of system space.
James
I also find it annoying. I don't see why it's necessary. Maybe some aspect of my math is off, but if 2000 users use 1 KB per message (which is high on both counts) and you bumped up the message limit to 500, you'd use up 1 GB of space.
In today's terms, 1 GB is nothing. One tenth of one percent of a single decent hard drive.
In today's terms, 1 GB is nothing. One tenth of one percent of a single decent hard drive.
There's already a provision at the bottom of your PM page that allows you to download your PMs to your PC in one of 3 different formats. This will permit you to clear your PM box without losing any of your PMs. They would then be stored on your PC rather than in your PM box.
Buy Azbilliards and give yourself unlimited messages.:wink:
Server space is commonly not as cheap as 'user' space. Not sure how AZB is hosted but usually servers have severe space restrictions unless on a dedicated colocated machine. Also, this forum has ~22800 users (per the main page) and, besides taking space, many private messages slow down the database and, therefore, general web responsiveness.
hehe.... yes, I'm fully aware of that function. You have to download your messages to your PC, in order to use this Offline Reader.
A person can download all their messages as a .csv file, a .txt file or a .xml file. You go ahead and download it as either of those, and open up the resulting file. What do you see? Nothing but a mass of letters and numbers. You can even import the .txt or .csv file into something like Excel and it's still a mess.
BUT, you can download this reader and import your .xml file and PRESTO...all your messages are just like they look in your PM box. There's a Inbox and a Sent box and each message is it's own message. Download it and give it a try... you'll see what I mean
Odd, I'm not experiencing the problem you're describing.
I download as a txt., open in 'notepad' and read it just as it appears in my PM box.
I then create a folder for AZ-PMs and WALA, no limit.
At least that's what I've been doing for the last year.
Works for me.
I download as a txt., open in 'notepad' and read it just as it appears in my PM box.
I then create a folder for AZ-PMs and WALA, no limit.
At least that's what I've been doing for the last year.
Works for me.
I know exactly what it looks like in notepad. It looks the same for all of us. A person would really have to go to the link provided, to read about the features and decide if they want to look at a message in plain text format, or if they want all the features this program offers.
It's really your call, but if you went to the link and downloaded the program and checked it out.. I really think you would be quite impressed with it, compared to what your doing now.
I just furnish the information
I know exactly what it looks like in notepad. It looks the same for all of us. A person would really have to go to the link provided, to read about the features and decide if they want to look at a message in plain text format, or if they want all the features this program offers.
It's really your call, but if you went to the link and downloaded the program and checked it out.. I really think you would be quite impressed with it, compared to what your doing now.
I just furnish the information
I downloaded the program as well, but it won't let me export the xml file and doesn't find the cvs file I downloaded to my desktop. I saved in all 3 formats and finally gave up and accepted the notepad version.
THAT sounded like a really good idea. I downloaded it. Can't figure out how to point it to AZ to pick up my messages.
There is no HELP data.
Anyone on here using this software?
I had posted this link several months ago.. here is the steps I put in there then. Basically, your starting up the program, creating a database, going into your PM's and selecting all your messages and download as a xml file, then importing that xml file into the program.
Don't know if anyone is aware of this tool, but it works great. I wrote this 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
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 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
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.
Ah.
I was thinking unused ones PMs delete after a while. I mean if nobody checks it in a month, it prolly wasn't important. Inactive accounts should too. We have 22800 users but really only a fraction of that has signed on this year.
Think about it this way... even if space is at a premium, the server has no problem making room for every post everyone has ever made. If I can make 5,000 posts and not tax its capacity (not to mention responsiveness), why can't I make 200+ private messages? PMs are just another type of post, and posts have no limit.
mlalum
Banned
Why Don't You Stop Being A Damn Nit And Buy A Membership. You're A Heavy User Of The Site.
lol, you're such a troll.
Thanks, CaliRed. Great stuff. Works perfectly.
Thank you, it is awesome, once I read your directions it was super easy. Thanks a bunch! Rep coming your way.