Deleting Visitor Messages

Am I missing something here? Members can not hard delete Visitor Messages on their profiles?

 

How to physically delete all visitor messages

Since members can only soft-delete visitor messages, I periodically head to the moderator section of the UserCP to the deleted visitor messages ( /moderation.php?do=viewvms&type=deleted) and physically delete any VMs the users have removed from their profiles.

 

Is there a way to quickly hard delete 3,347 deleted profile messages?

This is really sad that I have to remove these manually. As if I dont already have enough to deal with.

 

Perhaps with a query. :shrug:

 

Run these queries:

DELETE FROM visitormessage

DELETE FROM visitormessage_hash

UPDATE user SET vmunreadcount = 0, vmmoderatedcount = 0


Backup your server first.


It will permanently remove all visitor messages.

 

I think he only wants to delete the ones that are soft-deleted already.

 

Oooh, I would love to know this query as well.

 

Curious, what is the benefit of this? Just to remove clutter, unneeded data?

 

Yeah. With Invision I can, as an admin, just hard delete theme with one click, as can members. I find vBulletin's system to be a waste of time and disk resources.

 

Its taking out the trash, there is no need in having the remains of "deleted" messages laying around.

 

Oh i see now the issue. Thanks for the explanation. I think you just planted an OCD issue for me now......:adminaddict:

(should have walked away)