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Butterfly Bill
03-23-2006, 06:10 PM
(I thought this was supposed to go on Technical Questions, etc. but when I just went there and clicked New Thread I got "Butterfly Bill, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:", neither of which looks like it applies to me. I have been able to post to that section before.)

Suppose I would like to empty my Private Messages box here on to my own box at home, so I can clear out the one here. Is there an easy way to do this in bulk, or do I have to click thru every one of them and download them individually?
Christina Nicole
03-23-2006, 06:52 PM
You have to cut and paste. There is no SMTP or POP3 protocol on the message system.
Warm regards,
Christina Nicole
Wendy me
03-23-2006, 06:58 PM
ok easy on the right hand side click on the boxes of the pm's you want to save thrn at the bottom of the list is a box called move to click on that it opens and you can chose how you want to save them ....do this for bouth your recived pm's and your sent by you pm's you want to save...
Holly
03-23-2006, 07:08 PM
Butterfly Bill... please see my PM to you.
Tamara Croft
03-23-2006, 07:34 PM
You have to cut and paste. There is no SMTP or POP3 protocol on the message system.
Warm regards,
Christina NicoleThis is actually incorrect. You do not have to cut and paste each PM. If you scroll right down to the bottom of the PM page, you will see this at the bottom: -

Download all Private Messages as :
XML | CSV | Text

You can choose to save ALL of them in one go and you do not have to highlight any of them. This option saves them all in bulk to whatever location you choose on your own pc.
Butterfly Bill
03-23-2006, 08:04 PM
I will post publicly the reply I made to Holly:

What you said worked, but none of those three formats gave them to me in a format that was easy to read.

In XML (viewed in Mozilla)I get the messages separated by CSS instructions, and it doesn't send the master style sheets.

The CSV made my computer open it in an Excel spreadsheet.

The text file had a bunch of those [codes] that apparently only the CD.com board program can interpret.

I sure wish I could get them in straight HTML.
Butterfly Bill
03-23-2006, 08:06 PM
And why am I barred from starting new threads in this section?
Angela Burke
03-23-2006, 08:15 PM
Cant you just copy the HTML that appears above the title bar?
DanaJ
03-23-2006, 08:23 PM
And why am I barred from starting new threads in this section?It's not just you Bill, no one can start a new thread in this section, Not sure if it is set up that way on purpose, or if it is a bug in the forum software....
Tamara Croft
03-24-2006, 11:47 AM
It's not just you Bill, no one can start a new thread in this section, Not sure if it is set up that way on purpose, or if it is a bug in the forum software....Wasn't a bug, it wasn't set up right ;) Hopefully I've just fixed all the errors.

If members want to test posting a new thread, please do and we will delete them later.
Julie Avery
03-24-2006, 01:59 PM
I just put up a new test thread, looks like it's working