I accidentally discovered that if you just click away at them, while it's thinking about deleting the first one you click on, you can usually get rid of a whole page at a time... If you're not quite fast enough, it misses out 1 or 2 though ;o)
I accidentally discovered that if you just click away at them, while it's thinking about deleting the first one you click on, you can usually get rid of a whole page at a time... If you're not quite fast enough, it misses out 1 or 2 though ;o)
So that's WHY the site freezes up! lol
(am I imagining it or are there TWO threads with the same title?)
Please note that it will indeed add to the server's workload when you do that, so please only start mass-deleting when the site appears to be running well.
Basically - for the length of time it takes to delete a message, someone else's request to load a page is on hold.
And the fastest way is to hold SHIFT+CLICK. This opens a new page. So hold shift, then click down on the delete buttons. A new page will load for each delete.
This is really hammering the server though, so please refrain from doing so unless you really must delete your messages.
lol - oops! Sorry!
I just copped the strop one day because it was taking an absolute age... & started clicking, not actually imagining it was going to delete more than one message at a time!
Promise I won't do it again
you could have 1 message or a million, it wont slow down the page (Wont explain why).
It will slow things down if u start mass-deleting (Note that when u delete a PM it has to open a new page, which loads all the headers, reloads ur inbox,etc etc).
Does it affect the speed of the server if we just leave the messages as they are? I have a fair few and have never deleted them, besides I don't get that many messages anyway boo hoo
Ah no, I wasn't thinking that the number of messages made a difference to the speed, what I meant was taking an age was when I was deleting one message... it took so long just to delete one, I clicked away merrily on the bin icons beside a whole page full while I was in a strop!
Not that I'm *ever* stroppy... *ahem*
well little miss, that certainly would slow the server down - so its u we can all blame lol.
If you request a page and it doesnt load, the WORST thing you can do is request it again. So be patient! lol
Shouldn't be a problem if you don't delete them, it's only text so doesn't take up much storage space.
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