is there a quicker way to delete messages en masse rather than doing one at a time ?                                                                                                                                                                              

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?)                                                                                                                                                                               

I'm sure there was only one a few minutes ago. Memo to self: go easy, huh?                                                                                                                                                                             

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*                                                                                                                                                                             

A stroppy woman??!! Surely not...                                                                                                                                                                              

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.