Cleaning UP PM Mailbox

[Bamboozle]

I like to keep my mailboxes cleaned up. However I can't seem to figure out how to delete old messages in the conversations section on PAFF.

I select a message but don't see DELETE as an Action option.

Am I missing something?

Thanks in advance for any enlightenment offered!!

 

[DaveKile]

So you can get into all your Conversations (Private Messages) from here:

Select: Show All
From there you will see a list of all your Conversations.
Conversations can be selected, then at the bottom, you can choose an action like deleting.

 

[Bamboozle]

The option DELETE does not appear in the drop down on two different machines using two different Windows versions (7 & 11) and two different browsers (Firefox & Chrome).

This is all I see:

 

[DaveKile]

Boy I messed that up. I assumed that was the process and it is not. It seems I can not see any obvious way to remove conversations without adding a new add-on. I will look further on this.

cc: @Bamboozle

 

[Bamboozle]

Thanks Dave!

 

[tomgamber]

You can pick leave conversations and then ignore future replies and the conversation goes away.

 

[tomgamber]

I wanted to keep the 2 most recent conversations so I could only delete 18 at a time but it works.

 

[DaveKile]

Thanks Dave!

I'm completely perplexed at this. I kinda remember being able to do this when the first got turned on. It clearly doesn't support deleting conversations now. I am looking into if there is an add-on that I can get this worked out.

 

[tomgamber]

I just told you how to do it. And did it myself.

 

[Bamboozle]

I just told you how to do it. And did it myself.

I have 20 coversations selected, some 6 years old and still don't see any option for deleting so I have no idea what you are talking about or how you are deleting messages...

 

[tomgamber]

select "leave conversation" then select "ignore future replies" see above. works, i deleted over 100 conversations.

 

[Bamboozle]

That sure is a convoluted and not-so-fast way to get rid of old messages versus checking a box on the Conversations list and selecting DELETE from the drop down Actions like most messaging software...

...but it worked.

Thanks!!

Dave:

I wouldn't give up on seeing if there is a simpler and logical method because it is pretty clunky doing it this way, especially if you have a lot of messages to delete...

 

[tomgamber]

That sure is a convoluted and not-so-fast way to get rid of old messages versus checking a box on the Conversations list and selecting DELETE from the drop down Actions like most messaging software...

...but it worked.

Thanks!!

Dave:

I wouldn't give up on seeing if there is a simpler and logical method because it is pretty clunky doing it this way, especially if you have a lot of messages to delete...

yes, yes it is. never underestimate a good work around. I'm sure Dave will simplify it.

 

[DaveKile]

I have not forgotten this, but don't have any good answers yet.

 

[Bamboozle]

Thanks!

In the meantime I took the approach tomgamber suggested to at least get rid of most of it.