if you want, i'm happy to let my forums be a "gateway" to pm's. we only have 1 member, me, so, if you want to move pm's to my forum, i'll post the link.

http://lokisforum.boardzero.com/forum.html

That's a very nice offer, but it's not possible to move existing PMs to your forums. The number of PMs we have here would probably exceed your allotted forum space, too.

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lol QuickStorm

Please share how you copied your PMs to a text file. I've been just copying and pasting one PM post at a time and it is a bit tedious to say the least. Any easier way would be much appreciated. Thank you!

It's fairly straightforward, although slow and tedious if you have to do a lot of them at once, because each page of the PM thread must be copied and pasted before moving on to the next page.

If all you want to do is preserve the text, simply use the cursor to highlight from the PM subject line (just under the Participants tab) to the bottom of the last reply on that page of the PM and copy it (Ctrl-C on Windows and Command-C on Mac), then paste it into a text program, such as Notepad, WordPad, TextEdit, etc. and save it. That is how I preserved my PMs, since it requires the least space on my hard drive.

If you want to preserve the look and formatting of the page, with all the colors and images, just highlight the portion of the PM you want to save and copy it into something like Microsoft Word. It will look just like the PM, but the files will be considerably larger (20 times the size of a simple text file is typical, but it depends upon how many images are in the PM).

There are also ways to save the HTML or the Web page through the browser, but those methods copy more than just the PM thread.

If you want to be really organized, you can make a folder called something like Saved PMs and make a subfolder in that folder for each person or type of PM.

I'm admin of a forum that uses a variant of UBBThreads (Groupee). In there, a PM is only properly deleted if the originator of the PM deletes it.

I've done some testing here, and I've seen that a PM thread is deleted only when all participants delete it, regardless of who is the last one to delete it.

what i meant to say was:



i'll start a topic for private conversations (pc's), where you can start pc's which will be automatically pruned if not replied to in x no. of days. in addition, you can create pm's witch will not be pruned, but at an upper limit of 5 per person at any one time.

Just a tip for people using Safari - a really good way (like Lady mentioned) is to save the pm directly from the browser. Just make sure you save it is a pdf NOT a web archive as your computer will not be able to track the site if you delete the pm. To save as a web archive you click File and the Save As, but to save it as a pdf go File and then Print, and choose save as pdf from the bottom right hand button.