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RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned???
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Originally posted by wj
Nope, They are not saved
Actually, I have backups of most of the threads I've pruned, on my hard drive as well as CD-RW. However, they're not in a format that makes them easy to restore. I can restore single threads in a few minutes, but restoring large numbers of posts just isn't practical. :p

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
I know it is hard to do, but before pruning (from that date to that date) can the threads be revised somehow so important posts aren't deleted?
Revised how? By a human? That would be quite time-consuming to check every thread thoroughly. Usually I just look at the subject... if it leads me to believe that the thread is important/useful, I'll read it, then decide whether or not to prune it.

Something we could do in the future is have a list of threads that are exempt from pruning. I could modify my prune script to automatically leave those threads alone.

Another thing that could be done is archiving: taking threads out of the database and storing them in a format that's less server-intensive to load. I have some ideas and plans for this, but it's kind of a big/intimidating project that I don't want to get into right now. :p

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Originally posted by Vantage
Oh yeah and another thing, Posts take up barely any Space
I don't think space is really the issue... we probably have many gigabytes of free space on the server. The more records that are in the database, the more stuff MySQL has to sort/search through and keep track of.
06-16-2004 04:36 AM
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Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by crank on 06-07-2004 at 06:43 PM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by WDZ on 06-07-2004 at 06:46 PM
RE: RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by user2319 on 06-15-2004 at 06:57 PM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by user27089 on 06-07-2004 at 06:48 PM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by WDZ on 06-07-2004 at 07:37 PM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by user27089 on 06-07-2004 at 07:47 PM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by saralk on 06-07-2004 at 07:48 PM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by Tochjo on 06-07-2004 at 07:48 PM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by saralk on 06-07-2004 at 08:07 PM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by wj on 06-07-2004 at 08:33 PM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by Vantage on 06-07-2004 at 09:13 PM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by Ginger on 06-07-2004 at 09:57 PM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by lylesback2 on 06-07-2004 at 10:51 PM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by paperless on 06-08-2004 at 12:13 AM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by bach_m on 06-08-2004 at 01:48 AM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by RebelSean on 06-08-2004 at 03:32 AM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by surfichris on 06-08-2004 at 04:43 AM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by RebelSean on 06-09-2004 at 02:37 PM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by Millenium_edition on 06-09-2004 at 02:47 PM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by crank on 06-09-2004 at 04:57 PM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by user27089 on 06-09-2004 at 06:30 PM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by Tochjo on 06-09-2004 at 06:34 PM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by Johnny_Mac on 06-09-2004 at 06:37 PM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by Sunshine on 06-09-2004 at 09:05 PM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by wj on 06-15-2004 at 08:26 PM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by user2319 on 06-15-2004 at 08:34 PM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by wj on 06-15-2004 at 08:37 PM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by user2319 on 06-15-2004 at 08:40 PM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by Johnny_Mac on 06-15-2004 at 09:47 PM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by CookieRevised on 06-15-2004 at 10:16 PM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by Wabz on 06-15-2004 at 11:12 PM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by Vantage on 06-16-2004 at 03:20 AM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by RebelSean on 06-16-2004 at 03:54 AM
RE: Shouldn't the forums be cleaned??? - by WDZ on 06-16-2004 at 04:36 AM


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