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Post by friarygirl » Sun Aug 03, 2008 1:15 am

My inbox register says 108% full. My outbox says 123% full. So what's happening, is it automatically deleting the ancient stuff, or is it going to get fuller and fuller? Should I be deleting minor messages and keeping stuff I might want to refer back to in case it gets automatically wiped?

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Post by Jomomma » Sun Aug 03, 2008 4:21 am

It will delete the oldest stuff.

If there is stuff that you absolutely want to save you can always put it in the save box
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Post by friarygirl » Sun Aug 03, 2008 6:27 am

Oh crap. I was hoping you weren't going to say that. This means I have to expend serious energy on sorting through my ancient pms and saving the ones that matter, doesn't it?

Well thanks anyway, at least I can go and do that, not just get mad when I found some of my pms from 2002 are missing... :roll:

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Post by LBC » Sun Aug 03, 2008 2:19 pm

friarygirl wrote:Oh crap. I was hoping you weren't going to say that. This means I have to expend serious energy on sorting through my ancient pms and saving the ones that matter, doesn't it?
I remember having to do this about a year ago...it's kinda fun, to go back and read old PMs.

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Post by NobodyToYou » Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:18 pm

I suspect (although I don't KNOW...) that mods and admins have a larger box capacity, and thus when you stopped being staff, suddenly you had more than the normal person's box can hold. I don't know if it will delete stuff or not, but... I had to do the "cleaning out" when I got off staff, cause my box was at almost 200%. :o
Now that I am back on staff, I have plenty of room...so I guess anyone who wants to PM me can, I have room for it now. :wink:
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Post by ChaseThisLight » Tue Aug 05, 2008 2:41 am

*is going to pm NTY 100 times now*

haha jk. But do you remember when pms got screwed up and everyone had a message that they had like 100 pms? /random
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Post by NobodyToYou » Tue Aug 05, 2008 1:58 pm

I remember! I was pretty new, and it scared me. I thought I must have done a LOT of things wrong or upset someone. But then there was nothing there!
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