The discussion revolves around an issue with bulk actions in Discourse, where selecting all topics in a subcategory with over 800 topics only selects 30. DGForum asks how to select all topics at once, and whether personal messages can be disabled during the bulk change, and if thread dates will remain unchanged. EricGT explains that scrolling to the bottom of the list before opening the Bulk Actions dialog resolves the issue. DGForum confirms it worked. Canapin suggests using SSH commands for bulk operations, providing a link to relevant documentation. DGForum appreciates the help.
E.g. One of our subcategories has 800+ topics.
When I ‘select all’ from the cog-wheel it only picks up 30 of those 800+.
And can the Personal Messages be stopped for this bulk change?
And will the Thread dates stay the same please?
Thank-you.
P.S.
The idea will be to tranfer from Subcategories to new Main Categories - have assumed that that would be straight forward.
Short answer: When you see the list of 30 items scroll down to the bottom of list before bringing up Bulk Actions dialog.
For a similar situation with details:
Thank-you, it worked.
Hi 
If you have SSH access to your server, there are commands for that:
Thanks mate, that’s handy 
Appreciated.
