# Archiving vs Closing & Bulk Topic Update

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/archiving-vs-closing-bulk-topic-update/107818>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [29 בינואר,‏ 2019,‏ 11:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/archiving-vs-closing-bulk-topic-update/107818 "2019-01-29T11:52:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![JoshDevInit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3ab097/32.png) [@JoshDevInit](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JoshDevInit)\
**Post date:** [29 בינואר,‏ 2019,‏ 11:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/archiving-vs-closing-bulk-topic-update/107818/1 "2019-01-29T11:52:48Z")

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Hi there,

Over time our forum has become rather cluttered with old topics so we are undergoing a clean up task. I have a couple of quick questions (apologies if these have been answered elsewhere!)…

1. What is the difference between Archived and Closed topics? I have seen elsewhere that an archived topic cannot be altered at all whereas a closed topic simply cannot be replied to. We were hoping that closed topics would still be visible within their category whereas archived topics would only be available to view if they are searched for. Is this possible? It seems at the moment that archived topics can still be viewed within their category?

2. Is there a way to bulk-update a number of topics, perhaps where there hasn’t been an update in X amount of time? This clean-up is long overdue so manually archiving each individual topic will not be an insignificant task!

Thanks in advance.

Josh

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