I have been pulling in content from RSS feeds but now I have stopped. I would now like to delete all that content, but from the admin/users page I can’t click a button to delete a user and all their posts/topics.
Is there a way I can override this and bulk delete users and their content? Some of my feeds have 1K+ topics…
Look at delete all posts max and delete user max post age settings in your administration. Change for a higher value, and then you’ll be able to remove all the posts from any user.
Getting there, thank you.
But on a user’s page, if I delete a user, will it also delete all their posts? I can’t see an option to delete posts.
Think this topic covers it:
When you raise the two settings I wrote about, you’ll be able to remove all the user’s messages prior removing the user itself (a user can’t be deleted if it has messages).
Whenever I try and delete posts (10 or 500), I keep getting this error message. Any thoughts?
So, at the moment, I can’t delete posts or users.
Is there a way to override:
“There was an error deleting that user. Make sure all posts are deleted before trying to delete the user.”
Check /logs to see what the problem was, and post a redacted version of the env and backtrace here. Alternately, if you check and some but not all posts were deleted, just keep hitting the button until it finishes.
Sorry, laymans terms please?
Visit forum.yourcommunity.com/logs and see if there’s an error entry from when the post deletion failed.
No error messages. It just stops and says "There was a problem deleting the posts’'.
I have a lot of users/posts I need to delete, so there has to be a better way?
I was hoping someone would have replied to:
I managed to get some success by flushing Redis.
You should expect performance problems if you delete users with massive numbers of posts and topics, that’s a rare event – and should be avoided in favor of anonymization whenever possible.
I was having a problem deleting just 10 posts.
That shouldn’t be happening for sure!
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