Our community has several thousand private messages that have been sent between users. Is there a way to completely remove private messages with more than 100 replies from the database (without recovery)?

Well, I think that this will do what you asked. It will delete any private messages that were not created by a system user or discobot. It will still delete any other private messages, including those from admins. It’s not tested. I’m not saying that it’s a good idea. I won’t promise that it won’t …

You can remove all message at once. rake destroy:private_messages Reference: [image] Administrative Bulk Operations Self-Hosting Below you will find a collection of bulk operations that can be initiated from the command line. You will need SSH access, so if…

Nice work, @IAmGav ! I swear i looked there and didn’t see.

[image] pfaffman: It’s not tested. I’m not saying that it’s a good idea. I won’t promise that it won’t do something bad. Thanks Jay, Running batch delete query directly on the database is so Scary :sweat_smile:

I took a brief look at how this function works. As it turns out, after running it, all private messages will be deleted. def destroy_private_messages Topic.where(archetype: "private_message").find_each do |pm| @io.puts "Destroying #{pm.slug} pm" first_post = pm.ordered_posts.first…

Revisiting this old topic, since none of the answers are 100% correct. [image] nildarar: completely remove private messages with more than 100 replies from the database (without recovery)? The rake task rake destroy:private_messages does not hard delete all private messages, it soft deletes …

Comment supprimer des milliers de messages personnels ?

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IAmGav (Gavin Perch) Septembre 2, 2020, 5:28 3

Vous pouvez supprimer tous les messages d’un coup.

rake destroy:private_messages

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