# Mass archiving moderator private messages doesn't archive them
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/mass-archiving-moderator-private-messages-doesnt-archive-them/184368
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [March 24, 2021, 11:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mass-archiving-moderator-private-messages-doesnt-archive-them/184368 "2021-03-24T23:16:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Heather\_Dudley](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heather_Dudley)
#### Post date: [March 24, 2021, 11:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mass-archiving-moderator-private-messages-doesnt-archive-them/184368/1 "2021-03-24T23:16:29Z")
The recent change to how the moderator inbox works is great; being able to bulk act on messages is fantastic! When you hit the archive button within a post, it sends it to the moderator archive box.
However, you can no longer mass-archive these messages to remove them from the inbox. Clicking archive on the bulk menu does… nothing as far as I can tell.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2021, 1:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mass-archiving-moderator-private-messages-doesnt-archive-them/184368/2 "2021-03-25T01:49:46Z")
I think @techAPJ fixed this, we will get the fix deployed shortly
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2021, 5:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mass-archiving-moderator-private-messages-doesnt-archive-them/184368/4 "2021-03-25T05:34:58Z")
This issue was fixed via:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/dc73aadbff84c57ba02eec621533d421f9d856b6](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/dc73aadbff84c57ba02eec621533d421f9d856b6)
@Heather_Dudley I just deployed the above fix on your instance.
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### Author:  [@Heather\_Dudley](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Heather_Dudley)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2021, 5:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mass-archiving-moderator-private-messages-doesnt-archive-them/184368/5 "2021-03-25T17:03:52Z")
It’s working now. 🙂 Thank you for the fix and the update on our instance!
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2021, 5:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/mass-archiving-moderator-private-messages-doesnt-archive-them/184368/6 "2021-03-25T17:31:57Z")