How to save PMs on my HD ?

[Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini]

Seems I'm unable to find out how to save my Private maessages on my

HD. I would like to save them before clenaning the in and out boxes.

 

Any hint ? Have I to save them one at a time ?

 

Thanks.

[Brian]

Carlo,

 

Currently phpBB doesn't have a save pm's feature unfortunately. I copy the text of each myself and save them as a word doc. Long process, but the best option for backing up before cleaning the inbox, outbox, and sent box (good thing to do regularly)

The new version of phpBB3 (which will be released oneday ) has a new option of backing up pms, so we just have to wait for the final version so that I can upgrade the board. They don't have an estimated time of release yet though.

 

Brian

[Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini]

Thanks Brian. I'm currently cleaning the PMs in various Fora, so

I now know how to save my PMs here.

 

Best.

[John A Stuart]

Hi Carlo, This might help everyone who wants to do this . I save any page by using Acrobat. My toolbar has a button "save page in PDF" and sometimes I will save the page by 'select all' 'copy' 'paste' to word file. John

[Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini]

Thanks John. I'll follow your suggestion.

[pcfarrar]

If your using Internet explorer 7 just save the page to an MHT file. I use it all the time and it works great for saving forum discussions and PM's.

[John A Stuart]

Hi Peter, Does that not connect you to the internet everytime you access it? That is if you are online 24/7 like most providers are now. John

[Carlo Giuseppe Tacchini]

Hi Peter

tour suggestion is a good one too, but Acrobat Professional allow me to

make searches. Not the same with HTML-format pages.

Vista sucks.

I've my PC out of order again and I'm writing from work or from the laptop.

[pcfarrar]

Hi Peter, Does that not connect you to the internet everytime you access it? That is if you are online 24/7 like most providers are now. John

 

No it caches the webpage completely in the MHT file. I've built up quite a library of oshigata from webpages using it :lol:

 

Vista does have some very useful features, the main one being the search and indexing. Using search I can find a specific phrase in my library of information/emails/documents instantly. Extremely useful and the main reason why I wouldn't go back to XP.

[ububob]

Brian, is there a capability to backup PMs yet? An upgrade was mentioned some time ago.

[Jamie]

You could cut and paste to wordpad too.

[ububob]

Yes, one could but that wasn't the question posed.

[Brian]

I'll have to check what has been released now. However at the bottom of your messages page, you can export all of your pm's to 3 different formats. Granted they are not as convenient to work with, being Excel or XML based, but they will back up all of your pm's from that folder.

Remember to delete old pm's to free up space, and especially old sent ones. Also, you can backup old pm's to newly created folders, within a limit of 3 or 4 folders IIRC.

 

Brian