Re: Scheduled: Delete Topics
Reply #2 –
I don't believe there is a scheduled maintenance task like that. There is a manual maintenance task to remove old posts, old being those that have not been active in X days. Anyway I don't think it would be that difficult a task to have added as one should be able to leverage that existing manual task somewhat.
I saw that manual task, and at first I thought it was what I was looking for. So close...
In some ways it would be easier to create the forum as you like and dump the sql as a backup .. then using a cron task that runs every 2 days simply restore that dump as the new database.
HA! Just dump the db and simply restore the backup.... I love it. (Seriously, what could go wrong?)
About 20 years ago I quipped to a friend of mine as we were alpha testing a program that had descended into the twilight zone - "Never give a C+ programmer fissionable material - they know no fear..." :-)
I'm a retired hardware engineer, let me tell you about the time I stunk up the V&V lab with loud smoke and smelly fire, and set the development program back 6 months... ("It wasn't supposed to do that", he said. "The spec sheet said it could handle that", he said..) Yea, well, it didn't this time.
I'll give it some thought, Spuds... (indeed I will, my signature not withstanding), but I tend to think of sql back-ups and restores as recovery activities, not "maintenance".
Meanwhile, if someone wants to add that as a scheduled task to a future release, I'll return the db restore activity to recovery, in case the task goes awry..
Thanks!