Spy Car Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 My Private Message Box is always 96% full (or more). I hate deleting PMs but I feel forced to in order to be "active". Does anyone download them to a folder? Are there any neat tricks for keeping them in a fashion you could review them as handily as in the in and out boxes? I need a bigger box!!! Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicole M Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 (edited) My Private Message Box is always 96% full (or more).Bill That's cuz you're so popular. Very few of us have this problem, bub. Are you saving your sent messages? I don't see much reason to save those, myself, and if I delete them, I have enough room left to save the received messages that I want. [ETA: I just realized that all families might not use the term "bub" the way we do. Here in the M household, it is, in fact, a term of endearment, which is how I meant it. Just so we're clear. :D] Edited January 2, 2009 by Nicole M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beansprouts Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 I delete my "Sent" items first. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted January 2, 2009 Author Share Posted January 2, 2009 My strategy is to save the last one where the "quoting" has preserved the whole exchanges if its been a multi-part discourse. Sometime that's Sent PMs and other times it's Incoming PMs. But the whole thing is making me nuts :D I want a bigger box. There I said it :tongue_smilie: Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicole M Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 I want a bigger box. There I said it :tongue_smilie: Bill Could you ask for special dispensation? I mean, you're the main man on these boards (or one of a few main men in a sea of marvelous women). Seems like you could make a case...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aubrey Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 I'm completely insane--I save everything. So once mine was full, I'd sweat bullets trying to decide which wonderful mssg to delete. Until I figured out the download function. You can make a folder on your pc & download everything from your pm box there, delete all, & start over. Yippeeeeee!!! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelle in MO Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 (edited) My Private Message Box is always 96% full (or more). I hate deleting PMs but I feel forced to in order to be "active". Does anyone download them to a folder? Are there any neat tricks for keeping them in a fashion you could review them as handily as in the in and out boxes? I need a bigger box!!! Bill In the not-so-famous words of my husband, "We've all got our burdens to bear." ;) Seriously, though, I don't have that problem since I'm not as interactive as you are! Chelle Edited January 2, 2009 by Chelle in MO Sent too soon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 I'm completely insane--I save everything. So once mine was full, I'd sweat bullets trying to decide which wonderful mssg to delete. Until I figured out the download function. You can make a folder on your pc & download everything from your pm box there, delete all, & start over. Yippeeeeee!!! :lol: Help me figure out the download! I have some great advice in my in box, I don't want to delete. Okay, now I'll go play around with it myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beansprouts Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Help me figure out the download! I have some great advice in my in box, I don't want to delete. Okay, now I'll go play around with it myself. You could also copy/paste your favorite messages to a word document. Who else is tempted to start flooding Spy Car's inbox? :Angel_anim: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plain jane Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 You could also copy/paste your favorite messages to a word document. Who else is tempted to start flooding Spy Car's inbox? :Angel_anim: I've been resisting the urge to ever since he first posted.:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Help me figure out the download! I have some great advice in my in box, I don't want to delete. Okay, now I'll go play around with it myself. I figured it out, it's pretty easy. Now I just have to remember they are stored on my computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tibbyl Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 What Do You Do With Your PM Box? I delete all PM's as soon as I read them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crissy Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 I save mine as text files. From your PM inbox, scroll to the bottom of the screen. There is the option to Download all Private Messages as: XML | CVS | Text I just click the Text link and save a file in My Documents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted January 2, 2009 Author Share Posted January 2, 2009 I save mine as text files. From your PM inbox, scroll to the bottom of the screen. There is the option to Download all Private Messages as: XML | CVS | Text I just click the Text link and save a file in My Documents. OK I used one of these options once (I forget which...but I'd guess "text") and it did save the files in a big unsearchable and mostly un-helpful archive that I'll never look at again. Me, I just love looking at all the nice notes people have sent my way (and even a few of the...uh, opportunities people have taken to "dialogue" when they've had differences whith things I've posted) so I like having the PMs at hand. Not deleting them. Not downloading them to some mass text file archive (tomb). Is XML any cooler? Bill (who's now 100% filled) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted January 2, 2009 Author Share Posted January 2, 2009 Seems like you could make a case...? Hey...what do you think I'm doing? :tongue_smilie: What do we want? Bigger boxes! When do we want 'em? Now! Bill (Berkeley Grad :D) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doran Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 I need a bigger box!!! I think your box is plenty big. ;) Here, I have a free coupon to a seminar on compulsive hoarding. Go on. You can have it. I'm all done with it. :lol: p.s. I save mine as text files, too. Sorry, since I already know that option really doesn't work for you I was trying a different tack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted January 2, 2009 Author Share Posted January 2, 2009 Here, I have a free coupon to a seminar on compulsive hoarding. Go on. You can have it. I'm all done with it. :lol: :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovedtodeath Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 I have been putting mine in a word document with the name of the sender or advice, whatever is more appropriate. Mine is always almost full too. I am sure Bill will want to keep mine.... nah, j/k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beansprouts Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 *Deep Breath* I just deleted 20 or so of the older pm's. I feel so liberated! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doran Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 *Deep Breath* I just deleted 20 or so of the older pm's. I feel so liberated! :lol: Sprouts went to that seminar with me. Notice, Bill, that I said it was a free coupon...not a free seminar. But, I know you want it. Just to add to your collection. I'll PM ya'! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicole M Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Sprouts went to that seminar with me. Notice, Bill, that I said it was a free coupon...not a free seminar. But, I know you want it. Just to add to your collection. I'll PM ya'! And tibbyl's leading the seminars. She's good, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich with Kids Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Okay, now I'll go play around with it myself. Um...don't we have a social group for that? No? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elegantlion Posted January 2, 2009 Share Posted January 2, 2009 Um...don't we have a social group for that? No? :lol::lol: Note to self: Never type while distracted, your words may have double meaning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted April 15, 2009 Author Share Posted April 15, 2009 I'm really dying with a 50 PM box limit. That is all :lol: Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peek a Boo Posted April 15, 2009 Share Posted April 15, 2009 Hey...what do you think I'm doing? :tongue_smilie: What do we want? Bigger boxes! When do we want 'em? Now! Bill (Berkeley Grad :D) Size Matters. I download all of them as text files. I even saved all the cool [and not so cool] comments from my rep way back when. I just use the "search all files" feature if i'm trying to ind something specific. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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