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jttheclockman

jttheclockman

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I am not all that computer savy so I will ask this stupid question. Someone posted awhile back how you can save your private messages somewhere and free up this site. I have looked through my messages and cleared as many as I can but there are many I want to save for future use. Both good and bad ones:smile: I see this thing at the bottom of the page and it says move to another folder and then there are 3 options with letters. What do they mean and how do you save the messages.??? Thanks. My file has overruneth again.
 
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I havn't tried this yet, because I run Mac on my primary machine, but there is an offline reader too...

http://vcldeveloper.com/downloads/vBulletin_PM_Reader.zip

To use this, you need to save your PMs as XML.

A little more information on the 3 choices:
XML - A very verbose format with "code like" tags around each part
CSV - comma separated file good to pull into excel
Text - Raw text good for wordpad, etc.
 
Pm's

How timely. I erased all of my "Sent" messages today.
I know that if I looked around I could have found the answer to this question. But like many it wasn't the right time, I didn't have the time and/or I had no idea where to start.
Thank you!
I saved all my incomings to a file minutes ago and cleared the storage.

Lee
 
maxwell_smart007 said:
Look at the bottom of the PM screen for the following:

Download all Private Messages as:
XML | CSV | Text

I save mine as text...
Click to expand...


Andrew; I did some additional research and found an XML solution for the download.

Download your messages as XML and save the file to your computer.

Click on this link to download a ZIP file containing two XSL (XML style Sheets):
http://www.vbforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=46079&d=1142424833

Unzip the two files in the archive.

Open the file containing your downloaded Private Messages in a text editor.


You will see this line at the top of the file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>


After that line, Insert this line. Modify the "file" to point to the location of the downloaded XSL files. Use "vb-private-messages-ie.xsl" for Internet Explorer. Use "vb-private-messages-std.xsl" for Firefox and other browsers.
<?xml-stylesheet href="file:///D:/MyFiles/Pens/vb-private-messages-std.xsl" type="text/xml"?>

Save and Close the Private Message File

In your web browser, use "Open", "File" to open the Private message file.

This is a bit of work, but produces a nicely formatted and collapsible screen display.
 
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