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  • CorbinH
    Senior Member
    • May 2009
    • 232
    • 4.0.0

    Housekeeping question

    I am currently permanently deleting all topics start by "Guest" (default name of deleted members) starting win the Introduce yourself channel on our forum.
    What would be the effect of checking the "Delete other posts and topics started by the affected users" box?
    Also is there an easy way to bulk delete topics started by "Guest"?
  • Mark.B
    vBulletin Support
    • Feb 2004
    • 24286
    • 6.0.X

    #2
    As far as I know doing that will delete all posts with no userid (guests).
    However, if there are large numbers of these, the tool may timeout while trying to run.

    As always, back up your database before attempting this.
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    • CorbinH
      CorbinH commented
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      If I understand you correctly, ALL deleted members become the "same" Guest. Therefore if there were 200 deleted members deleting all topics started by guest would delete topics started by all the 200 deleted members?
  • CorbinH
    Senior Member
    • May 2009
    • 232
    • 4.0.0

    #3
    Originally posted by CorbinH
    I am currently permanently deleting all topics start by "Guest" (default name of deleted members) starting win the Introduce yourself channel on our forum.
    What would be the effect of checking the "Delete other posts and topics started by the affected users" box?
    Also is there an easy way to bulk delete topics started by "Guest"?
    Do you have an answer for my second question?

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    • Wayne Luke
      vBulletin Technical Support Lead
      • Aug 2000
      • 73981

      #4
      You can bulk prune by username or usergroup in the AdminCP under Node Tools -> Prune.
      Translations provided by Google.

      Wayne Luke
      The Rabid Badger - a vBulletin Cloud demonstration site.
      vBulletin 5 API

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      • CorbinH
        CorbinH commented
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        Thank you. Does give you the option to view the results before deletion?
        Last edited by CorbinH; Tue 4 Sep '18, 11:44am.

      • Wayne Luke
        Wayne Luke commented
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        It provides a list. You can view each node in the front end.
    • CorbinH
      Senior Member
      • May 2009
      • 232
      • 4.0.0

      #5
      I was unable to delete Topics started by "Guest" using the prune tool. I have spent the last couple of days manually deleting these topics. I have so far deleted ~13,000 and I am wondering are there any told I need to run in the AdminCP to clean up after such a big delete. I'm not finished yet.

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      • Wayne Luke
        vBulletin Technical Support Lead
        • Aug 2000
        • 73981

        #6
        If you are using INNODB tables and have attachments stored in the file system, there is nothing you need to do to update the database.
        Translations provided by Google.

        Wayne Luke
        The Rabid Badger - a vBulletin Cloud demonstration site.
        vBulletin 5 API

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        • CorbinH
          Senior Member
          • May 2009
          • 232
          • 4.0.0

          #7
          Originally posted by Mark.B
          As far as I know doing that will delete all posts with no userid (guests).
          However, if there are large numbers of these, the tool may timeout while trying to run.

          As always, back up your database before attempting this.
          What do you consider large numbers?

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          • CorbinH
            Senior Member
            • May 2009
            • 232
            • 4.0.0

            #8
            A big thank you to the team for including search by Guest.

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            • Wayne Luke
              vBulletin Technical Support Lead
              • Aug 2000
              • 73981

              #9
              We added the ability to search by guest and the ability to search by secondary usergroups (may be in 5.5.0, I forget).
              Translations provided by Google.

              Wayne Luke
              The Rabid Badger - a vBulletin Cloud demonstration site.
              vBulletin 5 API

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