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Auto Delete/Prune Board

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Texan78:
Hello, I thought I had saw something like this the other day but I can't find it so I could be wrong.

What I am looking for is something that will auto delete/prune a board after so many days. I know you can do this in the Admin panel but it is only for topics which hasn't been posted in for X number of days. I need it to delete all topics regardless in X number of days I set. Preferably by a set day.

Reason for this is a I have a testing board where users can testing things like signatures, avatars, forum functions etc. The posts are deleted every Sunday at midnight (which not actually at midnight since it has to be done manually). So looking for something that I can set up which will auto delete those posts after a set time. Any suggestions or could this be made?

-Thanks

Arantor:
Search for Auto Purge Old Topics.

Texan78:
Looks promising, but the one thing I noticed that I can already do now in the admin panel is it says "check for topics that have not been replied to in a while". That means if a user posts something in a topic a day before it is deleted it will have to wait another 7 days based on how I have it scheduled. I am looking for something that will delete it regardless every 7 days even if it has new posts or not. So it would leave some behind if it has new posts. Am I understanding that correctly?

-Thanks

Arantor:
The idea behind the mod was to prune old topics, so yes, it won't delete a topic if it's had a recent post.

But why would you want to delete a topic even if it was only posted in the day before?

Texan78:

--- Quote from: Arantor on May 24, 2012, 02:25:23 PM ---But why would you want to delete a topic even if it was only posted in the day before?

--- End quote ---

As I stated in my first post I have this one board that is called "Testing Zone" the description is "Use this category to test banners, signatures, avatar's or features of this forum. Don't post anything that you don't want to lose. This board will be cleared once a week Sunday at midnight central time. " So there is nothing in there of relevance to the forum as it's just used as a testing board. So I wanted to clear it once a week and currently I have to do it manually and doesn't make sense to delete some and not others since they are all deleted once a week. Member can re-post anything but they know it will be deleted once a week. Just a way to get the forum organized and not cluttered with uses testing post. Does that make sense?

-Thanks

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