Hi

I am currently trying to delete the content of my forum but as I need to keep some of the posts I would like to know which is the quickest way of doing this please?

I have tried deleting the individual forums in the hope that it would remove all the posts in that forum but it just times out. I have around 150,000 posts that need removing so any help would be much appreciated

Are the posts you want to keep in a certain forum or are they scattered about?

I would suggest that you open the forum and select a page and delete those posts; it would take a while but you could check the posts easily and see which ones you want to keep. You could move those posts you want to keep into a special forum.

If you know you won't need posts from a specific forum, you could do some DB editing; make sure you backup first.

Once you have the posts you need backed up, and you want to delete everything, just delete the database in cPanel or phpMyAdmin.

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Thanks for your advice but my host has kindly offered to move the posts for me as it was such a huge job and the database kept timing out. They have managed to remove posts from all but three forums so far and they have done it a lot quicker than I could have done

My guesses are they used SSH to make the database queries. You should too. Once you go SSH, you can't go back!