Sent PM's through the forums are disappearing without me deleting them
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 by Philly0381 | Discussion: Forum Issues
I've seen this in the last week or so where PM's I've sent in response to ones I have received just disappear without me deleting them. Is this a known issue/problem with the PM system or do I have a problem on my side? 
I am using IE 8 on Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.
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Reply #2 Tuesday, February 1, 2011 2:04 PM
Philly, just out of pure curiosity; How many PM's/replies do you have in total?
There is a limit (which bugs the HELL out of Jafo) to how many PM's we can keep stored.
Reply #3 Tuesday, February 1, 2011 2:16 PM
Reply #5 Tuesday, February 1, 2011 3:51 PM
Sure the trolls haven't gotten in there. It is TTD you know. 
Reply #7 Tuesday, February 1, 2011 6:02 PM
Two ways it can 'screw up'.....
Using IE9 strips the content....the PM will be blank [but it sends].
If the recipient deletes it without reading it...your copy goes too.
I use the PM system 'a bit' .... so if I were able to keep all of them as a record of past dramas/issues I'd need a limit [so far] of about 2000.
My limit was extended but it's still not enough....
Reply #9 Tuesday, February 1, 2011 6:50 PM
haha... i was just thinking....
wouldn't it be funny... if I was a Mod.. 
Reply #10 Tuesday, February 1, 2011 6:55 PM
wouldn't it be funny... if I was a Mod..
And dangerous......
Reply #11 Tuesday, February 1, 2011 11:42 PM
nothing'd get past 'picky bastard' Gordon.... 
Reply #12 Tuesday, February 1, 2011 11:52 PM
There's not a lot of 'fun' in being a Mod.
It never ceases to amaze me how often the offer to be one is accepted.
Heck....I might even use that horrid phrase 'blind sheep'....
Lambs-to-the-slaughter....
BTW....'abattoir' is used commonly in English speaking countries cos 'slaughter house' just didn't sound as 'nice'.
Snow's right....in an ideal world we'd have limitless PM function/limits but the original theory was the PM system was 'social'. I/we just hijacked it a bit for admin dooties as well....since email is hit-miss at best.
Reply #15 Wednesday, February 2, 2011 1:27 AM
try an evening.. always works fer' me 
anyway, was joking of course, i wouldn't take a mod job if I was paid for it....
yes i would 
Reply #16 Wednesday, February 2, 2011 5:42 AM
I'm glad I'm not that high up in the hierarchy. I like it down here. 
Reply #17 Wednesday, February 2, 2011 9:03 AM
I had perhaps 30 PM's in my Inbox and another 20 in my Sent messages folder so I was nowhere near the limit of 100 PM's.
Also if it makes a difference I was and still am using IE7 on XP Pro SP3.
This was a one time isolated occurrence that happened about 2 to 3 months ago where about 15 of my sent items disappeared without me deleting them. Over the intervening time this hasn't reoccurred. My Inbox was totally unaffected.
The one point I noticed was that all of the deleted PM's had been sent to the same person although not *every* PM that I sent to this person had been deleted.
At the time it seemed to me like the person to whom I had sent these PM's had decided to clean up his Inbox and deleting my PM's from his Inbox also deleted them from my Sent Items folder. The nature of which PM's were deleted and which were not seemed to bear this out as well. The PM's not deleted tended to contain useful information regarding subtle aspects of GC2 whereas those PM's that were deleted were more of a chatty nature.
At the time I did not check back with this person to determine whether or not my assumption was correct or not. Also since this issue has not reoccurred (for me at least) in the last few months I assumed it was a one time occurrence and simply ignored it.
[edit] As far as the issue being related to messages I sent in reply to a previous message that did not seem to be case. While most of the messages that were deleted were in fact replies to previously received messages I also had messages where I was the originator of the message deleted as well as messages that were the result of multiple replies that were not deleted. As I said it seemed like it was dependent on useful content since in one case I had the RE:RE:RE reply deleted but not the RE:RE:RE:RE:RE reply of the same PM chain. [/edit]
Reply #18 Wednesday, February 2, 2011 9:10 AM
Mumblefratz, yes, I suspect it occurs if the recipient deletes a PM he has not opened/read. The 'retained copy' is also deleted from the DB.
Knowing my luck...T-Man will pop in at 3am, my time and get me to be a guinea pig and try it out.....
He's fun that way....
Reply #19 Wednesday, February 2, 2011 9:13 AM
Reply #20 Wednesday, February 2, 2011 2:58 PM
Ah....perhaps a similar but different incident....or rather....same result but different causes.....
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Reply #1 Tuesday, February 1, 2011 11:28 AM
Moved to forum issues.