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[pjw]

My mailbox is full so there are a number of messages in the queue that I cant read until I delete some older messages.

Now I like to keep old messages for reference. I dont want to just delete them, or go through each and every one to see which to keep or delete. Is there a way of downloading all my PMs? Eg tick the boxes and click some download button?

[tofro]

Well, sort of.

You can (in the PM overview window at the very bottom left) press "Export as CSV". This will create a comma-separated file that you could, for example, import into MS Excel or the like.

It will, apparently, only export one single page of messages (so, needs to be done a number of times to get everything), and you'll have to fiddle around with your spreadsheet import function a bit to get all the fields in proper order, but most of the data seems to be there.

[pjw]

Seems us QL Forumers are not very good at reading the clues! (except you, of course )

The available method is not ideal, of course. It would need quite some tidying to become a useful reference. I'll see if the is a quick and easy way to parse the data and output it in a more usable form..

Thanks a lot for your help!

[tofro]

Seems us QL Forumers are not very good at reading the clues! (except you, of course )

Well, no. I actually never bothered to look at this button until you asked - Because it says "Export this view..." and this view only contains the message topics, which I found a bit useless. But, apparently, it seems to export complete messages (albeit only one screen at a time).