Force prune of large forum

eoinoc333 · 2010-02-10 15:36

Hi,

for about 150 days my forum has been up on an non-promoted site, and has about 45,000 threads of spam

I have installed the official anti-spam extension, but I still need to completely delete the main forum.

When I try to prune message I get the message "Insane query, aborted". Is there a way to get around this, to complete empty the forum?

The assumption here is that I don't want to bother re-creating the database and setting up the site all over again.

Eoin

KeyDog · 2010-02-10 17:34

which version of pun antispam are/were you running? current one is 1.3.4 I believe

if you have access to phpmyadmin you can probably delete the topics/posts there fastest

maybe add the forum to stopforumspam as a honeypot....

eoinoc333 · 2010-02-11 10:33

Ok, I'll do that with the database.

To be clear, I only installed the anti-spam this week. The forum was completely open until then. I was running 1.3.2 before upgrading this week.

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