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Deleting all comments

slandis Member
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Could someone please let me know the exact details of how to properly batch-delete ALL comments in a gallery? I'm helping to maintain a gallery thats been hit with a ton of spam - and I just want to delete the whole file. I'm a little unsure of phpmyadmin, although I do have access to it through the cPanel. I would hate to hurt anything on this website, so would appreciate a walkthrough of how to properly and safely dump the previous comments database and then get the site running again (without comments at all this time. LOL)

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  • sbillard Member
    If you have a bit of daring, you should install the development build nightly. In it there is a new "bulk action" feature that will let you check the comments you want deleted and then delete them all.

    If you want to do this via cPanel I presume you will have there the PHPMyAdmin app which will let you browse your comments table, ckeck the ones you want to delete and bulk delete them.
  • slandis Member
    Thank you! That was much easier than expected. I simply "emptied" the file in phpmyadmin - not quite as scary as I had anticipated. ;)

    Thank you for your help and quick reply!!
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