Feature request: Export Private Messages

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Other forums I have been on have an option to export private messages however WP does not and my inbox is getting rather full. Any body else want this?

Android

What does exportation involve?

Tim

Producing an HTML / XML / TXT file that you can save.

Android

I'd be interested in this.

So far the only substitute is properly Saving them, which pulls them out of the Inbox and into a special folder.

That only works until that folder gets close to full. It also still relies on leaving them on the server, so you don't have a local copy. For a while I was printing them to PDF files, but even that isn't the cleanest way to do it.

That would be very, very nice.

Honestly, there are so many times I can hit copy and paste before I want to scream.

Yeah, I know what you mean. Still, that folder I reserve for special ones, like a love proposal or the first PM from someone special that I ever had. 600 I believe is the limit.

I'd just delete them, and you can always just copy paste them into word pad if theres one you want to save..

Yeah, but if you want to save all of them, and you've got an ever growing amount that's all ready at the 100% limit, it takes a very long time to do such.

I saved off 500 PMs this week.

The technique I used was to "Save Web Page (complete)", every time into the same default filename. I simultaneously had a script that waited for a couple of seconds, then extracted the post number from the saved file and renamed the file according to that. It was a tedious, but utterly mindless exercise from that point on. I suppose about 10 seconds net per PM. About 2 hours, overall, for the 500.

Admitedly, it's a big advantage to be using Linux, as the script wasn't all that complex. In fact, it was a one-liner:

You could use the same script from Windows, if you installed Cygwin.