Delete Mass Members

Hi,

I am looking for someone from the community to help in deleting spam members. I want to delete all members that are older than 60 days. I can provide all login and FTP info.

I am willing to compensate you for this task!

There is no need to get someone else to do this .

In your dashboard click on settings/advancedsettings/pruning and you can choose to delete messages files or profiles for any time duration you choose.

Happy thoughts

I think the profile pruning is based on if they have not logged on for xx number of days.  It removes inactive profiles not profiles of a certain age.

If you want to remove profiles that were created before a certain date, the easiest way is to run a database query.  I would of course back up the database first just in case the query goes wrong.

Mingle,

Thanks for the advice. I did that however it does not seem to have deleted any members..? 

As I said, that will delete ANY member that has not logged in a certain time frame.  It will be handled by the cron job so you need to wait or run the cron job by hand; and remember, it will prune all that have not logged on.  So if you have a member you want to keep, and say you set it to 60 days and they are at 59 days then tomorrow they will be gone as well.

If you want to delete members from a certain date, then use a sql query instead where you can set the date.

Geek girl, thank you. However I looked into my cPanel and I do not see any Cron jobs scheduled to run... Can you suggest how to set up the cron jobs?

Do you know what cron jobs I need to set up to make the old members get deleted? I have looked into my cPanel and there are no cron jobs set up at all...

Go into dolphins admin panel/admintools/ scroll down the page find mail sending - click here to send test email click to send the mail .

below that you will find cronjobs  this will tell you what if any cron jobs are running this will assist you in tracking down the cron jobs in cpanel.

are these members you wish to delete spammers ? If so it will take a bit of time but in the admin panel go to members in the top part titled overview on the right hand side click search in the text box open a new window in browser open admin panel go to members look at the email addresses of those you want to delete copy say @hotmail.com or just copy the user name open other browser window paste the name in the text search area

and hit return then just select all and delete ..

If only we were all endowed with ggs experience & skill sets .

I am not able to ascertain why when something is not broken they fix it in 7.09 you pruned data base in terms of number of days not days from last logged in or is there now some more settings in the membership for allowing memberships to expire based on just days ? 

Happy thoughts

Not a "new" setting, but if you have the memberships set up you can use the "promotional" side of it.

It of course can be set a day or year(s) to delete promotional memberships, those that are serious would upgrade their memberships and of course you have control in making them permanent members via editing there memberships.

Go into dolphins admin panel/admintools/ scroll down the page find mail sending - click here to send test email click to send the mail . 

below that you will find cronjobs  this will tell you what if any cron jobs are running this will assist you in tracking down the cron jobs in cpanel.

Just so people will know.

The pruning has a bug. The cron job that deletes inactive members will stop and fail to continue if it encounters any accounts to be deleted that have blogs. This is due to a bug in the blog module that requires member be logged in to delete a blog. Naturally, cron does not log in.

I noticed this bug when trying to find a problem with my delete unconfirmed members mod. As it turns out, there is nothing wrong with my mod, it is affected by this bug in the blogs module.

Also, you should not purge members using a database query. That will not delete all the the stuff the member may have created.

My website has basically 99% fake spam members.. So I am trying to do is delete all members that are older than 60 days. (I stopped the spam members 60 days ago) some of these members have left spam blogs or comments. How can I delete all of these members older than 60 days?

There are no cron jobs set up in my cpanel, and I do not know what cron jobs are supposed to be set up.

Sorry I didnt realize you useing 709

Go into dolphins admin panel/TOOLS/HOST tools/ scroll down the page find mail sending - click here to send test email click to send the mail .

below that you will find cronjobs  this will tell you what if any cron jobs are running this will assist you in tracking down the cron jobs in cpanel.