ItsJustMe Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Is there a simple way to mass delete/purge accounts that haven't been activated? Thank you for your time and assistance. supernal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opentype Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 That should be automatic if you use this: ItsJustMe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItsJustMe Posted April 15, 2020 Author Share Posted April 15, 2020 Thank you! I knew it was something simple I was missing. Will enabling that function now delete all older accounts? Or will it only work for new registrations that aren't validated within the time limit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opentype Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 Should work for old accounts too. supernal and ItsJustMe 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaBeach_Guy Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 Will this also work to purge the entire membership and start from scratch? Believe it or not, this is something that I need to do. I am being given a large message board's database, but only if all user accounts are first purged. All posts and history can remain, but the members have to re-join when I get the new location squared away. I'm looking for an easy way to do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Hutto Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 On 4/15/2020 at 1:34 PM, opentype said: That should be automatic if you use this: @opentype Sorry to be so dense, but can you tell me where to find this switch? I've searched but can't find it on my ACP... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fosters Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 15 minutes ago, Scotty Hutto said: @opentype Sorry to be so dense, but can you tell me where to find this switch? I've searched but can't find it on my ACP... On the ACP => System => Login page under the "Registration" tab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scotty Hutto Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 (edited) Thanks! Found it with your help! Edited April 19, 2020 by Scotty Hutto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SC36DC Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 I also need to do this, but I can not find the setting pictured anywhere. I looked in System>Login & Registration>Registration ... and what is pictured above, is not showing at all. Maybe mine is different. I have my 'Validation method for new accounts' set to 'Administrator validation'. So when I go to Members>Members and click on the 'Validating' tab, I have 7 pages of accounts I would like to delete. I do not see a way to bulk select and bulk delete all in here. The problem with deleting them one by one is, once I delete the first one, it changes the selected tab back to 'All'. I accidentally deleted a member because I thought it was still in the 'Validating' tab. Any help with this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opentype Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 6 minutes ago, SC36DC said: I looked in System>Login & Registration>Registration ... and what is pictured above, is not showing at all. It’s on that page. But only if “email validation” is active as validation method. SC36DC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SC36DC Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 Just now, opentype said: It’s on that page. But only if “email validation” is active as validation method. Thank you for clearing that up. I guess I have to delete them one by one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opentype Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 34 minutes ago, SC36DC said: Thank you for clearing that up. I guess I have to delete them one by one. That doesn’t follow from what I said though. What kind of validation have you set at the moment? If you use email validation, that setting should appear and allow automatic deletion of unvalidated accounts. If you don’t use email validation currently, you can turn it on temporarily until the unvalidated accounts are deleted. SC36DC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 If you are not using email validation why do you have accounts pending validation that you want to delete? Those should, in theory, be accounts pending admin validation and you should go through them to either validate or deny the registration. SC36DC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SC36DC Posted April 20, 2020 Share Posted April 20, 2020 4 hours ago, bfarber said: If you are not using email validation why do you have accounts pending validation that you want to delete? Those should, in theory, be accounts pending admin validation and you should go through them to either validate or deny the registration. At one point I did have email validation set up, so these accounts must be from that time. I currently have it set to Administration Validation. 8 hours ago, opentype said: If you don’t use email validation currently, you can turn it on temporarily until the unvalidated accounts are deleted. This is a great idea. Thank you so much. I will try this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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