I'm needing to turn off archiving.  This is supposedly an option and I have seen an image of the page with the option to turn off.

But here is my archive page:

No where to turn off.  I am using the cloud service and have a suspicion they may be forcing this, but I can't find any where on the web or in admin mentioning this.

Am I missing something obvious?

Edited September 19, 20204 yr by clearvision

Hmm, toggle seems to be there for me (Also cloud user, also on : 4.5.2)

Edited September 20, 20204 yr by InfinityRazz

I'm on 4.5.2.

Interestingly when I looked to see if somehow the html was messed up I found this:

<li id="form_header_archive_settings_cloud">

Seems to imply some sort of different settings for the cloud at least in 4.5.2.

Turns out this is a duplicate of below.  When I searched for "archive"  it did not find that one as he used word "archived" throughout... sigh.

No answer yet in that one either.

 

So this is sort of bad if new "feature" as all our forums including reference forums on books and wines are now archived and older posts are no longer searchable.  This appears to be some sort of new automatic setting as we would have never archived (no search) these forums.

Edited September 19, 20204 yr by clearvision

Support confirmed forced archival is a new "feature" for cloud hosted sites with no options on what areas to archive.  Apparently this is undocumented and set to 3 years (1to5 is range).  Claim it is being looked at.  Not having advance notice of this change is in pretty poor form.

For sites with reference type forums (food, wine, books, travel, technical advice) this is pretty fatal as content over 5 years is no longer searched, and pretty useless.  We have low density forums with over 10 years of history and the content there is not time sensitive.

3 hours ago, clearvision said:

Support confirmed forced archival is a new "feature" for cloud hosted sites with no options on what areas to archive.  Apparently this is undocumented and set to 3 years (1to5 is range).  Claim it is being looked at.  Not having advance notice of this change is in pretty poor form.

For sites with reference type forums (food, wine, books, travel, technical advice) this is pretty fatal as content over 5 years is no longer searched, and pretty useless.  We have low density forums with over 10 years of history and the content there is not time sensitive.

@peter gariepy you may interested in this post.

We are fixing the issue with how this is implemented for Cloud sites in our next release.

On 9/20/2020 at 10:34 AM, clearvision said:

Support confirmed forced archival is a new "feature" for cloud hosted sites with no options on what areas to archive.  Apparently this is undocumented and set to 3 years (1to5 is range).  Claim it is being looked at.  Not having advance notice of this change is in pretty poor form.

For sites with reference type forums (food, wine, books, travel, technical advice) this is pretty fatal as content over 5 years is no longer searched, and pretty useless.  We have low density forums with over 10 years of history and the content there is not time sensitive.

Thanks

I've just noticed that this has been forced onto our forum as well and having a large number of older reference posts makes the software totally unsuitable for our use.

@Charles - Please confirm that I will be able to turn archiving off completely and when this will be implemented. Sorry, but this is a deal breaker for us 😞

Yes, the archiving system changes Charles mentioned will be included in 4.5.4.