Delete Old Posts

How do I delete old posts? When I select Edit, Select All and than Delete,
the delete is gray and won't allow me to delete all the old post.

 

View>Current View>Hide read messages

 

Hiding the read messages is most likely what s/he wants to do, but that
is a different function than deleting the messages in a newsgroup's
folder view.

I haven't been able to create an experimental 'demonstration' to myself
of delete being grayed out to prevent its function so I don't know what
the OP is about.

Delete is to eliminate the message/s header [and body if downloaded]
from that folder/file's database, whereas mark as read keeps the header
in the db but changes its read vs unread flag.

 

Select range to delete by highlighting top one, then highlight (while
holding down SHIFT key) bottom one of range,(this highlights the whole range
of msgs to delete), go to EDIT and select DELETE

HTH

dfrog

 

I understand how to delete a range of news messages. I was trying to
experimentally demonstrate that it was /possible/ to get a configuration
which would have the delete function grayed out.

That's what the OP was about. The grayed out condtion for delete.

 

Try installing the "Q328389" update.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...39-2e4d-4908-b21f-c5cff9d58934&displaylang=en

Ben

 

Hello Ben,
Thanks for your support. My problem is solved.

Try installing the "Q328389" update.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=fabfd939-2e4d-4908-
b21f-c5cff9d58934&displaylang=en

Ben

 

select them, then press the Del key on your keyboard.

 

Sorry Mike, I wasn't aiming my response at you, rather the OP, and aiming at
"How do I delete old posts?" which is what I read as his/her question,
although he/she did make a statement about delete being greyed out. I
realise that I did tag mine onto yours. :-(
dfrog

 

Note that what ever you do is only for your machine. You can not delete the
messages from the server end and hope never to see them again. If you should
unsubscribe from a group, then return a few days later, you will get all of
those old deleted posts back again.

 

Thanks for all your help. My concern was the postings were taking up space
on my computer. It is now my understanding that the posting are kept on the
server and not my computer. Posting closed.

 

If you click this news link:

news://

.... you can read this frequently posted nnq tip:

Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: [TIP] Don't panic! Your mailbox is not about to explode!
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 21:07:26 +0000 (UTC)

 

Oops. I built that the wrong way. It should be:

 

One can only do that locally. You cant delete old post globally.