Techno-idiot and PMs

[The Judge]

I had a message saying my PM box was filling up and I should consider archiving or deleting items. Deleting I can manage, but I can't work out how to archive anything.

Is it simple? Can I get access to the PMs again once archived? Will I need a library card or an obscure password and handshake?

Any help gratefully received - but do remember you are talking to a techno-illiterate, so words of one syllable, please.

[pyan]

At the bottom left of your PM page, theres a heading:

Download all Private Messages as:
XML | CSV | Text

I save all mine as Text, so I click on, surprisingly, Text

This opens a standard downloading box, with the usual Open - Save - Cancel - Help options.

Click on Save - this opens a Save as... box.

Choose somewhere on your computer to save it, pick a file name and click Save.

Voila!

Now you can go back to your PM page and delete all the folder contents, making room for more PMs...

[The Judge]

Ah-ha! I'd seen that heading, but assumed it involved sending text messages somewhere... (did I mention I don't do technology?)

Anyway, many thanks Pyan. I shall screw my courage to the sticking place and attempt this esoteric procedure. If you hear the sound of exploding lap tops from the Forest, that will be me.


Thanks for the dancing people too! I feel like trying to capture them so as to use them as screen savers to cheer me up on a bad day.

[Parson]

Your Honor,

I think I qualify as a techno-idiot as well. I read PMs and thought it was MPs, so I clicked here looking for things about Members of parliament.

[The Judge]

We shall have to start a club of TIs, Parson, where we produce minutes of meetings in copperplate handwriting written with quill pens on vellum, and the greatest advance in technology is the snuffer for the candles. (Oh, and the electric kettle for the tea and coffee and perhaps a toasted sandwich maker or two...)

[chrispenycate]

Well, I don't qualify as a techno-idiot (no, really); I'm a decent technician, and have soldered together logic gates out of transistors, understand serial transmission protocols, et cetera.

But the logic of complex programs still eludes me; I think you have to have been born in the eighties at the earliest to really feel it. It's the lack of the punch cards that gets me, I think; and things that I learnt by rote, like "edlin" which are now one with Fortran and basic.

And that candle snuffer now probably incorporates a microprcessor, a photodetector and a snore amplitude meter, so you can forget to blow the lights out whan you've been reading in bed…

[The Judge]

Well, we might stretch a point and allow you to be an associate member, Chris - an Advanced-Techno-Idiot. We need someone who knows how to fix the toaster.