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      01-25-2020, 04:58 PM   #1
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Increasing Private Messages Quota

I am about to run out of my 220 private messages quota and I don't want to delete any of the prior ones as they contain valuable context and information from the past.

How does one get additional messages quota on this site?

I am happy to pay membership fee to do so. I've tried contacting the site admins through "Contact Us" several times with zero responses -- it should be uncommon for people to not respond someone stating "I'll pay you money for more message quota", yet here we are.

Any ideas?
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I am about to run out of my 220 private messages quota and I don't want to delete any of the prior ones as they contain valuable context and information from the past.

How does one get additional messages quota on this site?

I am happy to pay membership fee to do so. I've tried contacting the site admins through "Contact Us" several times with zero responses -- it should be uncommon for people to not respond someone stating "I'll pay you money for more message quota", yet here we are.

Any ideas?
Can you cut and past the important information/messages into another format/location so you can save them? The other thing is, if they are important do you want to rely on this forum to save them?
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Can you cut and past the important information/messages into another format/location so you can save them? The other thing is, if they are important do you want to rely on this forum to save them?
Thanks for the quick comments. I am not going to sit and copy/paste/thread-organize 200 messages, life's too short. If there was a facility to download them all in threads in bulk, I'd use that, but I don't believe there is such a facility, happy to be told otherwise. They've not important enough in the sense that I have what I need for myself offline and my life won't be severely impacted by their loss, but in the context of interacting and helping people on the forum, with their specific forum names and context, I want my forum PMs on the forum.
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On the private messages page, go to the bottom right corner on desktop web site and download all messages in your preferred format. Problem solved.
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On the private messages page, go to the bottom right corner on desktop web site and download all messages in your preferred format. Problem solved.
Awesome! I've never noticed that option before! I find myself having to delete older messages periodically, now I can download everything and get back to zero!
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On the private messages page, go to the bottom right corner on desktop web site and download all messages in your preferred format. Problem solved.
That's very helpful, thank you, sincerely! I now have a backup of my emails and even in multiple searchable forms, awesome!

However, it doesn't solve "the problem" since the problem posed in this thread is rather "How to get more message quota?". Admins aren't responding to anything around here, even when being offered money -- not to posts, not to Contact Us, not to direct PMs (my PM to Jason is still unread according to read receipts).
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That's very helpful, thank you, sincerely! I now have a backup of my emails and even in multiple searchable forms, awesome!

However, it doesn't solve "the problem" since the problem posed in this thread is rather "How to get more message quota?". Admins aren't responding to anything around here, even when being offered money -- not to posts, not to Contact Us, not to direct PMs (my PM to Jason is still unread according to read receipts).
I also wish they had a paid subscription system where you get, say, 5000 PMs. Charge me $5 a month and I'd be happy to pay
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