FabSwingers.com forum: Old "read" messages disappeared

By *eordies OP Couple
over a year ago

newcastle

We had some messages in our "read" folder up to 46 weeks old, but as of today the oldest is only 6 weeks ago.

Have older messages been deleted for some reason ? We certainly did not delete them.

By *he Queen of TartsWoman
Forum Mod
over a year ago

My Own Little World

Fab sometimes deletes old read messages to free up server space, put them in your saved folder instead.

By *ezebelWoman
over a year ago

North of The Wall - youll need your vest

From FAQs:

I've not logged on for a while and now most of my messages have been deleted / I have loads of messages in my inbox and some of the older ones have gone missing

Fab is a super busy site. Hundreds of thousands of private mails are sent every day and we have tens of millions of such messages on our system. Because we do this mostly for free, we can't keep all the messages for ever because our costs would go up and up and the site would get slower and slower. Older messages that have already been read in "dormant" accounts that haven't been logged into for a while are removed from the system. Similarly if you have loads of mails in your inbox, the system will periodically remove some of the oldest.

If some mails are important to you and you want to make sure they're not deleted, become a site supporter and save any important mails to your "saved message folder" (look for "save it" on the bottom of messages you receive) and we'll keep those mails on the system (unless we screw things up and they get deleted too; but we'll try not to!).