FabSwingers.com forum: Fab auto deleting messages

By *arlo82 OP Couple
over a year ago

the gym and random places

What gives with that?? I pay my subscription and I am a bit annoyed that they auto delete messages. If I wanted to delete them I would. I pay so i can see a running story line of my messages yet fab auto deleted them

Could you provide an insight as to why please

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By *he Queen of TartsWoman
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over a year ago

My Own Little World

The cost of server space I would assume.

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By *londieddWoman
over a year ago

fife

don't think this has ever happened to me

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

Is the person whose messages were deleted still a member?

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

O o O oo

https://www.fabswingers.com/articles/FAQ#messages_missing

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!).

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've found if you've a lot of messages the site hides some. If you delete some of the visible ones they return, so not a server size issue. It doesn't seem to be just an order thing either.

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By *imply_SensualMan
over a year ago

Widnes

Another aspect of life where size matters

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How many messages can one keep in the saved folder?

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By *j_markCouple
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over a year ago

Totteridge/Whetstone

"What gives with that?? I pay my subscription and I am a bit annoyed that they auto delete messages. If I wanted to delete them I would. I pay so i can see a running story line of my messages yet fab auto deleted them

Could you provide an insight as to why please "

Are these old messages?

Or ones you have deleted that no longer show in thread view

Admin

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By *arlo82 OP Couple
over a year ago

the gym and random places

Yeah i do save certain ones but as a site I believe we should have the option otherwise why do I pay a subscription. Yeah all still members

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By *eady and Willing 9Man
over a year ago

Wherever the party is @

How many messages are we talking. Unread,read,sent?

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By *arlo82 OP Couple
over a year ago

the gym and random places

Read and sent and about 40/50 messages yet again

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A few months ago several unread messages disappeared out of my inbox. They'd been there for a few weeks while I took a break and when I came back they were gone. Older, read messages were still there.

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By *arlo82 OP Couple
over a year ago

the gym and random places

Yeah I've older ones there but there's a chunk missing. Bit unfair they just delete them tbf if I wanted to delete them I would

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By *arlo82 OP Couple
over a year ago

the gym and random places

Could you provide an insight as to why please

Are these old messages?

Or ones you have deleted that no longer show in thread view

Admin "

Hi admin

Ove older messages that are still there but a chunk missing that I've never deleted. I enjoyed reading the conversation that I had then one day poof....gone. I don't see why or how that's acceptable really. A message takes up a tiny section of data in the grand scheme of things.

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By *j_markCouple
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over a year ago

Totteridge/Whetstone

Could you provide an insight as to why please

Are these old messages?

Or ones you have deleted that no longer show in thread view

Admin

Hi admin

Are these messages mid-thread with someone who is still on the site?

And have you deleted the messages?

If you contact us privately with full details we can have a look

Admin x

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By *ilkythroat4uTV/TS
over a year ago

kensal rise

I dont appreciate all my msgs being auto deleted when I dont have a chance to reply they dont take up that much memory so I dont understand I fall a sleep and wake up to less msgs then I had initially makes me not want be a subscribed member

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By *herryEatersCouple
over a year ago

East Cheshire

This annoys us constantly too. Seems there's a message number limit, older messages get deleted. We sometimes look back at old messages to remind us of their names, phone number, address or something they said that is now contradicted. Server space ?, no, text messages take up a minute amount of space especially compared to photos and now videos !. Paid members should NOT see their conversations truncated !... Your answer FAB ?

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