From what I read in the "How do I ...?" forum, it seems like the archiving feature is removed from v6, which is kinda unfortunate. The workaround seems to be:
1. Make a read-only forum
2. Set that forum to sort alphabetically
3. Move old posts into it
However, it is a real pain in the ass to go into every topic you'd like to archive, scroll to the bottom, choose Move, choose Delete from Current, etc, etc. PLUS, this isn't really archiving the posts, because they still exist as HTML, right? Maybe I'm off on this (I'm no Perl ninja) but I thought that the v5 archives were stored as .CGIs and made into .HTMs on the fly, because they were seldom used, and this allowed the server to save space. Does v6 still maintain the .CGI and the .HTM files?
It would be absolutely rad if some kind-hearted Perl whiz could do the following:
1. Make a mass Move-by-Date function (just like the Prune by Date) that allows you to archive large amounts of posts at a time.
2. If v6 has the .CGI/.HTM thing like v5, if you could set a forum to be not-cached, ie, to remain as .CGI only. (To save space)
If some mod like this already exists, I couldn't find it - please let me know!
Thanks!
