Can someone tell me how to archive topics, is there a command of some sort that I missing??

What do you like to do ? Export them to read it offline or archive inside UUBthreads ?

If you like to archive inside Threads just create a forum, set the permissions to read only for all groups except administrator and move the the threads to this forum, done.

ok. I thought there was a auto command that archives all topic older than a year or something. A member lately informed me that he couldnt locate a certain topics, is it possible they were archives if so where are they?

Yeah, UBB.Threads doesn't have any archive ability.... you could move them to another forum, but that doesn't decrease load or post table size or anything.

actually UBBT deletes posts older than the time you specify in your Control Panel -> Forum Settings -> Edit Forum -> Expire Topics but only if you have set up a cron job for doexpire.php

also you can manually prune topics by going to control panel -> prune topics

now if you haven't done either of those and the thread is gone.. you may also have a corrupt table...

I wrote a mod for this for 6.4.2... https://www.ubbdev.com/forum/showflat.php?Number=112548

I have since stopped using it in favor of just locking threads that have not been active for 365 days.

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UPDATE w3t_Posts SET B_Status = "C", B_Kept = "K" WHERE ( UNIX_TIMESTAMP( ) - B_Last_Post ) / ( 3600 * 24 ) >= '365' AND B_Status != "C"
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I do this manually, but it could easily be setup as a cron task - I'm just too lazy.