Forum won't delete

[PinkDaisy]

I have a forum that I used for archives for old posts. It has alot of posts in there. (threads: 14,892 ; posts: 163,090)

For some reason, my VB will NOT delete this forum as a whole. I have tried to delete the threads individually but it only lets me select maybe like 20 at a time and it will take forever (it's 700+ pages to do it that way). And sometimes when it does let me, it gives me a database error since it takes up so many queries and its maxed out on my server.

Any reason why VB won't let me just delete the forum??

[Winterworks]

That is very odd indeed,

Could I check it out, and try to delete it? I may have an idea.

[PinkDaisy]

Sure. Just PM me when you have time and we are online together and can set something up.

[Dismounted]

What is the error vBulletin gives you when you try to delete a forum?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Just delete the forum. If it times out, repeat until it completes.

[PinkDaisy]

It just sits there, I go to choose delete it, confirm it and then it just sits on a blank page like its working to delete it, but never does.

[SEOvB]

Disable plugins and modifications first before trying to delete it, or shut your forum off wait a few minutes then try again.

It sounds like your server isn't able to process it.

[Dismounted]

Originally Posted by PinkDaisy

It just sits there, I go to choose delete it, confirm it and then it just sits on a blank page like its working to delete it, but never does.

If it goes to a blank page - that is an indicator that the page has timed out. See Marco's reply.

[PinkDaisy]

I just did all of this. I unabled all my hacks/plugins, turned my board off and now have the same database error on my server.