Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Auto Purge Threads

What does this hack do ?
This tool is based on Auto Delete/Move tool by HaMaDa4eVeR for vBulletin 3.6.4.

This hack can delete the threads that was created before X days in your specific forums or it can move threads to specific(Archive) through scheduled task.

Features:
Turn On the plugin
Turn On/Off Move system.
Turn On/Off Delete system.
Specific forums for move and delete.
Specific "Archive Forum".
Protected Users.
Delete Type (soft/hard).
Automatically update counters.
Choose to delete/move stickies.
Set how old must a thread be.
NO Code Modifications needed!

Installation:
1. Unzip the download package and copy the contents of the folder UPLOAD to your forum root
2. Go to the VB AdminCP->Plugins & Products click "Manage Products". Then click
"Add/Import Product" at the bottom of the page.
3. Click "Browse" button and point to the installation XML file included in this ZIP package.
4. Click "Import"
5. Once the gallery import is complete, you can setup your Auto Purge. Go to VB AdminCP -> Options -> Auto Purge Threads to setup the Auto Purge.
Also, you can change the cron setup in the task manager.

NOTE:
The default settings are:
- Soft delete for the threads that have been created before 15 days ago.
- Protected user that have id 1 & 2.
- It will running everyday at 5.00 AM.

Updates:

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v1.00
It is now vBulletin 4.x.x compatible.
Cron task added successfully. Removed some old SQL queries.
Removed the zero replies thread search.
Spanish translation added.

v1.01
You can set if you want to remove stickies.
If you move your threads, you can set if you want to unstick them if they are sticky.
XML tidied.

v1.02
You can set if you want to manually update your forum counters.
PHP tidied and optimized.

v1.03
Now you can move and/or delete different forums.
v1.03b
Fixed a MYSQL error.
v1.03c
Fixed a bug related to Protected users.

v1.04
Fixed a bug (thanks gocreate).
You can set if you want to remove locked threads.
You can set if you want to remove only threads without replies that match your other conditions.

v1.04b
Now you can protect some threads from moving/deletion.

v1.04d
Some bugs fixed.

v1.05
You can send PM when AutoPurge finish its work.

Next updates:
(sighs)

Special thanks to BirdOPrey5

Any donation?
I'm not begging but If you want, I would be glad to receive a small donation. There are 4.4 million unemployed in my country and It is hard to be employed.

[ShatteredMobius]

Request: Have the option for it to purge/move based on post count limit?
Say if the post count is greater or equal to a set limit when the scheduled job is ran.

[asabet]

Request: Option to only move closed threads

[Maxii]

how to move with multiple forums
as i have to move Effected Forums (multiple) & Archieve forum (Multiple) after every 30 days

example from forumid 1 to 2 after 30 days
forumid 3 to 4 after 30 days
forumid 8 to 9 after 30days

[dariyos]

doesnt work on vb 4.2.2 PL 1 ...

bugfix/update?

[kylek]

Just found this and installed, runs fine on 4.2.2 PL 1. We needed this as we have several forums that have rss feeds like horoscopes and it was a pain to go in and manually delete them after a time.

[oldengine]

The following dependencies were not met:

This product is not compatible with version 3.8.9 Beta 2 of vBulletin. (Compatible starting with 4.0)

[ozzy47]

Well yeah, as the mod is in the vB4 mod section, it would only stand to reason it is for vB4 not vB3.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by oldengine

The following dependencies were not met:

This product is not compatible with version 3.8.9 Beta 2 of vBulletin. (Compatible starting with 4.0)

I guess that answers my question. :down:

Not really. If you're willing to test it edit the xml file in a code editor and change the min version. This looks like it would work in 3.8. The min version is set in the first few lines of the file. Look for 4.0.0 and change it to 3.0.0, resave, and retry importing the file.

Originally Posted by ozzy47

Well yeah, as the mod is in the vB4 mod section, it would only stand to reason it is for vB4 not vB3.

Ordinarily I'd agree, and he certainly shouldn't expect support from the author who probably could only test it on 4.x, but as this mod is just a scheduled task I'd strongly suspect it works fine on 3.8.

[oldengine]

OK, it's in, thanks!

Everything is functional with no errors on 3.8.9 Beta 2.

I do need to fine tune the settings and figure out why it repeatedly ran for the first time, or at least it flooded my PM in-box. Like I said, fine tuning and sifting through the posts here.

[dknelson]

Great mod and I am using it but the fact that all forums must use the same criteria is a big negative. There was a similar mod that I used on my 3.8 board that allowed you to set different days to prune for different forums. I have a couple of forums that I would love to auto prune but one is pruned every 7 days and the other I want to prune every 90 days.