How to delete forum section in a big forum database?

[Kevlar21]

Hi all,

I have an ultra huge forum database with thousands of threads per forum section.
I want to remove a few forum sections but it is ultra slow and crashes. I even tried prune a batch of threads but it still crashes and lags the server.

Is there a way to delete a certain forum section without it crashing?

Can this be done via myphpadmin? or will it be a hassles because of counters and so many affected tables?

I could pay someone to delete each thread manually but this would take them a few days

Please help, thanks.

[kh99]

I've never had to do that, but if you have a busy site you might want to try scheduling a time for the site to be down, then try it with the site closed.

[Kevlar21]

No, I've closed the site down, but when deleting say, 20 threads at a time, it is still taking a while.

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Just did some research and there is no solution. Pruning threads will just take ages even on a fast server.