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hefalumps · 04-28-2008, 06:58 PM

Thanks 98 Yankees and PSU Colonel - I actually found that thread before but was hoping someone who had been a bit more selective in what they deleted (instead of just deleating everything) might be able to share exactly what they did here.

For example, my league started in 1970 and I'm now in June 1973. I'd like to delete all the news messages from 1970 through 1972, but not 1973. It looks like I could just find the first 1973 story and delete any files in the "messages" folder with a timestamp earlier than that first 1973 file, but then I'm confused what to do with the "messages.dat" file. If I delete the files and delete "messages.dat", will OOTP be smart enough to create a new messages.dat with only my remaining 1973 stories in it?

Those were the kind of details I was curious if anyone had worked through yet. If not, I'll test some stuff out at the All-Star Break when I do my next full league backup.

04-28-2008, 06:58 PM	#4 (permalink)
hefalumps All Star Reserve Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 824 Thanks: 28 Thanked 64x in 44 posts	Thanks 98 Yankees and PSU Colonel - I actually found that thread before but was hoping someone who had been a bit more selective in what they deleted (instead of just deleating everything) might be able to share exactly what they did here. For example, my league started in 1970 and I'm now in June 1973. I'd like to delete all the news messages from 1970 through 1972, but not 1973. It looks like I could just find the first 1973 story and delete any files in the "messages" folder with a timestamp earlier than that first 1973 file, but then I'm confused what to do with the "messages.dat" file. If I delete the files and delete "messages.dat", will OOTP be smart enough to create a new messages.dat with only my remaining 1973 stories in it? Those were the kind of details I was curious if anyone had worked through yet. If not, I'll test some stuff out at the All-Star Break when I do my next full league backup.