3 year old ads still there...

[Swanny]

So why would I have so many old ads that don't get deleted?

For example:
- 97-03 OEM Black f150 Hood - Ford F150 Classifieds
- Full F150 Stepside Body Kit - Ford F150 Classifieds

I've got ads going back to 2008, and a few from 2007. Why don't they get deleted after a certain time period? I can tell you that certainly many if not all of them haven't been renewed for years at a time.

I've had this cronjob setup for years (runs nightly), and now that I upgraded today (from 3.04 to 4.1) I set the cron to run in the footer...:
"/usr/bin/wget --spider http://www.example.com/classifieds/sendnotice.php" (actual domain name changed)

And how can I go about mass deleting anything over a year old? Don't tell me it's a manual process ;-)

Thx.

[Chuck S]

Did you have ads that used the no expire option as thats the only way they would not expire?

If your running the cron thats the only way they would still show.

[Swanny]

I created a new test ad, and I don't see a "never" expires option, I'm guessing that used to be in there somewhere?

I "manually" deleted about 200 ads today, cleaned things up nicely. Sure made people ask questions though when they got an e-mail saying their ad was deleted when they forgot they posted an ad 3 years ago.

[Chuck S]

Yes alot of customers earlier years ago wanted that option. I removed it in the past couple versions as I just found out through support over the years more people like you posting here are confused. makes no sense to include an option people want but do not like even though tons asked for it.