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Old Jun 30, 2014 | 8:17 am
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Originally Posted by Canarsie
Did you know that you can save your private messages in one of three formats — XML, CSV or TEXT — to your hard disk drive, whereby afterwards you can clear out your private message account and start over fresh?

You can even save out to all three formats before clearing out your private messages...
Didn't know that; learned something new!

Originally Posted by Canarsie
How about this:

Click on the QUOTE button of each private message you would like to preserve and copy the BB code so that you keep the quoting and other functions intact; then paste it into a text editor or Microsoft Word...

...then when you are ready to send that private message, it will be pre-formatted for you when you copy it and paste it in the future.
I normally just copy the verbiage straight into a word doc if there's something in a PM I want to keep, but good idea re: the BB code.

Cheers.
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