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ulnoth Newbie Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: Sep 4, 2008	Email WWW PM Quote
	Hi all. I guess i messed up big time as i have had 1500+ spam comments on my article directory. I have now disabled the comments, plus removed two articles that were mainly targeted. The problem that i now have is that i have all these comments still in the following file "admin/index.php?a=admincp_comments&s=manage" . I have tried to replace/refresh this file by using FTP and overwriting it, but the comments are still there. I dont want to start over with the site as there are a few articles that have been submitted. I will take a guess and say that there is more than likely an easy solution to this, i just hope i don't look really dumb by not knowing it. I thought that i may be able to fix this in cpanel,but wanted to check here before diving in and really messing things up. All the best...Garry
	......................... http://gr8r.info/ Posted Nov 3, 2009, 1:29 am

ivanis Newbie Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: Today	Email WWW PM Quote
	Try going to cpanel, phpadmin, find your database, it will probably be articlems, check the box ams_comments, click browse and you should see all the comments there. You can delete the ones you don't want.
	Posted Nov 3, 2009, 3:25 pm

ulnoth Newbie Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: Sep 4, 2008	Email WWW PM Quote
	Hi ivanis, thanks for the reply. I took your advice and checked the file in cpanel, but was unable to find the comments. I know that i can delete the comments through the admin panel, but only one at a time, this would take hours and is out of the question. I would think that there is an easy way to accomplish deleting them quickly, i just can't see it. Garry
	......................... http://gr8r.info/ Posted Nov 3, 2009, 8:57 pm

ulnoth Newbie Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: Sep 4, 2008	Email WWW PM Quote
	Problem solved. Deleted all 1500 or so comments in under ten minutes using cpanel.
	......................... http://gr8r.info/ Posted Nov 4, 2009, 1:53 am