Reply To: How to delete specifc forum filled with spam?
Right, I suspect this might be more like 30 seconds?
Typically if PHP cannot complete a task within 30 seconds you receive a “time out” error
If you run the “Count topics in each forum” and “Count replies in each forum” repair tools you should get an accurate count of how many topics and replies remain in the forum you wish to delete. Now try deleting the forum again, once PHP times out, go back, run those same two repair tools again, are the counts different? how many topics and replies did it delete before timing out? If it’s 1,000 topics removed, you’d need to repeat those steps 30 times, get my drift? Keep doing this until the forum and all its topics and replies are deleted.
So the above is a bit hacky, but it should get the job done 😉
