65,535 Private Messages - How To Fix
I'm sure many of you have noticed that there have been some issues lately with PMs, often times showing up with 65,535 unread or something in the vicinity of that amount. Somewhere in the operation of the forum code, an error occurred. It is only an error in the quantity of PMs, no errors occurred with your actual PMs.
When you see that your count is huge like that, follow these steps:
1. Go into your inbox and select all of the messages on the first page. Do this by marking the check box that is above the column of check box's on the right hand side of the screen.
2. Then go down the screen to the drop down box labeled "Selected Messages" and click on "Mark as Read".
3. After that, click on the button right next to the drop down menu marked "Go".
If that does not work, try deleting a few of the PMs that you don't need. One of those two solutions should fix it for you.
Please attempt to fix it yourself before you post up. After you have tried these methods, and it is still not correct, THEN, and ONLY THEN, should you post up about this topic.
For those curious about what causes the glitch, it is a database glitch. "65535," is the max number of a signed INT value, equivalent of "FFFF" in hex, or 256^2. Something went screwy with either the passing to or from of a value between the forum code and the database server. |