Author Topic: Delete more than 50 contacts at a time (Read 823 times)

knackers · January 28, 2010, 04:01:43 pm

Hey, sorry if this question seems obvious but I have a group of about 20k contacts and I need to delete them. Within civicrm I can only seem to delete 50 contacts at a time which seems bizzare. The reason for having so many was to try and send out a newsletter (which due to the 50 at a time limit also didn't work). I'm familiar with php/sql and don't mind doing it with a script.

Donald Lobo · January 28, 2010, 04:54:25 pm

1. you can select all contacts in the group and delete them. alternatively, you can write a php script that loops thru the 20K records and deletes them one at a time (use civicrm_contact_delete)

2. you send a "mail" to a group (i.e. the group of 20K contacts), not to 50 contacts at a time. that is probably the fastest and most efficient

lobo

knackers · January 28, 2010, 05:54:58 pm

Thanks for the response, perhaps it's just my version but I cannot click the "All x contacts" radio button, it just highlights everything on the page and stays on the "Selected contacts" radio. Consequently the action only applies to selected contacts, since fifty is the maximum number allowed on one page the action is only applied to those fifty.

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