Can personal messages be archived, downloaded? I'm almost full.

[addicted-to-smoke]

1) Yes, and here's how:

2) No, let's forget the past.

3) Mmm, donuts.

[kettlebb]

Good ask!  I'd like to know as well.  And yeah, donuts are great.

[kettlebb]

@addicted-to-smoke here's what I've found so far:

4. Maybe.
On the desktop version of the site click "My Messages" -> "Actions" -> "Export all PMs".  From here you can export them all to an XML document which isn't very user friendly but at least you have them.  The other thought here is in your profile under the personal message section there is an option to notify by email every time you get a PM.  I believe the email body contains the text in the PM.  As long as you don't delete the emails you can delete the PMs and reference the emails later if you need to. 

If the mods know of any other ways please let us know.

[addicted-to-smoke]

I'll try the export; didn't realize it was there.

I've always deleted my email notifications because the text only identifies the sender as "they" and doesn't include the username. (I don't think.)