Thanks for the info. Yeah, I'm a dummy about scripts etc. I haven't ever dove into those things much.I just thought when I installed it, that it was going to be something that I didn't need to know much about it, to be able to use it. I used to go through and delete things one by one but after you don't do it for awhile, it gets over whelming. I don't recall it ever working actually, maybe it did at first, I've had it a few years and there has been updates to facebook a few times. I will try to completely delete greasemonkey and re install it, maybe it has been updated to where it will be doing what I want to do. I actually don't understand why they don't have a mass delet function on facebook itself. Lesser websites and programs sure do, well as far as what I see on screen...Sometimes there is just a lot of old stuff that for what ever reason your ideas have changed, maybe you don't associate with some individual anymore. anyway, Thanks a lot...I will keep stumbling onward..!!
On Saturday, September 21, 2019 at 2:00:23 PM UTC-4, LWChris wrote: > > Just to make it clear: > > Greasemonkey or Greasemonkey scripts cannot delete Facebook posts > directly, all any script could do is provide an easy way to automate what > you'd have to do by hand on Facebook. So if there is the ability to delete > an old Facebook post by clicking a "Delete" link and confirm a popup > dialog, a dedicated script could click the link and confirm the popup for > you. > > It sounds like you have such script that tries to automate deleting old > posts, and chances are Facebook updated something on their side and now the > script does no longer know what to do because the page's source code is now > different at a certain part that the script needed to find the things it > needed to click on. > > An arbitrary example to illustrate what I mean would be that the delete > links were previously tagged with "fb-action-delete-post" and now they're > named "fb-action-remove-post". The script tries to identify the delete link > by looking for a post's "fb-action-delete-post" link; now it doesn't find > that link, hence it doesn't know what to do and does nothing. > > Usually, script authors will fix such issues on their side and update the > script at the website it was hosted on. However there a chance the script > has been abandonned by the original author, or (s)he hasn't fixed it yet, > or the automated update doesn't work. If you remember where you go the > script from, try visiting that page and see if there have been any updates > published. > > Chris > Am 20.09.2019 um 23:23 schrieb Dan Almashy: > > While someone is on looking, can I ask why my greasemonkey doesn't > delete my old facebook posts etc when I tell it to? I have tried it > multiple times on firefox and it goes through the motions but never does > actually delete anything. I have stuff from 9 years ago and just want to > clear most of it other than recent stuff, maybe I need to do something > other to make it work? > > > On Friday, September 20, 2019 at 2:16:54 PM UTC-4, Rick Bauer wrote: >> >> What on earth makes anyone at grease monkey think they have the mental >> capacity to decide for me which scripts I want to run and more importantly >> who feels they have the right to just remove scripts I use regularly from >> MY browser? >> >> I'm not even sure that is legal without permission of the owner. >> >> This is completely disrespectful to your users and is an insult the same >> as if you told your users you could care less how they feel or what they >> want. >> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "greasemonkey-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to greasemonkey-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/greasemonkey-users/da5c619d-e018-4a95-ae3e-8b84859ceb76%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/greasemonkey-users/da5c619d-e018-4a95-ae3e-8b84859ceb76%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "greasemonkey-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to greasemonkey-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/greasemonkey-users/f4ac8b02-7c14-4e81-a026-182be654ab87%40googlegroups.com.
