Title: empty moderation file manually?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# empty moderation file manually?

 *  [kaylee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaylee/)
 * (@kaylee)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-moderation-file-manually/)
 * my moderate comments folder has gotten to be around 12,000 spam comments and 
   the page won’t load. So i can’t empty it. Is there any way to go into my folders
   and enter it manually? does anyone know where they are stored?

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 *  [Root](https://wordpress.org/support/users/root/)
 * (@root)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-moderation-file-manually/#post-605669)
 * They are in the database. Fire up phpmyadmin.
 *  Thread Starter [kaylee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaylee/)
 * (@kaylee)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-moderation-file-manually/#post-605789)
 * nice it worked thanks!

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-moderation-file-manually/#post-605789)
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