How to delete a comment in order?

**toussi** · 18 Nov 2008, 08:03 PM

I need to delete a comment that was put into an order. How do i do this without destroying everything?

How do i edit it or delete it?

**dbltoe** · 19 Nov 2008, 03:31 AM

You'll need to edit the database, and unless you're skilled in that area, it's highly unrecommended to mess around there.

**ningyotan** · 3 Dec 2010, 04:05 AM

Originally Posted by dbltoe

You'll need to edit the database, and unless you're skilled in that area, it's highly unrecommended to mess around there.

I'd like to do this also, I'm happy to alter the database but I'm a complete newbie at playing with that, could you send me in the right direction? Thanks in advance.

**Ajeh** · 3 Dec 2010, 06:24 AM

Very carefully, go into phpMyAdmin and in your database you will see the table for:
orders_status_history

browse it for the orders_id that matches the Order you want to remove a comment from ...

Then you can delete the text you want to remove, or the entire record ...

Be careful not to delete something that you may regret ...

NOTE: backups are your friend ...

**ningyotan** · 13 Dec 2010, 11:17 AM

Legend, thanks. I've gone in and deleted the records containing the comments that were wrong. I backed up first and checked each individual order to make sure the entries disappeared, which they did.

Thank you very much!

Originally Posted by Ajeh

Very carefully, go into phpMyAdmin and in your database you will see the table for:
orders_status_history

browse it for the orders_id that matches the Order you want to remove a comment from ...

Then you can delete the text you want to remove, or the entire record ...

Be careful not to delete something that you may regret ...

NOTE: backups are your friend ...