PS: This i an old version - 4.0.2.1 and upgrading is not an option right now since there is too much custom coding involved. So I cannot use any of the great packages there is to achieve this, plus its a MySql installation to complicate it even more..

One "hack" I can use is to build a simple usercontrol that loads an xml list with all member ids that i filtered by member group and just delete them from CmsMember.

Is that ok or will it mess upp the system?

If you have all the member ids, I would use the API to delete them to avoid any chance of messing the DB up - it might just be me being a chicken, but that's what I would do.

I'm "stuck" on a later version, but I don't think the API has changed much in this area:

            umbraco.cms.businesslogic.member.Member mbr = new umbraco.cms.businesslogic.member.Member(id);
            mbr.delete();

regards, Steen

The problem is that there is over 2500 members that should be deleted and I wonder if umbraco.cms.businesslogic.member is too slow to handle that?

I know that working with that often chokes the connection to the db.

I created a usercontrol and used the API code and it worked!

Except one strange thing: The member is still in the DB but not in the backend?

Is the member inactivated or something or am I just crazy??

:) Is that a question for me?

Not really sure, I'm not totally sure as to how it is done, but maybe the transaction is not done clearing the data out of the tables?

I feel like going crazy when it doesnt make any sense :)

Well, the mist important thing is that it looks ok in the backend..but still strange..

Thx for the help!

np, and the members are still in the database?

I think I found the problem...

The row with the user in UmbracoNode is deleted but not the other connected rows.
Very strange..and I know that the loop of deleteing finished.

Is that the way the api around member.delete() should work?

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