Howto/pages/02.tutorials/01.User/02.GDPR/04.discourse/docs.en.md

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title: "Discourse: Exporting your Forum posts"
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**Discourse**, the forum software used by **Disroot**, allows you to export the text content of all your posts to a .csv file, (a simple text file which is supported by most calc/spreadsheet software).


**To export your posts from Discourse:**
- Login in the **Forum**
- Press your user avatar on the upper right corner of the screen
- Press the button with your username

  ![](en/export.gif)

- Press the **Download All** button

  ![](en/download_1.png)

- A pop-up windows will appear asking if you want to download your posts and then press **OK**

  ![](en/download_2.png)

- The system will start processing your data and send you a notification when it is ready to download.

  ![](en/download_3.png)

  ![](en/notification.png)

- You will get a message from the system notifying you that the data is ready to be downloaded, and providing you a link to download the .csv file with a copy of your posts. If you have enabled notifications via email, you will also get an email with this information.

- Press the link to download the file.

  ![](en/notification_2.png)  

- The link will be available for 48h, after that it will expire and you will have to export your data again.

- Once you extract the file you can open it in your spreadsheet program.


**NOTE**: The data can only be downloaded once every 24h