From b2e02084b82ca4340c1ccc039a0768a6c9c5fbd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ander Punnar <4ND3R@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 13:25:42 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] make it absolutely clear that Purge History API does not
 remove all traces of events and message contents

because this topic pops up too often

#890 #1621 #1730 #2260 #2315 and so on
---
 docs/admin_api/purge_history_api.rst | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/admin_api/purge_history_api.rst b/docs/admin_api/purge_history_api.rst
index 986efe40f..08b330636 100644
--- a/docs/admin_api/purge_history_api.rst
+++ b/docs/admin_api/purge_history_api.rst
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ Purge History API
 The purge history API allows server admins to purge historic events from their
 database, reclaiming disk space.
 
+**NB!** This will not delete local events (locally sent messages content etc) from the database, but will remove lots of the metadata about them and does dramatically reduce the on disk space usage
+
 Depending on the amount of history being purged a call to the API may take
 several minutes or longer. During this period users will not be able to
 paginate further back in the room from the point being purged from.