I just deleted (permanently) about 20 emails that I needed to follow up on. Every morning I eradicate my overnight spam with extreme prejudice. This morning I highlighted all of the messages in the folder just like I do every day, held down the "shift" key and pressed "delete". When the happy little pop-up popped up and asked "Jim, are you absolutely sure that you want to delete these emails in a frightfully permanent, never to be undone manner? I mean - you will never, EVER see these again and that's no joke Homey. OK or Cancel?" I hit "OK" like I do every day. Imagine my perplexity when all of the emails in the folder disappeared but the number next to the "Junk" folder in my Outlook bar stayed exactly the same. Follow along with my thought processes:
that's weird...what just happened there...something wrong with the Outlook bar...did I just go through the delete sequence or am I so sleepy that I messed it up...mmmm coffee...folder's definitely empty so why does it still say there are unread messages...weird shit...oh, wait...when I click on the folder it's full again...was I even on that folder...where was I...what did I delete...sonofabitchshitdammitarghhhhh!!!
Damn. There were emails from Melissa (the car Pimpress) and some new Pimp Dogg in there. I think I can fake it responding to those though. At least 3 or 4 leads for Zero Intelligence just bit it and that hurts. Good leads aren't as easy to come by now with summer break in session. There were two for Memeblog; hope Simon will catch those. Oddly enough there were some work related ones too. How did those get in there...
If you mailed me and were waiting for a response please mail me again.
On the plus side, my Inbox hasn't been this clean in three and a half years!
:-(
I've done similar.
I've a neat filter on incredimail, and everything that isn't approved goes into that file. There are two choices when going through; approve or delete.
I am sure when day I'm going to end up approving all those messages that have the word:
IMPORTANT in it.
(sigh)
Hope those who wrote see and are resend.
Ahh ... this is why i subscribe to the G-Mail principle of never deleting anything ever - yeah sure my .pst file is over 2 GB but at least I never lose anything important...
Did you delete the mails I sent you? The ones about male-pattern baldness and penile erectile disfunction? Cause those ones are real whippers.
Rob - I put off setting up a pst file for just over 3 years. Why get proactive at this late date? ;-)
Helen - I must have deleted them but don't worry - I've already got both of those.
I just had a similar thing happen to me, except it wasn't the Inbox...it was my entire C: drive.
My computer is dead. I have to use the one at work for everything now.
That's a shame as I had sent you the one email to end all emails before deleting it myself. Not to worry.
Odd that you picked the only time I ever e-mailed you to delete them all...
Fibbers! Everybody knows that I always forward any emails from Simon and Madfish to all of my friends to prove how popular and connected I am.