Follow-up to last night's Outlook adventures

By aaron.axvig, Fri, 05/02/2008 - 03:00

Sometimes things happen to me that are so stupid I feel compelled to share them so others can get, at the most, a good laugh, or at the least, a headshake.

You may recall the post I wrote last night, about my devious attempts to find out which two messages in my Deleted Items were unread.  I went to bed feeling pretty smart, knowing that by morning my computer would be done moving things and I would be able to see what I wanted to see.

I did not feel so smart after I woke up.  I looked at my computer and there was a new message ready to be composed, with 4000 messages attached as files.  I sleepily muttered some obscenities, clicked Close, and clicked No, Don't Save the Draft.

All was well until I got to work at 11:00 and needed to see an old message from my boss.  The Deleted Items folder was empty!

So I spent the next 5 minutes restoring my messages from the "permanently" deleted messages archive via Outlook Web Access, 50 messages at a time.  Apparently it decided I wanted to move all my messages into a new message, and moved them there permanently.  Of course then I didn't save the draft, so they were gone.

On the up side, it showed the two unread messages right at the top of the OWA display of the 4000 messages.  So I actually did work out a valid way of finding those unread messages.

And no, they were not important messages.

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