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.