Ah. Hmm....

[changeling]

It seems my estimate of "I probably have about 30,000 unread messages in my home inbox" was a bit conservative. I seem to have 6,454,168. I don't think I've made a mistake with the data entry.

Six million, four hundred and fifty four thousand, one hundred and sixty eight.

Ah. Hmm.... *winces slightly* No wonder Outlook is so damned slow.

[Edit: I am a knob-jockey. I added it up again and I only have 24,719. Isn't that a relief...?]

Comments

[rhakylia.livejournal.com]

thanks for reminding me....I completely forget we had a home account...I better go and check that

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

*grins* 's where most of my mail goes to.

[dorukai.livejournal.com]

For the record, outlook goes all fucked if you have too many messages in your inbox (if it's insanely slow that's probably happening in your case).

How about making a folder "old inbox" and moving all 24,719 messages into it, giving you the chance to sort them later while hopefully still speeding things up a leetle?

*spanks* for using Outlook in the first place, mind you . . .

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

They're not in my actual inbox, they're in subfolders.

And I can't afford a *real* mail program...

[dorukai.livejournal.com]

Ok, I dunno then :)

And there are free mail programs around that are better than Outlook. I use Eudora for e.g., which has an adware version. I can't recall offhand whether it'll migrate Outlook mailboxes across.

Anyway, if you're relatively happy with Outlook and it's not letting you pick up too many viruses etc there's no compelling reason to change.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I could live without my mailbox, I'd just not uninstall Outlook.

I don't think I've picked up any viruses...

[dorukai.livejournal.com]

Well, unless you've got a totally up to date virus scanner, you just wouldn't know . . .

Outlook is evil. Security holes galore.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Yeh, I need a new virus scanner.

I have Outlook.