Oh now this is an interesting mess we've gotten into Olly. to paraphrase. My vnqt was slowing down terribly even with all databases cleaned out and all temp files and cookies gone, so I started cleaning out the email files. Well...imagine my surprise when I discovered that the manual section on this topic isn't very clear. I have created a few files to keep specific messages separate. I've got one for all the good tech advice on the voicenote. One for everything I felt I ought to keep a copy of after I said it somewhere. And one for messages from friends I've reconnected with since getting the voicenote. Well, these all had the messages in them that I wanted to keep there because that's where I moved them to keep. I discovered the file called Received had duplicate copies of everything I had put somewhere else so I deleted all those as I didn't need a second copy of all the things worth keeping. Oh dear, not a good plan because when you delete a message out of the received folder by moving it to the trash, it gets yanked out of anywhere else it might have been put also and gone gone gone it is. So now all the stuff I thought important enough to create separate folders for and put somewhere organized to keep at hand has been flushed away with its duplicate copy from a folder I never put it in in the first place. THis inspires the use of several four letter words I won't type here.
This leaves me with the conclusion that there's something not quite clear to me in the email file structure even though I've read the manual on it several times. When I get new messages they go into the Inbox. OK fine. WHen I read them I have to do womthing with them. If I don't delete them at that very time, if I send them to another file, they then also go into the received file. Now then I can get rid of them from the file I intentionally put them in and they will still be in the received file or not I haven't figured that out yet. But if I try to empty the received file which I didn't want in the first place as it's a jumble of everything, I lose the orderly arrangement of where I put all the messages and I lose the messages too. It's a bit late to close the barn door, but for future reference, does anyone have a clear sense of this mess they call the email ddatabase?
