I think you're right, Dan. Option 2 is actually somewhat slower -- maybe
25% -- than "Mark All as Read" when all of the messages are unread. But, if
you're just "catching up" the latest few dozen messages in a folder that has
a few thousand items, Option 2 is 10x faster or more.
It looks like "Mark All as Read" goes and marks each message as read,
whether it is already marked as read or not. The method in #2 (possibly
with Allen's tweak for threaded view -- which I never use) only affects the
messages that need to be changed.
In any event, "Mark All as Read" is surprisingly slow -- 13 seconds on a
folder of only 562 items, on a 500MHz G4 laptop! Selecting all the messages
in the mailbox and choosing "Mark as Read" or "Mark as Unread" are worse --
17 seconds on the same messages.
Anyway, hopefully this is a helpful tip for folks who occasionally do what I
do, which is to just want to catch up a few dozen messages out of that big
folder.
Speaking of Threaded view -- I'm curious as to whether people use this a
lot. I never do, because I found its utility to be greatly diminished by
the apparent absence of any way to sort the threads, except the default: by
subject. I would like to be able to use threaded view, but sort by ... say
... received date, which would sort the threads with the
most-recently-received messages to the top.
> On 6/25/01 5:59 PM, "Michael J. Kobb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I can mark all my unread messages (in a given folder) as read in two ways:
>>
>> 1) Choose "Mark all as read"
>>
>> or
>>
>> 2) Cmd-Y to show only unread. Cmd-A to select all. Cmd-T to mark the
>> selected items as read.
>>
>> Option 2 is typically tremendously faster than option 1, especially in a
>> large mailbox like a mailing list or the like.
>>
>> Hopefully this message is both a helpful suggestion to users, and also a
>> helpful suggestion to the Entourage team for an area for improvement! :-)
>> (And thanks again for adding the confirmation dialog to the "Mark All as
>> Read" menu item!!)
>
> Hmm, interesting observation. Do you have a lot of read messages in your
> folder? I don't think it should make a difference if you have only unread
> messages.
>
> Dan
>
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