Accessing old PMs?

[WrenchMonkey]

I might be retarded. If I am, just say so.

But I can only bring up twenty PMs in my inbox, and twenty in my sent folder. But the total count still shows 133.

Where do the old ones go? Can they be brought back? is there an "Old PM" button I'm too stupid to see?

Thanks,
Robert

 

[5-90]

Have you checked to see if there's a sort of "page count" thingy on the right, like on hot threads? It should be just above the top right of the chart and again just below the bottom left, just like on longer threads...

 

[WrenchMonkey]

Nope. There really are only twenty messages in the inbox. Well, 18 since I tried moving a couple into a dummy folder...

But sice it still counts 133 total, I have to think they old ones are going somewhere...

(Sorry, that's friggin huge...)

Robert

 

[ChiXJeff]

PM counts are known to be just plain wrong, and it's a long outstanding issue. Yes, it's on my list of things to fix.

 

[5-90]

Oh. Forget I said anything then - I've not noted a problem here.

Rob, are you running Vista? How's it working for you? I'm usually checking to see what people have to say (and I've not had a good report from the field yet, but you may be the first.) Why would you be running Vista - OEM load?

 

[WrenchMonkey]

PM counts are known to be just plain wrong, and it's a long outstanding issue. Yes, it's on my list of things to fix.

Okay. I know I had others, older than what's showing up. But if they've just passed away of old age, I can certainly accept that.

It just looked like they were hiding someplace...

Thanks anyway...

Rob, are you running Vista? How's it working for you? I'm usually checking to see what people have to say (and I've not had a good report from the field yet, but you may be the first.) Why would you be running Vista - OEM load?

Yep. My tax return last February showed up two days after Vista premiered, and you couldn't find a laptop without it.

The good: It is pretty. All the taskbars, headers, and whatnot are that fancy-ass shiny/translucent effect. The Google toolbar is kinda handy, though I don't know if that's a Vista thing or not. And... that's about it.

The bad: It is slower than dirt. It's a dual-core (2x1.6GHz?), and boots slower than my old 266 Emachine running ME. I guess it's a matter of RAM, and my 1Gig isn't enough. Guy at work bumped his up to 2G, and said it helped a lot. And I've had a lot of trouble with the new media player.

The ugly, and what really got under my skin: The new version of Outlook won't work with my Hotmail account. I've been using this email addy for like 12 years, now I have to go through their "Windows Live" to get to it...

Overall, I don't hate it, but I don't love it either... I think the lack of ram is my biggest problem, though it kills me that I've got eight times what I had before, and now it's not enough...

Ain't progress great?

Robert

 

[ChiXJeff]

Uh..... you got something else going on with your laptop, methinks.

I've got a brand new Dell Inspiron 2.4gHz CoreDuo (4gb of memory) running Vista Ultimate, and loading up openSuSE 10.3 32bit on it right now. This thing boots so fast you'd think for sure there was something wrong. I also have a desktop running XP SP2 (2.4gHz quadcore w/ 4gb of RAM) that boots slower than the laptop.

I won't speak to Outlook, I only use that in the office, and even then under protest.

 

[WrenchMonkey]

... I've got ... 4gb of memory ... so fast ...

See, I think that's the thing...

I won't speak to Outlook, I only use that in the office, and even then under protest.

Well, it's just what I was used to, and it tweeked me that microsoft's outlook wouldn't work with microsoft's hotmail.

I guess I shouldn't have been surprised...

Robert

 

[ChiXJeff]

Yes, I'm reopening this thread.

Robert, check your counts now, they should be accurate.

 

[WrenchMonkey]

Yes, I'm reopening this thread.

Robert, check your counts now, they should be accurate.

Yep, thanks.

But really, I wasn't worried about the count. It just looked like they were still around...

Thanks anyway!

Robert

 

[Glenn B]

Yep, thanks.

But really, I wasn't worried about the count. It just looked like they were still around...

Thanks anyway!

Robert

Nope, the old stuff was lost in an odd database crash a while ago. The counters never quite reflected what was actually available after the crash.