I can haz general discussion? 2!!

mickstupp wrote: »

^I delete things from gmail. They are gone.
Big fan of inbox zero.

yeah, good luck with that....

at least once a day I need to search my email to find some old but now relevant information that was sent to me.

I think of it like this, do you burn all your post after you read it?
no, but you do dispose of the unimportant stuff in less dramatic way.
But some of it you keep in case you need it later.

Places I've worked in have kept a large amount of institutional knowledge in their in-boxes.

mickstupp wrote: »

I don't have to search my mail for anything. I deal with things as they come in. No need to archive anything but the essay drafts I mail to a dedicated account. I've been doing inbox zero for two years very happily. I've had a gmail account for just under ten years and never had a problem deleting anything. It works just fine for me. Unless I'm misunderstanding you?

Try this, delete an email and it will be in your deleted folder, then delete it from the bin and then search for the same email and it will show up in all mail then delete it again and you will still be able to find it.

Personally I keep my inbox empty, anything important has a folder. I'm starting to like Gmail less, I prefer live mail and yahoo mail is even better for its simplicity but for some reason it's really slow and sometimes hangs when changing between mails.

@Alt_Grrr - no I don't think that's a silly example at all. I know exactly what it's like working in software companies. Obviously, deleting things like I do in my personal account would be a daft thing to do in work. But for my personal account... never had a problem. But then I've never used my personal account for work.

GarIT wrote: »

Try this, delete an email and it will be in your deleted folder, then delete it from the bin and then search for the same email and it will show up in all mail then delete it again and you will still be able to find it.

All I can think is that if you really believe you can't delete a mail from gmail, then you're doing it wrong, or you and I have very different settings in our accounts. Just as a test, I sent (from my nuim address) a mail with the subject line Deletiontestasd123, simply because it's a combination of letters I've never had in there before. Into gmail, there's the weird mail, delete. As you say, it goes straight to Trash. Delete it from there, and that's it. No more mail. Search for the subject line, no joy. It simply does not exist in All Mail.

It's probably more long-winded if it's a mail sent from your gmail account, as then it has multiple labels attached, and possibly even more long-winded still if it's a few messages in a conversation. But still... I have a ten year old gmail account that I use for pretty much everything, and it's 0.14GB of 15GB used. Not sure what you're doing differently, but deleting works just fine here..

Dammit, now you guys have me worried about finding a house next year.

PopePalpatine wrote: »

The one thing that worries me about next year, above all else, is whether I'll be able to get a job over the summer in order to afford somewhere to rent, never mind being able to find a room.

that's an issue too! but rooms are ridiculously difficult to come by this year

Ravanelli wrote: »

Is the entire place closing down tomorrow like the departments etc? Is that the end of it?

Probably a silly question but I'm a final year student who is late on a couple of important assignments as it is and I'm about to go off my rocker completely.

Tomorrow, yes, it's Saturday. For the summer? No. Most lecturers should be around most of the time over the summer, except when they're on holidays. They may not be in the office full days, but they'll be around. The departmental secretaries should all be around too.

I HATE INTERGRATION MATHS

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Clinky link?