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How do you organize your work emails?
Poorly, despite all my best efforts.
I use Outlook. The scheme I've adopted over the last decade was to immediately delete anything that is clearly useless. If I can't make up my mind instantaneously, I keep it. Anything that is at least 6 months old (inbox, sent items) gets moved into a separate PST file named after the previous year (I do this purge twice a year, end of June and end of December). The older PST files aren't loaded, so Outlook still starts pretty fast.
On the few occasions where I need to search for something older than 6 months, I mount the file(s) for which I think the date range makes sense and search from there...then unmounts everything when I'm done. It's far from ideal, but it's an ok compromise between only keeping around recent/relevant things, and still having a full archive if I do need it.
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I use Outlook. Separate folders for each product line. A folder each for internal and personal stuff, plus one for my new boss. I manually sort things into the folders after they've been dealt with.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Hey, if you can't create a logical directory structure, don't come to me asking to manage any projects.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I haven't bothered with anything at my new job, but the most thought I put into when doing it at my old job was to figure out what to name the folder that announcements from the C*O's went into: At the time it was Pravda; in retrospect Isvestia Nyet Pravda would've been a more appropriate fit; which is why that place is my old job...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I wanted to reach some understanding about a few lines of code, and the one who wrote it is out of reach for now... So I wanted to see the date it was added/modified, to check in our bug tracking system if there is something related...
So I asked VS to annotate it...
Exactly before the block I interested in there are two lines I just added (10 minutes before), but VS annotated it to 06/03/2011...
How wonderful, now I can trust every date it shows...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Look what happened last time. That is why I have my own supply of brain fizz sat on my desk; don't trust them office admin.
veni bibi saltavi
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I'm immune. I drink coffee only if I must and then it usually is 95% milk.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I'm also immune: I rarely drink milk, and when I do it's usually 95% coffee...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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it is 100% coffee for me. No milk and sugar allowed (in my body...)
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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I'm not sure, but could it be that immune means something different when you live on an island?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Wales is not an island, despite numerous efforts to tow it out to sea and sink it with naval gunfire.
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Look what happened when you tried it with Ireland! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It all started very well, but then we found out they had Guinness, and changed our mind.
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Well, we've got ...
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... laverbread!
OK, OK. We've got chips.
Loads of chips. Sglodion even.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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So, in other words, you use coffee to enhance the flavor of yer milk. 
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If at all. I hate coffee.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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There are also still men of honor![^]
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Expressive painting one copper delayed (10)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Articulate
Painting: Art
one: i
copper: cu
delayed: late
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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And you are posting tomorrow!
Well done 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Today I suddenly realized that the re-org of my Chrome book marks I did yesterday somehow removed/deleted the entire huge collection of C# related links. Probably four months of adding new bookmarks gone bye-bye.
Gasp, shudder, quiver, uncontrollable weeping: Angel with flaming sword appears and carves the words "Did Not Back-up" into my flesh.
Chrome creates one bookmark back-up only, re-writing the current bookmark file each time you open it: [^].
I tried using the Recuva free version [^], which you point at the target folder, and, hot-damn, a few hours later I found recoverable files.
So, my hearties and homies, take a lesson from this tale, and do back-up those book-marks ... along with everything else.
cheers, Bill the Resurrected
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Glad to hear you managed to recover them
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I wasn't so lucky. Cleared some browser data and realised that I lost all my progress in a game. Recuva to the rescue. Unrecoverable. 
Other times I've had more succses but %appdata% seems more volitaile compared to discs other than c:\
The next time I'm switching discs I'll first run some shredder program on it and then see if anything can be recovered. Fun little experiment to see if you really managed to wipe it.
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Member 11683251 wrote: %appdata%
There's the problem.
Whenever possible, don't use %appdata%, %userprofile%, or %programfiles%.
Windows "controls" those directories, so if anything goes wrong, they suffer -- and %userprofile% in particular is likely to get screwed up by updates and OS refreshes.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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