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This reply is because you really leave me no choice. None whatsoever.
For the benefit of others, should your fingers fall off, please make sure that is documented, as well.
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So, just seconds ago, I pulled the trigger and deleted permanently all my deleted mail. Funny to think about how rare an event that is. I mean, I did delete it - I didn't want it and didn't think I ever would because, if I did, I'd shove it in some folder and forget it there, instead.
Do you others also hesitate to complete this tension-fraught job?
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Delete, permanently? Who does that? Outlook archives stuff for me so I don't have too many items to search, etc. Old emails take up negligible space, whyever delete them?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Well - that's somehow built into the question, or conversely, why not delete them permanently.
Anything worth keeping is put someplace specific. Ultimately, if you just endless keep deleted email, isn't it like "those people" who fill their desktop with so many icons is obscures the point of having desktop icons.
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Forogar wrote: whyever delete them?
Ask Hillary Clinton
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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I do that all the time.
It goes in my bin, which permanently deletes it after 30 days.
I keep pretty much all work mail and most personal mail, but newsletters, order confirmations, build status updates, etc. go right into the bin folder (after having read them).
Or mail like "here's my contact details". I create a Contact, save the details there and delete the mail.
Sometimes even mails with attachments that I should read. I download the attachment, put it where it belongs (like source control or ticketing system) and delete the mail.
That said, I still nearly have around 3000 mails saved since 2010.
Everything before that time somehow got lost when I took a new email address and apparently(?) purged my old account.
I have no idea what happened, but it was quite a shock when I found out at the time.
However, I can't say I ever missed any of those deleted mails, I think we keep them mostly for a little piece of mind and "just in case".
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I don't do soft-delete's. Shift-delete all the way! 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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You and me both. Shift-Del is now so deeply ingrained in my way of doing things, the thought of just using Del by itself never even crosses my mind.
In the past 20+ years, there's maybe one time I wished I could've just gone to the recycle bin and retrieved something back out of it. Instead, I went to my backup set.
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I regularly purge my Trash and Sent Mail folders.
/ravi
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Some of us are AR (anally retentive) about cleaning up our work space. Besides the automatic 30 day cleanup I will happily empty the trash and junk folders whenever I like, often when the hind brain is working on a problem.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Do you others also hesitate to complete this tension-fraught job?
Nothing to worry about, because they ain't gone, yet.
They stay in the PST until you compact it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I saw the video. Not a real solution, especially when your MRu list has a LOT of items in it.
The Git posting didn't have any answers that I could see
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\15.0_2caad97f\ApplicationPrivateSettings.xml (take a backup) (the path should be similar to this 15.something)
use an visual xml editor traverse to -- CodeContainers.Offline and clear the values in the value (they are the mru) -- open vs and they are gone the mru
-<collection name="CodeContainers.Offline"><value name="value">
/content/indexed/collection[14]/@name
/content/indexed/collection[14]/value[1]
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Kevin Marois wrote: Anyone know of a simple way to clear the MRU in VS2017?
This trick has always worked for me:
- Temporarily rename the folder containing an MRU item.
- Attempt to open the MRU item from VS20xx.
- VS20xx will ask you if you want to remove the MRU item it can no longer find. Select Yes.
/ravi
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Sure, if you wan to do that once for EVERY item.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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/ravi
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Works well. It does clear the lists, but it seems to be an All-Or-Nothing process. Still, it's a far cry better.
Thnaks
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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But you have new refreshed icons. That should count for something.
In the end, it sounds like you're going to have to uninstall/reinstall VS2017...
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#realJSOP wrote: In the end, it sounds like you're going to have to uninstall/reinstall VS2017...
Well that would be par for the course with M$ Software$hitware
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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It might be that they integrated the MRU totally in with the win7 shell MRU stuff. It kinda looks like it based on the jumplist. If so, you couldn't clear it without also clearing those files out of your "Recent Documents" and other areas where doc history is kept.
I'm not sure they do it this way. I've never looked into it. But it's a possibility. Maybe try clearing your recent docs if windows will let you. see what happens.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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What I don't get is WHY????
It's just a list of files.. It's not like it's encrypted data or CC numbers or something... it's just a list of files..
REALLLLLY DUMB 'feature'
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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wasn't me
*looks guilty*
i worked on windows before, but not the shell itself.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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