[Magdalen] Computer Disaster

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

If you have Gmail, use the search window to search for some word you can
predict is likely to be junk. That way, you can delete chunks of useless
stuff. Just do a little bit each day. In time, you will get through it.

Also, use the filter function to create labels for different subjects, and
when you create these labels, direct that they skip the inbox. Then, click
on the box which directs it to refile all present messages into that inbox.

If you wish to read everything and not overlook anything, I don't know how
you can do it other than to just keep on, a bit at a time. I personally
decided to let a lot of stuff go. For instance, important stuff from a few
months ago all just gets tossed. If it's important, someone will email me
again.

If I find there is important stuff that I'm not reading, I unsubscribe. The
only thing that stuff in my inbox was good for was to make me feel guilty
for not making the time to read it. Bye bye....


James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 3:44 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> My computer had to be re-thinged and everything reinstalled. That includes
> my Facebook account that was running on a long-defunct address, not my
> current one.  I haven't given up FB for Lent or anything.  I will happily
> accept offers of friendship and if you get one from me, please accept.  I
> have not been hacked!!!
>
> My email is a disaster area.  Yes, everything was saved -- in one huge
> undifferentiated mass like the grains of sand on a beach. Everything.
> Archives, folder contents, everything rolled into one.  Some 98K of them.
> Useful stuff like my address book -- gone, just like the folders
> themselves.  Inbox now has 90K or so, All Mail has 92,395, Important 4448.
>
> I don't know what to do!
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
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