I thought it was a myth, but it's really true

iforgotmydisplayname · 2013-11-01T13:06:34.000Z

People actually put e-mails in their deleted items folders to store them.

jamesallen13 · 2013-11-01T13:08:17.000Z

Yep, I’ve experienced that as well.

schimke · 2013-11-01T13:09:00.000Z

We get that all the time… rather than make other folders they allow thier inbox to get filled with junk mail and fill the deleted items with the good stuff!

swearyprincess · 2013-11-01T13:09:19.000Z

Only two things are unlimited - stupidity, and the facepalms caused by stupidity.

And even the second might not be if our collective arms get too tired.

adamprice · 2013-11-01T13:09:32.000Z

Thats the first time only?

My goodness your gonna see it many more times in your career, usually with the most powerfull people like CFO’s

jimmy-t · 2013-11-01T13:09:56.000Z

Hmm, storing items in the deleted folder. Guess hitting the button that says “empty deleted items” folder is never touched.

gilesc · 2013-11-01T13:10:57.000Z

yup, I regularly come across that.

“Because that’s where i keep it all”

dcharavay · 2013-11-01T13:12:09.000Z

Don’t forget about the Recycle Bin. It is intended for storage also.

sgriggs · 2013-11-01T13:13:37.000Z

“I hold on to it in case I need it.” So… store it in a folder!

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bob-13 · 2013-11-01T13:13:39.000Z

Yeah, it’s true.

Albert Einstein — ‘Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.’

johnathonwgw · 2013-11-01T13:15:10.000Z

Seen this several times. We auto empty the deleted items folder every 24 hours here so it only happens when new employees start.

hgoode7381 · 2013-11-01T13:15:21.000Z

Adam2595 our CFO opens and saves each individual email to our file server. Than deletes them out of his outlook.

bear7079 · 2013-11-01T13:16:05.000Z

I always tell them that anything in the deleted box is considered trash. if i need to clean up space on your mailbox that is my first target. especially if it is 3GB of you mailbox limit.

Do not ever save items there as it can be deleted at any time. Is my lesson to the users on that.

If you are on exchange see if they are in the deleted recovery box??? You can sometimes recover the majority of it.

charlie · 2013-11-01T13:16:52.000Z

Oh it’s totally true. I had a user who did this. Then when we moved away from Exchange to Google Apps and suddenly it only kept 30 days of deleted items, she totally flipped out. I had suggested to her previously that storing items in her deleted items folder was not the best choice, but I guess she learned her lesson the hard way.

schimke · 2013-11-01T13:17:19.000Z

We have users that exceed 30,000 emails in there time on our campus. They are all in the deleted items…

ssmith207 · 2013-11-01T13:18:11.000Z

I had this happen at my last job where user’s mailboxes were limited to 2gb. They figured out that email in the deleted items doesnt count towards your total mailbox size.

So we implemented a rule that emptied their deleted items every 15 days

swearyprincess · 2013-11-01T13:19:19.000Z

Hgoode:

Adam2595 our CFO opens and saves each individual email to our file server. Than deletes them out of his outlook.

Apologies for the profanity, but what the FUCK?!? How do these people manage to do anything?

mkokkaliaris · 2013-11-01T13:20:04.000Z

smh

raymondpayne · 2013-11-01T13:20:41.000Z

That is funny. Sadly far more common of an indicator of many end users, but funny non the less.

jakebudde3225 · 2013-11-01T13:23:19.000Z

I wonder sometimes how these people manage to get to work each morning.