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Post by SporkBot on Jan 12, 2024 12:58:40 GMT -5
Maybe someone here with more relevant expertise could help with some clarity:
My Dad was on the phone with some guy, and he was looking through his AOL email...I guess he could find something he was supposedly sent. So he restarted his computer, goes back into his inbox, and there's the email...and I think two others just like it a little down the line (I didn't see the dates/hours, so they could've been from today).
Is this something that happens? Because I've never heard of "missing emails" appearing after a restart. It seems like it really shouldn't matter, seeing as the email account isn't necessarily part of the system. I'm not the most tech-savvy, so maybe I'm concerned over nothing. I brought it up with him, how unusual this felt, but he doesn't agree.
More context: the emails appear to be from a company looking to hire him; I looked them up and while not exactly famous, I'm don't think they're a scam.
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Post by Matrix Dragon on Jan 12, 2024 18:11:10 GMT -5
I suspect that restarting the computer made it actually reload the page instead of using the version it had cached.
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Post by iacon45 on Jan 12, 2024 18:30:02 GMT -5
I've had that happen with my microsoft email. For some reason, my browser for whatever reason will switch to a preview of a previously cached version of my inbox instead of a current view of it. This usually happens when my device loses internet connection (and my area does have crappy internet service). But when I refresh and the connection is reestablished, it will show me an up to date view of my inbox.
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Post by SporkBot on Jan 12, 2024 19:34:02 GMT -5
Okay, cool.
Later in the afternoon, things seemed a bit more legit, but well...Dad wouldn't want me going into details, but let's say that it's felt like whenever I left the house, like to the movies, I'd come back and something...amiss was going on. And I'd gone the grocery store, after deciding not to go to Mass this morning, so maybe God was all like, "was that Twitter argument with that a-hole that called you a p#do for no reason really worth it", but...
...okay, I'm getting a little off track.
So, yeah, I'm feeling better about this. Part of me is still waiting for the other shoe to drop, but I'd be glad to be proven wrong.
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Post by SporkBot on Jan 13, 2024 10:45:51 GMT -5
A thought occurred this morning...could an excess of saved emails have contributed to the issue as well?
'Cause, for whatever reason, he's retained A LOT of emails in his inbox, marking them unread.
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Post by iacon45 on Jan 13, 2024 11:33:10 GMT -5
A thought occurred this morning...could an excess of saved emails have contributed to the issue as well? 'Cause, for whatever reason, he's retained A LOT of emails in his inbox, marking them unread. I know some email services (especially the free ones) can impose limits to how many emails an account can receive and store. I never reached the limit on mine but I would think he would have gotten some kind of warning email or warning box pop up if he was getting close to that limit. If that limit is reached it can affect receiving and sending future emails until space is freed up. Not sure if that is what happened but I would definitely recommend he go in and clear out old emails he doesn't need anymore as well as clean out the junk/spam folder.
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Post by SporkBot on Jan 13, 2024 14:20:24 GMT -5
Thanks, appreciate the advice.
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Post by triumshockwave on Jan 16, 2024 19:41:49 GMT -5
This kind of stuff can happen whenever the state of the user interface is out of step with the actual data. This happens all the time, managing state in an application is really complex. Just restarting the app, or clearing the cache for a web app, often fixes it. It can be affected by the amount of data you're working with in a single view, since the more stuff there is, the more data it has to load at once, and the more likely shit is to break. Especially with web apps which have to call all the way back to some remote server for their data, and double especially if it's a web app that's being maintained by a bombed out husk like AOL.
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