The Cellar / Technology pissing me off today..

**Posted by Flint** 9/22/2025 11:45 am

glatt wrote:
... Outlook deletes actual entire emails from my inbox instead of typos in the search field because somehow the mailbox gets selected and then unknown unread emails are deleted. ... a box to uncheck deep in Outlook menu options, so hopefully I've blocked this feature. Can't be sure. ...

That's horrifying. What was the checkbox?

Last edited by Flint (9/22/2025 11:46 am)

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 9/22/2025 11:46 am

I think maybe the early years of devloping the computer and the internet were so successful that we got a really good result.
The thousands of experts are now trying to justify their pay and improve it.
It is not working. My first three computers (and their software) were mostly delights.
My current HP/Microsoft/Bing/Copilot/and? machine pisses me off constantly.

**Posted by glatt** 9/22/2025 12:08 pm

1. Disable Backspace Deletion in Reading Pane

Go to File > Options > Mail.
Scroll to Outlook Panes > Reading Pane.
Uncheck “Single key reading using space bar” if enabled (this prevents navigation that might lead to accidental deletion).

**Posted by fargon** 9/22/2025 12:30 pm

Go Google!!!

**Posted by Flint** 9/22/2025 1:28 pm

glatt wrote:
1. Disable Backspace Deletion in Reading Pane

Go to File > Options > Mail.
Scroll to Outlook Panes > Reading Pane.
Uncheck “Single key reading using space bar” if enabled (this prevents navigation that might lead to accidental deletion).

Cool, thank you.
I'm not on the same version-- I don't see this an an option to check/uncheck.

Also, the first thing I do with my Outlook client is TURN OFF THE READING PANE.
I only want a list of email titles (and the little preview of the first line). "Reading" an email is ONLY when I click on it-- there's no ambiguity.

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eta: Something is deeply troubling about this feature existing in the production run of a software that millions of people ar using. AcCiDeNtALLy deleting people's emails due to an inadvetant "navigation" because THE SPACE BAR has macro-features pinned to it. The ƒucking SPACE BAR.

And-- THEY DIDN'T TEST THIS. Nobody TESTED the software-- "using the software like an end user" .. or they would have noticed this.

Microsoft is releasing BETA software. I know this is true because MS Teams can't add words to the dictionary. They released it in Beta, planning to (maybe) fix features later, like a video game developer.

Last edited by Flint (9/22/2025 2:01 pm)

**Posted by glatt** 9/23/2025 7:15 am

It's nuts. I wasted an hour or two yesterday trying to figure out what was going on.

**Posted by tw** 9/23/2025 11:25 am

Shotgun the problem. 12 gauge shells are cheap.

**Posted by Flint** 9/23/2025 1:36 pm

Flint wrote:
... MS Teams can't add words to the dictionary. ...

New solution to this issue just dropped-- users won't have to worry about Teams inability to add words to the dictionary because IT JUST DOESN'T DO A SPELLCHECK ANYMORE. Problem "solved"

**Posted by fargon** 9/23/2025 4:16 pm

Flint wrote:
Flint wrote:
... MS Teams can't add words to the dictionary. ...
New solution to this issue just dropped-- users won't have to worry about Teams inability to add words to the dictionary because IT JUST DOESN'T DO A SPELLCHECK ANYMORE. Problem "solved"

That sux.

**Posted by glatt** 9/24/2025 6:58 am

I don't know what is going on, but it feels like the enshittification is taking over in many walks of life these days. Did Covid make everyone just not care? I include myself in that. I find myself feeling that way.

**Posted by fargon** 9/24/2025 9:00 am

I don't care anymore, just because their a'int nothing you can do about it any ways.