Sometimes when I have Outlook empty a folder, it says “22 minutes …”  and locks me up until it finishes.  In a database, one would get such bad performance by joining large tables without benefit of proper indexes.  Is there something not happening that could let simple message delete happen at “click speed” instead of this? 

Like so many people nowadays, I get hundreds and hundreds of emails, mostly from people I don’t know.  Generally, I make rules to intercept new mail and send it to an appropriate folder, and then at end of day scan the hundreds of emails (or worse!) still left in the inbox, in case something new-ish has appeared, before deleting them all.

Deleting the undesirables from the inbox – both focused and other – often takes two to four minutes.    After a week away, the wait  may be several times that!  Normally, ugly data delays are from missing or out-of-date index structures. Is there something I could do differently and thus “work” the system better?

​Sometimes when I have Outlook empty a folder, it says “22 minutes …”  and locks me up until it finishes.  In a database, one would get such bad performance by joining large tables without benefit of proper indexes.  Is there something not happening that could let simple message delete happen at “click speed” instead of this?  Like so many people nowadays, I get hundreds and hundreds of emails, mostly from people I don’t know.  Generally, I make rules to intercept new mail and send it to an appropriate folder, and then at end of day scan the hundreds of emails (or worse!) still left in the inbox, in case something new-ish has appeared, before deleting them all. Deleting the undesirables from the inbox – both focused and other – often takes two to four minutes.    After a week away, the wait  may be several times that!  Normally, ugly data delays are from missing or out-of-date index structures. Is there something I could do differently and thus “work” the system better?   Read More

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