Outlook: Crashing my computer

[Generalissimo]

Whenever I load outlook it basically crashes my computer, which has 1gb of ram, and a really fast processor. Why? I think because I have about 20,000 emails in my inbox. How do I make it do pages or something to stop it crashing my computer?

[MarkB]

Do you have email preview box turned on? It could be that the first email has some content which causes your machine to freeze.

I don't know if you can disable that without actually having Outlook open or not, though...

[r2d2]

Do you have the 20,000 split down into folders?

[Generalissimo]

No, all in the inbox.

[Blue Cat Buxton]

That could be why then - why don't set up auot archive and move some of them out of the inbox? (or delete some)

[r2d2]

No, all in the inbox.

Ouch! Likely to be why Outlook comes to a standstill.

Why dont you split them down for each of your websites, each of the different 'deals' you work with (Adsense, Adwords, AWS, CJ, etc) etc. You can set up rules so that they get sent to the appropriate folder as soon as they arrive, to save you having to do it manually (And even more useful for you, you can tell new rules to run on the existing mails in your inbox.)

[Generalissimo]

How would I make a rule to make it make folders for each month, such as November 2004, December 2004, January 2005, etc.

[r2d2]

You could do that by putting them in date order and selecting, then move to the appropriate folder. I cant see a rule that operates by date. Bit of an unusual way to organise them - are you sure you wouldnt want to split them up into AWS, Google, hosting, and folders for each site etc? Then you could just put the View->Arrange by->Show in Groups within each folder to separate into date more visibly.

[Blue Cat Buxton]

On my version, Outlook 2000 there is a 'specifc date' filter (on the second pane) of the rules wizard. But this would involve setting up lots of rules, so r2's sort method would probably be less work.

Actually, thinkg about it, why not split the previous stuff into years and then just do it monthly for 2005 onwards? I run my outlook in yearly batches, but then with meaningful folders - ie per project or whatever in each year. - keeps everything manageable that way