Missing. Lost. Gone: The urban edition
The other day, when I opened my laptop to access my two email accounts, I couldn’t believe my eyes. The one account was empty — totally empty. The other was, as I expected, full of messages. Oh my goodness, what had I done? Both email accounts are also on my phone; however, only one is synched with the laptop version. At least, that’s what I had thought. With my original account, if I read a message on one device, it shows as ‘read’ on the other. With the other account, this is not the case: every message in that account, opened or read on one device, is as if never opened or read on the other. Therefore, I had thought it perfectly safe to tidy up that account on my phone, as it was sucking precious memory capacity from the (very) old operating system: Select all, I had commanded. Edit. Delete. Sure? Yes, sure. And, poof, gone from my phone. But safe still on my laptop, thought I. Until I saw that it wasn’t. And isn’t that just how it goes? A little knowledge — erroneous in this case —