Mental block

[Icey]

I must be going simple! I tried to send a cute photo of a sleeping piglet via email a short while ago ... and couldn't remember how to transfer it from google images! I got there in the end, but it took me numerous tries before I realised that I'd been doing it all wrong. HOW many times have I sent pics before? How can a person forget such a straight-forward process?
Time for me to go to bed I think!

[yogi]

I find Google's way of doing things to be confusing in many instances. For example, I've had a G-mail account for so long that I can't remember when I got it. My contacts list is out of control and there is no logical way to manage it. I've tried several times over the years and can't get anywhere with it. Some people swear by it. Others swear at it.

[pilvikki]

the contacts list!!!

what a total cluster!

[yogi]

I like G-mail a lot. It has some awesome filters that keep the spam out of my INBOX. Unfortunately they try to tie it to all their other services I don't want to use which makes the one's I'm interested in difficult. Google+ used to make sense when it was first introduced, but now it's a nightmare of meaningless drivel. Even Facebook is better than what Google is doing. And that's a major concession on my part.

[Icey]

Why aren't contacts easily removed/updated? If you have the addresses of deceased friends/relatives, I find it upsetting to see them there when there's no more contact. : (

[yogi]

The contact list in G-mail can be manipulated. The problem is in trying to discover how to make it meet your needs and wants. I've not found a way yet, and I've had G-mail since it was introduced. There are people who claim it is manageable and they write articles on how to do it. By the time I find those instructions, Google changes it's methods and we are back to square one.

[Icey]

Typical. I think everyone has unwanted contacts. It just seems ridiculous that you can't simple click them off.

[pilvikki]

i went to send a thank you card for my neighbour, we email regularly, rather than phone. i dug up the gmail contact list - and no gord. so what exactly does ALL mean to gmail? i had to open a blank email form and start typing his name to have it come up!

that's just idiotic!

and yes, connot get rid of unwanted addresses of people i've never even heard of, n/m the dead ones...

[Icey]

Annoying, isn't it? I can't imagine ANYONE wanting to keep old and unwanted addresses. I've got quite a few still listed.

[pilvikki]

i have around 3-4 addresses for many people who for whatever reason have switched. you'd think one could at least assign a priority address, but hell no! if i've not used the address, i'm sitting there wondering and depending, maybe will send to all of them.

then i change the name to something like icey 1 to remind me. but what a nuisance if you need to do several.

[Icey]

Icey 1?

[pilvikki]

ok, I don't email my ex bil too often, but he has managed to change his email address 3 X, so when I do email him, I have to remember which tommy it is. so I changed his tommyb to This One.



if you had 5 addresses, the mail would be icy 1, rather than 'this one'.

[tomsk]

What annoys me is different bloody codes and symbols to remember to get any where in these modern times....jeez...

also going into a room and forgetting why you went in there in the first place....

[Icey]

Well I only have 2 email addresses where people can find me; my GMX one which's hardly ever used, and my usual.

[tomsk]

good for you..


I just got my e-mails back!
Hurrah..

[Icey]

I'll try it out in a bit.

[tomsk]

Go for it 007,
I'm still discovering the new system here at work..

[Icey]

Give me a few minutes then.

[tomsk]

ok Icey1!

[Icey]

Seems OK.