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Google Docs bumps up free storage to 5GB, primes servers for Drive? — Engadget

 

Google 的貼牌冰箱(Google refrigerator)
Google 的貼牌冰箱(Google refrigerator) (Photo credit: Aray Chen)

Google Docs bumps up free storage to 5GB, primes servers for Drive? — Engadget. Interesting strategy to alienate customers. Why not offer the people who have supported your company the same extra 5GB? It just doesn’t make sense to treat customers this way.

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Anyone got a spam email that said they wanted to buy your domain?

Onthuld! Waar spam wordt geboren
Onthuld! Waar spam wordt geboren (Photo credit: Erwin Boogert)

Has anyone got a spam email that said they wanted to buy your domain? I received that today as a generic email sent to my primary email account. I deleted it of course, because it is silly that someone would want to buy my domain. I don’t have enough traffic to make it worthwhile for a commercial interest. Spammers are getting more creative in trying to verify addresses aren’t they?

Also is anyone else getting spam emails from Poland and other countries? Is it just me, or  has spam been less Nigerian money scams and more attempts to exploits public information?

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Gmail Badge won’t update: Apple Support Communities

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Gmail Badge won’t update: Apple Support Communities. Nice solution by Scott Nash. I wonder if this is a weakness with Lion Mail?

Ok.  With the help of tech support, I managed to fix this problem.  Since I’m clearly NOT a moron who just doesn’t know what I’m doing, I suspect it’s possible others might have the same problem.  The issue was the envelope index file in the library.

~library/mail/v2/mail data/envelope index

If you delete that file it forces a ‘deep rebuild’ that recollects ALL your metadata.  It does not have recall your data from the servers, just the hard drive so it’s pretty quick.  After about four minutes of rebuilding, all my stuff reappeared and the badges were correct.

This is similar, but more extensive than the ‘rebuild’ at the bottom of the mailbox menu.  That didn’t work, but this did.

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