Hotmail infuriation with over-written drafts

webecedarian · 10 Jun 2017, 11:29 AM

Once upon a time, email drafts in Hotmail worked like typing into Word documents. If you screwed something up, you could simply close out and start over. Or you could "save as" with a different title.

However, at some point, Hotmail switched - at least for me. If something gets screwed up - for me, notably, if you highlight something and mistakenly paste instead of copy - you lose your draft. It automatically saves, over-writing your original.

But before I start ranting at them - is there some way around this, some option or function that I can change, to stop this?

digp · 11 Jun 2017, 06:48 AM

Yes, stop using them

jdtaylor · 13 Jun 2017, 06:35 AM

I don't know, but hotmail and owa are very similar systems. If you have access to owa see if the problem occurs there to.

10 Jun 2017, 11:29 AM	#1
webecedarian Essential Contributor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: NYC Posts: 479	Hotmail infuriation with over-written drafts Once upon a time, email drafts in Hotmail worked like typing into Word documents. If you screwed something up, you could simply close out and start over. Or you could "save as" with a different title. However, at some point, Hotmail switched - at least for me. If something gets screwed up - for me, notably, if you highlight something and mistakenly paste instead of copy - you lose your draft. It automatically saves, over-writing your original. But before I start ranting at them - is there some way around this, some option or function that I can change, to stop this?

11 Jun 2017, 06:48 AM	#2
digp Master of the @ Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 1,320	Yes, stop using them

13 Jun 2017, 06:35 AM	#3
jdtaylor Master of the @ Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 1,692	I don't know, but hotmail and owa are very similar systems. If you have access to owa see if the problem occurs there to.