Geotag Information

22. August 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: , , ,

My photos have both geotags and location information (i.e. city, county, state, etc.) stored in EXIF on the files.

 

When files are imported, this descriptive information generally comes across and is stored in the 'geotag' fields in WPG. So far so good.

 

However it seems that over time, WPG takes it upon itself to re-interpret the EXIF geotags for some (but not all) photos and to change the descriptive details appearing in WPG to something different to what is held in EXIF. This would be fine, except that it does not appear to do so in a consistent way. One would expect it to follow consistent ISO standards for the hierarchy of administrative and location levels within each jurisdiction, i.e. 'country', 'state/province', 'county', 'city', 'location', etc. when mapping geotags to location details.

 

The apparently random incidence of this means that photos are not then grouped together correctly when using the 'Geotag' view.

 

Where, exactly, does WPG get its location mapping data from, and what if any standards does this conform to? And is there any way to inhibit it from amending these details unbidden?

This caused the font to become very small. How do I return the original state?

31. December 2012 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: , , , ,
 I hit either the shift or control key quite a few times when thinking I was hitting the enter button. I am using Hotmail on a desktop using Windows 98.

Signing in with Hotmail on Skype – Almost all Hotmail contacts deleted from both services.

03. December 2012 · Write a comment · Categories: Messenger · Tags: , , , ,
I tried syncing Skype with my Hotmail account several times, but the first few times I had to try it by logging on with the Microsoft account (my Hotmail address) on my phone's Skype app, as it would not show on my PC.

 After several failed attempts over several days, it ONCE finally showed my Hotmail contacts on my Skype (before that I first logged on with my Hotmail on Skype then the Skype address, and only the Skype contacts would show). The contacts from both services showed after this. 

This was a one-time experience, and after that it stopped syncing properly and it returned to its previous state, with only my Skype contacts showing on my Skype account. However, this time, almost all of my Hotmail contacts had also been deleted when I tried logging on using the Windows Live Messenger and Hotmail.com. 

My ONLY contacts still left on my Hotmail account are people who have a Yahoo.com account rather than Hotmail. Anyone using a different provider has been removed from my contacts list, which I believe strongly to be an issue caused by the syncing of Skype and Hotmail. 

My question put simply: 
Is there any way for me to restore my contacts list to the way it was before all non-Yahoo contacts got deleted, and how?


I thank you for your time and will await a response.

Sincerely,
Andrew

Exchange Calendars won’t Sync

19. November 2012 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: , , , , , , ,
Hello-

I work at a technical university and I have one mac user who's shared calendar's will not sync. They go to the gray disconnected state and will not longer sync. This happened about a week and a half ago, so I create a new identity and painstakingly moved 20GB of archived mail into mbox format and reimported them into her new identity. 

This held for a week, and now they are disconnected again. Since I cannot delete an re-add the calendars, only remove them from view. How do you propose a force a sync? It took me over 6 hours to everything back up for her and even longer for her to finish re-importing her mail.

What other suggestions can I try since she just called and said the calendars were again disconnected again? Creating a new identity for her is not an option?

Honestly the archived mail is really the issue, our university recently enabled the server side archiving, and OUtlook for Mac would show those folders, then I wouldn't worry about resetting her identity every time she had a problem. However since I can only make a back up of EVERYTHING on the server, not just the folders I choose, so I have to export the folders by drag and drop (since if you export a folder of mail folders, it doesn't export it).

I am open to all suggestions.


buttons slow

11. September 2012 · Write a comment · Categories: Outlook for Mac · Tags: , , , , , ,
As I move my mouse over the buttons at the top of any screen (mail, calendar, etc) it takes on average 1/2 second for the software to actually update the button state, so, for example if I'm simply moving towards the send/receive button and pass over a few other buttons on the way it can take a long while to actually register the click as all button states seem to have to be drawn before the next one is implemented.

If I wiggle my mouse over a few buttons, back and forth, it just adds them all up and can take 20 or 30 second before the software becomes active again.

It has been like this for over a year now, from Mac Os Leopard up to ML now.  And also through a good few version of Outlook.

I've been using Mail and Calendar, but I really like having mail and cal in one place.

Anyone have this problem too, any solutions?

B.

How to keep obscene emails from my account?

22. August 2012 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: , , , ,
I continually get obscene emails in my junk mail. They are titled the same way each time. Every time they show up I "block" them using the sweeping process, which supposedly blocks them from returning, yet return they do.  My 12 year old shares  my email address, so I am in a constant state of  vigil to be sure that she isn't exposed to the offensive title of these emails. How do I permanently rid my account of  these disgusting emails once and for all?

Unable to access Hotmail account

09. July 2012 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail · Tags: , , , , , ,

In trying to recover my e-mail account is difficult because it was way too many years ago that I opened it up and the country state and zip code I'm not sure where I opened the account, in the US or Mexico, also the secret question is not correct because it asks me for my grandfathers occupation and he's been dead for years, I always put a pets name or something easier, what else can I do to regain it back since I have all my business clients information in this account, call me if you can or I can call you and I will answer anything you ask me, I hate not speaking with someone.

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Original title: Frustration, stressful and upsetting to have my acct hacked, this is not fair!
Windows 7 / IE9

Security Worry:

20. June 2012 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail · Tags: , , , ,
My account is set to Contacts Only, now all of a sudden I am getting spam in my inbox. A deep scan state no virus present. I use Bitdefender Premium firewall and anti virus program and the OS is XP Pro. Can someone help please

Can’t receive email from IMAP server with self-signed certificate

31. May 2012 · Write a comment · Categories: Uncategorized · Tags: , , , , , , , ,
It appears that Outlook 2011 (up to date with patches) will not receive mail from a server with a self-signed (and therefore not trusted) certificate. When I send mail I am prompted to trust it or not: This works, but when Outlook is quit and relaunched, the trusted state is forgotten (this might be a problem with Apple Keychain).  It's an annoyance, but at least I can send mail.

In receiving, I am not prompted at all, and no mail arrives. No error is written to the Errors window. Also, when sending or receiving, Outlook usually has a progress indicator in the lower right.  It's there for sending, but nothing happens at all when I click "send & receive" and there's nothing to send.

When I select Tools > IMAP Folders, the server appears on the left, but no folders appear on the right. (I can view them in Apple Mail.) I have compared my settings to a document I maintain of email server settings, and everything matches. The server does not use nonstandard port numbers.

And finally, I noted that when I view the settings in the Preferences window there is a yellow dot next to the server name. I'm assuming that yellow means a problem is indicated.