{"id":32086,"date":"2021-04-07T16:42:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T20:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=32086"},"modified":"2021-04-15T14:39:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T18:39:47","slug":"new-outlooks-dangerous-discard-shortcut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/07\/new-outlooks-dangerous-discard-shortcut\/","title":{"rendered":"New Outlook&rsquo;s Dangerous &ldquo;Discard&rdquo; Shortcut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/new-outlook-keyboard-shortcuts\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/new-outlook-keyboard-shortcuts\/\">\n<p>Microsoft has two different versions of Outlook in the Outlook for Mac app. One of the keyboard shortcuts changed in New Outlook compared to the &ldquo;classic&rdquo; Outlook app is <code>Command&#x2013;Shift&#x2013;D<\/code>. In Apple&rsquo;s Mail app, this is  the shortcut for sending a message. In New Outlook, it discards the message you have just finished writing &mdash; without warning or confirmation &mdash; where it disappears into the aether.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/22\/new-look-outlook-shipping-in-october\/\">&ldquo;New Look&rdquo; Outlook Shipping in October<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"new-outlooks-dangerous-discard-shortcut-update-2021-04-15\">Update (2021-04-15): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/doublefeh\/status\/1379905605196898304\">Albert Andersen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/doublefeh\/status\/1379905605196898304\"><p>The good news is that &lsquo;discard&rsquo; is not data loss. That draft is sitting in your &lsquo;deleted items&rsquo; folder, ready to send. This is probably how it slipped through the cracks: it&rsquo;s not really gone, so doesn&rsquo;t meet the normal &lsquo;must prompt&rsquo; criteria.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nickheer\/status\/1379908271293702145\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nickheer\/status\/1379908271293702145\">\n<p>When I look in my Deleted Items folder, I see the drafts from when I tested this last night and just now, but none of the discarded drafts preserved the message text, and the subject line was only preserved in one.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/doublefeh\/status\/1379916501470224384\">Albert Andersen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/doublefeh\/status\/1379916501470224384\">\n<p>Looks like what ends up in the trash will be what was in the last auto save (~30 seconds) of the draft - it doesn&rsquo;t do an additional save before discarding. So&#8230; light data loss.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/doublefeh\/status\/1381997629299564544\">Albert Andersen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/doublefeh\/status\/1381997629299564544\">\n<p>We&rsquo;ve changed &lsquo;discard&rsquo; to cmd-escape (also closer to other outlooks which use plain esc) in beta ~Thursday and production next month.<\/p>\n<p>Prompting is still on the table too, but first we want to take a stab at making the workflow intelligibly undoable, see if we can make it work without another blocking alert.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Heer: Microsoft has two different versions of Outlook in the Outlook for Mac app. One of the keyboard shortcuts changed in New Outlook compared to the &ldquo;classic&rdquo; Outlook app is Command&#x2013;Shift&#x2013;D. In Apple&rsquo;s Mail app, this is the shortcut for sending a message. 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