{"id":626,"date":"2012-12-14T23:45:19","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T23:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/?p=626"},"modified":"2013-06-15T13:07:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T12:07:10","slug":"hotmailoutlook-refuses-to-open-mail-or-folders-temporary-workaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/12\/2012\/hotmailoutlook-refuses-to-open-mail-or-folders-temporary-workaround\/","title":{"rendered":"Hotmail\/Outlook Refuses to Open Mail or Folders – Temporary Workaround"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have problems loading folders or e-mails in Outlook.com\/hotmail you’re not the only one.<\/p>\n

In the last couple of weeks I noticed this problem on my personal hotmail account; I would repeatedly click e-mails and folders whilst watching that annoying ‘load bar’ scroll across the top of the page.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Launching up Firebug and clicking on a folder threw up some console errors and further investigations show that it was not a ‘one-off’ incident.<\/p>\n

\"Firebug<\/a><\/p>\n

When I queried this problem on the Microsoft forums, my post was immediately ‘1-upped’ by another user who had the same issue so I suspect this is a widely experienced problem with hotmail\/Outlook users.<\/p>\n

I noticed this problem would only occur when I had an empty inbox (I have an OCD about keeping my stuff organised :)) so a temporary workaround would be any one of the following:<\/p>\n

1. Send yourself an e-mail and don’t be OCD about it – leave it in the inbox and you should be able to browse your folders and e-mails as usual<\/p>\n

2. Change your browser useragent so that it looks like you’re coming from a mobile browser – you won’t have this issue whilst browsing on the mobile page which I guess would indicate some sort of client side issues with the new interface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you have problems loading folders or e-mails in Outlook.com\/hotmail you’re not the only one. In the last couple of weeks I noticed this problem on my personal hotmail account; I would repeatedly click e-mails and folders whilst watching that annoying ‘load bar’ scroll across the top of the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[83,84],"class_list":["post-626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-hotmail","tag-outlook"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1trTO-a6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emtunc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}