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| Thread ID: 114461 | 2010-12-03 22:16:00 | Do many of you back up your Thunderbird emails | Digby (677) | Press F1 |
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| 1158560 | 2010-12-04 02:42:00 | And wonder why next time they check email, its either corrupt or it wont open :p | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1158561 | 2010-12-04 02:44:00 | Use Outlook and backup the PST file too. | Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1158562 | 2010-12-04 05:12:00 | What I do is: If the attachment is necessary I save the file to my HDD. If the mail is important (and 90% aren't), but say, a bill not yet paid or like my lawyers letter when we bought the house, stuff like that - I print it or save the contents into a Word doc and save to HDD. I NEVER keep emails. In all the places I've ever worked it amazes me the people who think their email folder is a kind of HDD storage facility. Same here my inbox usually just contains this weeks emails that need attention and they get deleted once they are actioned. However I do backup the pst file since it contains my address book and calendar as well |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1158563 | 2010-12-04 05:52:00 | Thanks guys I must be a sad case. I never have time to save them to a word file. And I have emails going back fro years. Its a bit like my shed ! - full of junk. Nethertheless I still think Thunderbird could offer a built in backup system ! |
Digby (677) | ||
| 1158564 | 2010-12-04 08:32:00 | What I do is: If the attachment is necessary I save the file to my HDD. If the mail is important (and 90% aren't), but say, a bill not yet paid or like my lawyers letter when we bought the house, stuff like that - I print it or save the contents into a Word doc and save to HDD. I NEVER keep emails. In all the places I've ever worked it amazes me the people who think their email folder is a kind of HDD storage facility. I create a folder to hold emails I want to keep and delete all others. Like you I can't understand why people keep 1000's of emails going back years which they will never need again. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1158565 | 2010-12-04 08:37:00 | If you get a lot of Tech papers like I do a PST file is a searchable database which is why I keep same. | Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1158566 | 2010-12-04 18:00:00 | And I have emails going back fro years. ! Why??!! Anyway you can back up Thunderbird. Or just use Mozbackup. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1158567 | 2010-12-04 19:40:00 | Nope... I use MS Outlook, since everything sits on a single PST file, I just back that up :thumbs: :punk Same here. Another thing to remember here is that you need to decide what you're backing up in terms of relevant emails. I would say that between 80-90% of emails don't need to be kept and can be deletes straight away. I have a PST file which I started in September 09 and it's only just hit 100MB, it is stored on my server and I move any relevant emails to it when neccessary, same goes for contacts etc. The rest of the emails get binned once read. Cheers, |
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