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| Thread ID: 110074 | 2010-06-02 07:03:00 | Any of you archive (personal) emails? | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1106110 | 2010-06-02 07:03:00 | Hi, any of you do it? Just out of interest . I have kept my emails since the late 90s :D the odd occasion I have lost some weeks of email due to computer issues or user issues . . . lol . Cheers . |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1106111 | 2010-06-02 07:13:00 | I do. Use Outlook and curently have 5136 items. And backup my PST file on a daily basis. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 1106112 | 2010-06-02 07:16:00 | I archive everything, since early 2004 :D. It all lives in compressed maildir tarballs, and also on Google's servers. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 1106113 | 2010-06-02 07:32:00 | I just don't bother deleting emails :p | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1106114 | 2010-06-02 07:40:00 | Got everything going back to 2004 in three or four big PST files. Dunno why I bother keeping the Gmail emails locally though - they're all accessible via the web ("You are currently using 1251MB (16%) of your 7461MB"). Handy for the other accounts I use though... |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1106115 | 2010-06-02 08:17:00 | Gmail makes it easy to archive all my important email. My hotmail account is just full of crap. There is a gmail uploader app that can upload your outlook archive to Gmail. |
Greven (91) | ||
| 1106116 | 2010-06-02 08:21:00 | No my inbox is usually cleared weekly, I don't have anything that I would need to keep forever. passwords delivered via email are stored on paper in a safe place, and since I don't run a business I have nothing that needs keeping | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1106117 | 2010-06-02 08:25:00 | Is the information really that useful? I could probably delete 99% of my email from 3 months back and earlier and I wouldn't miss it. If it's work emails then it's more useful to keep for up to a year. | Orca (3098) | ||
| 1106118 | 2010-06-02 08:50:00 | Got everything going back to 2004 in three or four big PST files. Proprietary formats are generally not a good idea for archives that you may want access to in future. When MS changes it's PST format (again) and the old version of Outlook will no longer install / activate, all you will have is 4 big binary blobs. In reality, for PST there are (currently) quite a few third party tools to extract data, and it probably wouldn't be too difficult to recover, and it may not be a big loss for you if you couldn't. However, when archiving important stuff, care should be taken to ensure it is in a format that can be read at some time in the future with basic / easily available tools. |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1106119 | 2010-06-02 09:08:00 | Back to 1998 (transferred from OE) is available in my Thunderbird. But only family emails and significant business such as subscriptions, registrations, serial numbers. Couple of times a year clean out obsolete & closed material. Also Archive in 'MailStore' which is useful for rapid searches. Once a month save Thunderbird complete but only keep last 3 months of those plus one from end of each year. | coldot (6847) | ||
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