[This part 4 of a multi-part series – start here.] Now that we’ve painstakingly archived our online email history, it’s time to carefully protect it before we delete the online copies. Locating Your Profile Folder Assuming you used Thunderbird, it’s pretty easy to back up all of your emails (and contacts and anything else you […]
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[This is a multi-part series. Start here.] In the previous parts of this series, we’ve explained why finding old accounts is so important and then helped you build an exhaustive list of all your online accounts, including long-forgotten ones. Now it’s time to make sure those accounts are secure and take stock of the data
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[This Part 3 of a series – be sure to read Part 1 and Part 2, too.] While we’ve discussed how to backup your local data and data that’s primarily stored in the cloud, there are some other types of data that you may also want to make a personal, local copy of: data that
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[This Part 2 of a series – be sure to read Part 1 and Part 3, too.] Many of the services and apps we use today are based in the cloud. But what happens if that service goes down or even out of business? You could lose all that data forever. Where possible, you should
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[I turned this into a 3-part series – be sure to read Part 2 and Part 3, too.] If you own a Western Digital (WD) My Live Book backup drive, you may have had a rude awakening last week when you found all your data erased. (If you do have one, but haven’t been hit
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