[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 part 3 of a multi-part series – start here.] Before we purge our online email history, we should make sure we have a complete archive. Trust, but Verify In the last article, we started downloading all of our historical emails from Google (Gmail), Yahoo and/or Microsoft (Outlook). If you had years of emails, this
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[This part 2 of a multi-part series – start here.] Before we purge our online email history, we should make a complete and searchable backup. Blazing Trails Email apps, or “clients”, are designed primarily to send and receive emails. They also have the ability to store older emails, including searching them, organizing them into folders,
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For years, we’ve been depositing personal data into online accounts. And while it sits there, it’s not just stored – it may be analyzed, correlated, shared, monetized or leaked. It may be time to withdraw that data and put it somewhere safer. Let’s start with some of the oldest online data: email. Postcards, Not Letters
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