#971 - How Do I Move Email to an External Hard Drive?
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Moving email around
With Microsoft's continuing efforts to make it harder to use their free services by suddenly restricting the amount of useful space in an Outlook.com account, one question that's come up a lot is "Can't I just make room by moving some of my email to my computer?"
Yes, but.
There are several good ways, but it's not as simple as asking Outlook.com to "please save stuff here". You need to install a desktop email program. Once you do that, however, almost anything is possible.
How Do I Move Email to an External Hard Drive? goes into the details.
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- How to boot from a USB thumbdrive and why it's become more complex.
- Getting rid of Edge.
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How Do I Move Email to an External Hard Drive?
Looking for solutions when you run out of space online.
The Outlook.com/OneDrive space limitation has many people looking for ways to download and preserve emails offline.
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| UEFI has made booting from something other than the hard drive more complex. I'll review why, and what steps to take. Read: How Do I Boot From a USB Thumb Drive? | |
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 | Should I Buy a New Computer to Fix Malware?Buying a new machine is a common knee-jerk reaction to a bad malware infestation. And it's wrong. Not just a little wrong -- it's completely unnecessary.Watch: Should I Buy a New Computer to Fix Malware? |
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