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How do you personally archive and back up old emails?
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Michigan
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I wanted to do some cleaning and thought I would back up my messages in my library / mail folders. Then I realized that emails are saved - but only have a number for its file name. If I were to have to try to go through and find and old email via 1000's I would go insane. How do you guys back up your old emails so- if needed you could find them quickly?
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Jan 2001
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Mail seems fine with the thousands upon thousands of emails I've imported into it fro Eurora, as well as the thousands I've received since. I back up my Users folder daily, so if anything ever does go south, I've got the whole shmeer (including mail's database) on my backup drive.
I had a problem once where Mail was crashing upon moving junkmail into the junk forlder, but a quick Google search found the answer to that -- otherwise it's been really trouble-free.
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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. -- Jonathan Swift.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
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I don't archive emails, I leave them on my IMAP account, in dedicated folders, and and have Apple Mail download copies locally. Those local copies are then also backed up by TimeMachine.
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This is probably a first for me -- moving a technical topic into the Lounge, but I think it's general enough and doesn't fit OS X, Applications or other sections.
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
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My current Mail.app inbox has several thousand messages in it, and Mail is as snappy as ever, so I don't worry about it.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Sep 2000
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I keep most emails on the server, but I back them up anyway (actually twice).
Time Machine and a manual backup as well.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2000
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I use Entourage. Twice a year I just back up the database, unless something SO important comes in that I need to back it up earlier.
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I have Gmail as my main email so no problems here with worrying about running out of room or backing up emails.
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