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richms:

--- Quote from: Cakemeister on January 25, 2009, 03:17:06 pm ---
--- Quote from: richms on January 24, 2009, 11:25:46 am ---I make gmail accounts to back important things up to that are documents etc - just configure it as imap in outlook, and then make a new post in the folder, attach the files, and save it.

Can get it via web or outlook in the future. Just watch the pst file size when doing it - over a couple of gigs and outlook starts to sulk...

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Would you please elaborate (more details) on this? I would like to do something like this.


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Just go to gmail and make a new account - I called mine something like richards.documents or something.

Go into settings, enable imap, and set it up in outlook.

Then you can make folders in it in outlook.

To put a file into it, highlight the folder on the left, and go to new, then choose post.

That opens the mail compose window but without a to: field

Then just attach files to it, and hit post - it will chug away for a while saving it to gmail and the local pst file, and then you just log into gmail via the web, go to the folder and there is your message with files attached.

Sadly you cannot edit the messages, but choosing compose reply and then attaching new stuff makes it relativly easy to find in there.

richms:
no idea what happened there, i got an error to resubmitted it and it appeared without my words...

Dartful Dodger:
It’s not just computers, as technology gets smarter we get dumber.

The only calls my parents get on their home phone is telemarketing calls, so last month they cancelled it.

Not counting my own, that was the only phone number I knew by heart.

In school we were taught NOT to use calculators, now the classes revolve around different makes and models.

Kevin Mullins:

--- Quote from: richms on January 26, 2009, 12:29:26 pm ---no idea what happened there, i got an error to resubmitted it and it appeared without my words...

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Dang ol' pooters and that interweb ya know..... :angry:

Cakemeister:
Mozy has gotten favorable reviews as a free online backup service.

http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/07/online-backup-solutions-a-review.ars/2

If you have more than 2GB of storage you can pay for unlimited storage. But 2GB should be enough to back up irreplaceable files.

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