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Originally Posted by 905home
I just started a Gmail account. Can I save old (i.e. already read) emails forever and ever? I have about 5000 emails now in my Thunderbird email program which I back up on to an external hard drive once a month. Seeing as how Gmail is web-based, does that mean I can keep emails there without backing up? The total is less than 1 Gb. Does anybody know Gmail's policy on this? I am also looking to back up about 6 Gb worth of WordPerfect files. I know, I'm a dinosaur. 99% of you geezers (I'm saying this in a nice way) out there use Word. I got started using WordPerfect in the 80s when they were number 1.
I'm a cheapskate and I don't want to use paid services or go thru the backup routine every month. I once heard somewhere that Microsoft let's you store up to 25 Gb on one of their (online) programs. But I can't find anything on this. Anybody know if you can store data (word-processing files) for free online?  |
www.dropbox.com gives you 2gb free and as another poster mentioned you can share with any one that has an account or if have more than one computer you can share with your self.
You just place in a folder called dropbox on your PC with subfolders.
It uploads automatically. It also keeps 30 days of changes. Onc yous save the file it will update teh other computers (they have to be turned on)
Yes Microsoft gives you 25 gigs for free. Howver you can you can upload only 200 files at a time from one directory. I wanted to back up some music files and with about 2000 songs I just gave up...