I want to thank everyone that has been giving me guidance as I find my way around Active Rain. As I was preparing to really get into this blogging thing, and was reading and observing, etc. something happened that has slowed my progress on learning to blog. But, never fear, I'll be back at it soon.
Here's what I'd like to share. I didn't know this, and maybe someone else out there doesn't either, and my mistake can help you! Believe it or not, once your emails (Personal Folders) gets to 2.0 GB, it becomes corrupt, and it's looking like it's next to impossible to access. No warning, it just disappears! A screen will pop up and tell you to run the Inbox Repair Tool, (what it doesn't tell you is that it probably won't work). Trying ScanDisk doesn't appear to work. Long story short, you may find something that will allow you access, after many hours, days; but you probably won't!
So, the moral to this story is to back-up or Archive your Personal Folders files (your emails), just as you would your contact database, financial database, etc. I know I will from now on. I had no idea that all the years of saving emails as a paperless traill, would end up like this - if I needed to access something, I so far can't possibly get to it!
Hope this doesn't happen to you!
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