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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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How do I back up a lot of emails onto a flash drive? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am helping my family member save their emails to a flash drive or hard drive, how do I do this properly? And contents of those emails. A lot of them are from loved ones that aren't around anymore. I'm doing this from 3 their email accounts, how do I keep track of what I have saved and what I haven't saved, there are thousands of emails. I hope this is the right place to ask, thank you guys!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What email service do they use? You’re probably looking for an IMAP downloader, unless the service itself offers another way to export data (e.g. google takeout for gmail).