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How do I back up a lot of emails onto a flash drive? (alien.top)
submitted 11 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 11 months ago

You could connect their email to Thunderbird and export a backup from there. A roundabout way to do it. Who's the email provider? Gmail?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

As others have said you can export the emails to a file. They won't individually be openable though. Also major thing DON'T DEPEND ON A FLASH DRIVE. If it's just a backup fine, but please don't use it as the only place the data is. They die randomly all the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 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).