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Initech

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22. Depends on how big the hard drive is and whether or not a backup copy was created.

Reply to imanamerican63 (Original post)

Mon Oct 31, 2016, 10:51 AM

Oct 2016

On Outlook you can absolutely save backup copies of e-mails and that should have been done regardless. Any competent IT department will tell you that. But since 8 and 10TB hard drives exist now there's no such thing as having so many the hard drive would crash. If anything the cause of that happening would depend on the age of the server.

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I have a question for the computer experts? [View all] imanamerican63 Oct 2016 OP

They go away after a while. Wilms Oct 2016 #1

roflmaooooooo, people on the Tube are looking at me like I am a nutter Grey Lemercier Oct 2016 #20

It has nothing to do with the number of emails and everything to do with how they are accessed Renew Deal Oct 2016 #2

Ok! imanamerican63 Oct 2016 #4

Is that 650,000 number real? Renew Deal Oct 2016 #6

That is a high number and that is why I asked the experts! imanamerican63 Oct 2016 #7

Hard drives today can be in terabytes. They can hold thousands and thousands of emails with RKP5637 Oct 2016 #3

See my response in #4! imanamerican63 Oct 2016 #5

sure lapfog_1 Oct 2016 #8

it's possible but..... getagrip_already Oct 2016 #9

small math error lapfog_1 Oct 2016 #10

I corrected it..... getagrip_already Oct 2016 #11

i deal in PBs many many PBs - n/t lapfog_1 Oct 2016 #12

a PB is just a 4 figure TB... ;) getagrip_already Oct 2016 #13

The average email is a lot smaller than 50k Foggyhill Oct 2016 #14

possibly... getagrip_already Oct 2016 #17

2GB PST file limits are from a long time ago. Current versions of Outlook(2010 and later) can do 50 WhollyHeretic Oct 2016 #16

this laptop is many moons old apparently... getagrip_already Oct 2016 #18

649,995 are Weiners (junk) Motley13 Oct 2016 #21

Please don't write "Wierner's" and "junk" in the same sentence. B2G Oct 2016 #24

Depends on how big the hard drive is and whether or not a backup copy was created. Initech Oct 2016 #22

It's easy to lose up to 22 million emails, in fact. Orrex Oct 2016 #23

Another question? Tracer Oct 2016 #25

When you trash them, they are usually Foggyhill Oct 2016 #27

Yes. Especially intergovernmental type emails that don't have lots of jpeg and .mov Fahrenthold451 Oct 2016 #28

How long emails remain in your inbox depends on your settings. ColemanMaskell Oct 2016 #29

i use a cloud based product cause outlook in the past set limits dembotoz Oct 2016 #30

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