Apparantly it's a huge deal to alot of people. 17,000 emails and 10years worth of correspondance? Maybe I just don't care/rely on my email that much but really, is this common? How much important information do you store in your email? I can't fathom anything really in mine.
#2
Chibibar
Heh, you should come to my work sometimes. We have email for about 20 years for our school. People have KEPT email that long. One of our users had a total rebuilt and she freaked out cause she lost everything that was 10+ years ago (we manage to get other stuff back)
The first time that ever happened to me I got upset but now I know to get important info off my email. Now, I don't care so much.
#5
fade
I keep it as a backup, with the advent of things like gmail. I wouldn't be insane or anything if I lost info, but I certainly wouldn't like it. The important stuff has been picked out, but occasionally, I find myself searching back 4 years in my mail.
#6
figmentPez
Still no dates displayed on posts in blog view. Why would you leave the time, but not the date?
#7
Joe Johnson
I think this is the larger concern for some people:
"What if the cloud fails?" one wondered in the help forum. "If, ultimately, Google does not make this right in a timely way and I lose the main record of the last 7 years of my life ... that will forever affect how I view trusting an anonymous server farm somewhere with my critical or even not-so-critical data."
#8
figmentPez
My past emails are really useful. I have a lot of purchase receipts from my various online purchases. I could get by without them, but searching my email is usually the fastest way to figure out who long ago I bought my computer, when I replaced the batteries in my UPS and other stuff like that.
