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Usful Tips
PCQ
Monday, June 01, 2009
1 The benefits of compacting folders in email:Compacting folders in
email clients can save you considerable amounts of space. Compacting folders
doesn't mean compressing of folders. Many email clients tend to retain all
email, even after you delete or move them. They even remain after you've emptied
the trash bin. Actually, such mails are just marked for deletion, but aren't
actually deleted. Compacting is a way of removing all such mails. You'll be
surprised at the amount of storage space you can recover.
We tried it on Thunderbird mail client, and managed to recover more than 1 GB of
space, just by recovering inbox. We have noticed that Thunderbird does tend to
eat up a lot of hard drive space for storing emails. Compacting folders is a
great way to recover a lot of the unnecessary space it eats up.
2 Compressing emails when backing them up: Most email clients are
actually bloatware. They store emails in highly uncompressed form. So when you
backup your mails, you can simply compress the mail folders. Sometimes, you can
get up to 99% compression, therby save a lot of disk space.
3 Open MS office 2007 files in OpenOffice.org: OpenOffice by default
doesn't support MS office 2007 formats i.e .docx, .pptx and .pptx. If you are an
OO user, and you receive a 2007 format file, you either have to ask the user to
send the file again in a different format or find Office 2007 somewhere to
convert it into a supported format. Here is an easy way out of this. Using
'odf-converter-integrator' you can simply open 2007 format file in OO. It's free
and can be downloaded from http://tinyurl.com/ 2o9k26 . Using this converter is
simple. Just install it and double click on any 2007 format file. It will open
it in OO for you. It is available for Windows as well as Linux.
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