Plan your strategy to deal with that thicket of emails
Q: Is there a way to set up my computer to delete my email after 30 days?
A: With email there are a couple of things to consider when it comes to purging old messages.
The first is what is kept on the server.
When your computer connects to your email account, it looks for new messages on the server and downloads them to your PC. Then, depending on your settings, it will leave the messages on the server, delete the messages from the server or delete the messages after they are of a certain age.
I tend to set my email program up to delete email messages from the server that are more than 2 weeks old. This does not affect the messages you have downloaded to your PC, only the messages on the mail server.
The second thing to consider is what happens to email messages downloaded to your PC.
For most of us, we tend to just hang on to every message we get or manually go through and delete messages we no longer need. But email programs like Microsoft Outlook offer a feature that will go through and archive or delete messages based on the time frame you set.
For example, you can set up archiving to pull any messages that are more than 30 days old and move them to an archive. This way you have them if you need to go back and reference them, but they are not cluttering up your inbox. Alternatively, you can also set it to delete your expired messages.
For more information on Outlook archiving features, consult the article at preview.tinyurl.com/ helplinemailarchive.
Other email applications also offer archiving features, though they may not be as robust as Outlook. Information on their features should be readily available online using search terms that include “archive” along with the name of your email application.
Q: Is there a “onebutton” consolidation program that will make my Win 10 machine think the two 500 GB SSDs are a single 1 TB SSD? Not a RAID setup, but something that just looks at them and puts them together as one.
A: What you are describing is the very definition of RAID. While I don’t know of any “one-button” solution, making this happen is not overly complicated and can be done inside of Windows. Windows doesn’t call it RAID, it calls it Spanning, but it’s pretty much the same thing.
Check out this step-bystep tutorial on How To Geek’s website: tinyurl. com/helplinespanning.