Among Friends

[qualitygal]

I was just deleting some, and wondered how long you keep your emails for? Some I want to save I move to a folder I've made.

I think it makes your computer work harder to save and keep these indefinitely. But then, I'm not that computer savy. I'm guessing.

[circles]

I read and either reply or delete as i go along...before the end of the day  i have cleaned out all of my sent and trash...I like to keep my e-mail clean...if i really want to keep something...i will make a copy of it...rarely happens, though...

[AngelPuppy1]

I am terrible at deleting e-mails.  I will not even say how many I had.  Just yesterday, I purged all of it.  

[Desertdi]

Until I get a new one from that person

[cotton4me]

I delete them once I read and/or reply.  There's usually no reason to keep them.  

[jackthebear]

No more than 3 months

junk and mail that is unread gets deleted into the trash can

[151949]

I don't have a lot of storage in my chromebook so it deletes them as the space gets filled with new ones. Even if you delete them they are still in there somewhere.

[VaBelle35]

For Work, I have every email since the day I arrived on 1/6/2000.

For Home, I think it automatically deletes the trash folder periodically.  The sent folder, I keep for a few years and then go in and delete a year or 2.  I tend to need to find things periodically that someone told me, an address someone sent me or the name of a baby, things like that.

[hckynutjohn]

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@qualitygal wrote:

I was just deleting some, and wondered how long you keep your emails for? Some I want to save I move to a folder I've made.

I think it makes your computer work harder to save and keep these indefinitely. But then, I'm not that computer savy. I'm guessing.

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That depends on the importance of the e-mail to me. Important ones I save in a folder made specifically for them. I also make sub-folders within that main folder based on it's content.

If they are important enough, I also back them up on my external drive and/or a thumb drive.

As far as the computer working harder? That depends on the content in the e-mail. Only text don't have much, if any effect. Pictures? The bigger the files the more possible effect. Any type of graphics kicks in more computer resources, with video files using the most.

I have maybe a total of 75, my wife has well over a thousand.

hckynut(john)

[hckynutjohn]

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@VaBelle35 wrote:

For Work, I have every email since the day I arrived on 1/6/2000.

For Home, I think it automatically deletes the trash folder periodically.  The sent folder, I keep for a few years and then go in and delete a year or 2.  I tend to need to find things periodically that someone told me, an address someone sent me or the name of a baby, things like that.

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Yikes! I hope you have a flawless filing system if "you keep them for a few years". I would need a lot of Main Folders and even more sub-folders within that folder. No way I would remember where I saved so and so's address. 

Whatever works for someone.

hckynut(john)