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Accidentally deleted photos from SD card: is recovery possible?
I formatted my camera's SD card by mistake and deleted 3 months of travel photos from Japan and South Korea. Haven't taken any new pictures since.
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Can I recover deleted WhatsApp messages on Android?
Deleted a WhatsApp conversation by mistake on Samsung Galaxy S23. Had photos from a family trip. Google Drive backup is 3 days old.
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Pen drive showing RAW format and asking to format: how to fix?
My 32GB USB pen drive shows as RAW in Disk Management and Windows wants me to format it. Has important client documents on it.
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How to recover deleted files from an SSD?
Accidentally shift-deleted a folder from my SSD, about 14GB of project files. SSD has TRIM enabled on Windows 11. Is recovery still possible?
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How to backup iPhone to Windows PC without iCloud?
Want to back up iPhone 15 locally to Windows 11 without iCloud. iTunes has been replaced. What's the current method?
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How to recover permanently deleted emails from Gmail?
Emptied Gmail Trash and then realised an important client email thread was in there. Google Workspace account. Is there an admin recovery option?
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How to migrate Exchange to Office 365: need a reliable solution
Moving from on-premise Exchange Server 2016 to Microsoft 365. About 80 mailboxes. Need to keep shared mailboxes and public folders intact.
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How to convert AOL PFC to Outlook PST file?
Bulk emails in AOL Desktop client need converting to Outlook PST. IMAP sync steps plus a direct conversion method when Outlook keeps freezing.
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How to open AOL PFC files to view emails?
Found a .pfc file with no AOL credentials and imports keep failing. What the Personal Filing Cabinet format is and how to read it directly.
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How to remove PDF protection without the password?
I have a batch of PDF reports from an old vendor. They are restricted, so I can't copy text or print them. The vendor shut down years ago and nobody
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Can I recover a corrupt PDF file that will not open?
A 40 page contract PDF got damaged during a cloud sync. Acrobat says the file is damaged and could not be repaired. Some pages show blank when I
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How to convert PST emails to PDF files?
Legal asked for 3 years of project correspondence as PDFs. It all sits in one 6GB Outlook PST. Printing each email one by one is not realistic. Is
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How to convert MSG files to PDF with attachments?
I have around 900 individual .msg files exported from Outlook over the years. Client wants them archived as PDF, attachments included. One at a time
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How to repair a damaged OST file in Outlook?
Outlook crashed during a Windows update and now it says errors have been detected in the OST file. It will not open at all. ScanPST ran for an hour
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PST file not opening in Outlook, need recovery help
My archive PST refuses to open. Outlook says the file is not a valid personal folders file. It holds 8 years of client history. ScanPST found errors,
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How to convert OST to PST format?
Our Exchange server is being retired and IT disabled my mailbox before I archived anything. I still have the OST on disk. Outlook refuses to export
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How to divide a large PST file into smaller parts?
My main PST crossed 45GB and Outlook has become painfully slow with random hangs. I want to split it into smaller files, ideally by year, without
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How to view emails in a PST file without MS Outlook?
A departed employee left behind a PST and I need to check a few messages in it. The machine I am on has no Outlook license and I do not want to buy
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How to merge multiple PST files into one?
Over the years I collected 14 PST files from various machines and backups. I want one searchable archive. Outlook import freezes on the bigger files.
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Outlook says PST file reached maximum size limit
Outlook popped a warning that my PST reached its maximum size and now sending fails. I deleted a few thousand old emails but the file size on disk
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How to read an OST file without Exchange?
I pulled an OST file from a decommissioned laptop for an internal review. There is no Exchange account behind it any more. I only need to read the
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Cannot start Microsoft Outlook, window will not open
Since this morning Outlook shows Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window. Safe mode does not help. Rebooted twice. Where do I
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How to read MBOX files on a Windows PC?
Google Takeout handed me my Gmail archive as one giant MBOX file. Windows has no idea what to do with it. I do not run Thunderbird. How do I read
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How to view MSG files without Outlook?
A client sends me .msg files as email evidence for case files. My work laptop has no Outlook. Double clicking obviously fails. What is the lightest
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How to recover deleted emails from Outlook?
I shift-deleted a whole folder in Outlook thinking it was an old copy. It was not. Deleted Items has nothing since shift-delete skips it. Is there
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How to read EML files on Windows 10?
Our old ticketing system exported every ticket as an .eml file, thousands of them. Windows 10 Mail opens them one by one very badly and half the
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How to remove duplicate emails from Outlook?
After restoring from two overlapping backups my inbox shows almost everything twice, sometimes three times. Tens of thousands of messages. Manual
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How to save Yahoo emails to Outlook?
Moving off Yahoo Mail after 15 years. I want everything in Outlook on my PC, folders intact. IMAP sync started but keeps stalling around the same
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How to convert OLM to PST without a Mac?
A colleague left the company and handed over an OLM archive from Outlook for Mac. We are a Windows shop with no Mac in the building. Can this OLM
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How to perform PST to Office 365 migration?
We finished moving to Microsoft 365 and now have about 120 legacy PST files from old machines to bring into user mailboxes. I looked at the AzCopy
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How to repair a suspect database in SQL Server?
Power cut mid-write and now our production database shows SUSPECT in SSMS. Last full backup is 5 days old and losing those days would be very bad.
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SQL Server transaction log file growing out of control
Our LDF file hit 400GB against a 60GB data file and the drive is nearly full. I shrank it once and it grew right back within a week. What actually
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How to migrate Outlook Express to Outlook?
Retiring an old Windows XP machine that still runs Outlook Express. All the mail sits in DBX files. New machine has Outlook 2016. Direct import keeps
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How to convert Outlook contacts to vCard format?
Switching my phone to Android and the transfer app wants contacts as .vcf files. My 900 contacts live in Outlook. The built-in export does one
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How to transfer VCF files to Outlook?
Opposite problem to most people. I have 300 individual .vcf files exported from an old phone and need them inside Outlook contacts. Outlook imports
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How to migrate Windows Live Mail to MS Outlook?
Windows Live Mail finally died on my mother's PC after an update. Years of family mail sit in its storage folder as EML files. I want it all in
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How to backup Hotmail to Outlook PST file format?
My old Hotmail account is getting closed by the company. 14 years of mail in there. I want a local PST copy on my hard drive before access goes. What
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How to backup AOL mail to a local drive?
AOL keeps sending me account inactivity warnings and I do not trust it any more. I want the entire webmail account backed up locally, mail plus
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How to read emails from a Lotus Notes NSF file without installing Lotus Notes?
Legal handed me an NSF file from a departed employee's Lotus Notes mailbox. We moved off Notes years ago and have no license or server left. I only
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How to backup Yahoo emails to a hard drive?
After the Yahoo breach news I want a full local copy of my mailbox on an external drive. Not moving to another provider yet, just want my own backup.
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How to import Yahoo mail folders to Thunderbird?
Moving from Yahoo webmail to Thunderbird on my desktop. IMAP shows the inbox fine but half my custom folders never appear no matter how long I wait.
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Microsoft Exchange Server migration from 2007 to 2016
We are still on Exchange 2007 with about 150 mailboxes and need to reach 2016. I read there is no direct upgrade path between these versions. What is
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How to repair a corrupt priv1.edb file on Exchange Server?
Old Exchange 2007 box crashed and the information store will not mount. Eseutil /mh shows the priv1.edb in dirty shutdown state. Last good backup is
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How to export an Exchange mailbox to PST?
Need PST exports of 12 leaver mailboxes for retention. Ran New-MailboxExportRequest and PowerShell says the term is not recognized. Exchange 2013.
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How to import a PST file to Exchange Server?
New hire brought a 4GB PST from her previous job and wants it inside her Exchange mailbox rather than as a side archive. Exchange 2016 on-prem.
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Best way to backup an Office 365 mailbox locally?
Microsoft's shared responsibility page makes it clear they do not back up our mailbox content in any restore-friendly way. 40 users on Business
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How to migrate Office 365 from one tenant to another?
Our company got acquired and we must fold our Microsoft 365 tenant into the parent company tenant. 85 mailboxes plus OneDrive. Microsoft has no
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How to assign the ApplicationImpersonation role in Office 365?
Our migration tool refuses to touch other mailboxes and its docs say the admin account needs ApplicationImpersonation rights. Where exactly is this
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How to open an MDF file without SQL Server?
Client shipped us an MDF file from a decommissioned application for a data audit. We do not run SQL Server here. Some rows I need to inspect and
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Index corrupted in SQL Server, how to fix?
CHECKDB started reporting corruption on a clustered index of our orders table. Queries against it intermittently fail. Nonclustered indexes on the
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How to migrate a database from one SQL Server to another?
Moving a 300GB production database from an aging 2012 box to new hardware running SQL Server 2016. Downtime window is 4 hours on a Sunday.
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How to check free space in a SQL Server database?
Our data file is 500GB on disk but I suspect a lot of it is empty after a big archive purge. How do I see actual free space inside the files before
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How to create and schedule a full database backup in SQL Server?
Inherited a small SQL Server 2017 instance that has apparently never been backed up. I need a full backup now and then an automatic schedule.
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How to split PDF files into separate pages?
Scanner produced one 600 page PDF of individual invoices and accounting wants each invoice as its own file. Splitting page ranges by hand in a reader
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How to merge multiple PDF documents into one?
Putting together a tender submission: 34 separate PDFs that must become one document in a specific order, some of them password protected by other
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Can I compress a PDF file size without losing quality?
Government portal caps uploads at 10MB and my scanned application PDF is 48MB. Online compressors either butcher the text or want a subscription.
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How to remove a watermark from a PDF file?
Our own old company reports carry a giant DRAFT watermark that was never removed before archiving. We need clean copies for an audit. The source Word
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How to convert Thunderbird emails to PDF?
Insurance case needs about 400 Thunderbird emails preserved as PDFs with headers and attachments visible. Print to PDF one at a time loses
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Is it possible to recover data from a formatted hard disk partition?
Reinstalling Windows I formatted the wrong partition, D: with all my project archives instead of C:. Quick format, NTFS, nothing written to it since.
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Outlook send receive error 0x800CCC0E, how to fix?
Every send receive cycle throws 0x800CCC0E and mail sits in the outbox. Started after our ISP changed something. Webmail works fine so the account
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Outlook keeps prompting for password again and again
Outlook pops the credentials box every few minutes even though the password is correct and Remember is ticked. Entering it works for a while then the
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Microsoft Outlook emails stuck in Outbox folder
Half my outgoing mail sits in the Outbox for hours before sending, some never leaves. Small text-only messages go instantly. Ones with attachments
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Hyperlinks not working in Outlook emails
Clicking any link in an Outlook email does nothing, or sometimes shows a policy restriction message about my organization. Same links work fine
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Cannot open attachments in Outlook 2016
Double clicking attachments in Outlook 2016 either errors with cannot create file or opens nothing at all. Saving to desktop first then opening
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Contacts missing from Microsoft Outlook address book
My Contacts folder shows all 600 contacts but hitting To in a new email opens an empty address book, or sometimes shows an old list. How are these
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Outlook not showing calendar or calendar items disappeared
Opened Outlook this morning to a blank calendar. Weeks of appointments gone from view. OWA in the browser still shows everything, so the data exists.
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Outlook not receiving emails but can send
Sending works perfectly but nothing new arrives in Outlook since yesterday. Webmail shows the new messages sitting there. Send receive completes with
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How to setup a Gmail account in Outlook?
Adding my Gmail to Outlook keeps failing at the password step even though the password is definitely right. Sometimes it loops on the credentials box
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How to print Outlook emails in bulk with attachments?
Court case needs 250 specific emails printed with their attachments. Outlook print does one message at a time and skips attachments entirely. There
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How to restore a BKF file on Windows 10?
Found old NTBackup .bkf archives from a Windows XP server with files we suddenly need. Windows 10 has no NTBackup and the Microsoft restore utility
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How to recover deleted records from a SQL Server table?
A colleague ran DELETE on the customers table without a WHERE clause. 40,000 rows gone, transaction committed. Database is in full recovery model
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How to recover deleted records from a SQLite database?
Our app deleted rows from its SQLite file due to a bug. No backup because it is a local desktop app. Has VACUUM run? No idea. Are deleted SQLite rows
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How to access and view an Android SQLite database?
Debugging my Android app and I need to inspect its SQLite database, both on a real device and in the emulator. What is the current sane workflow for
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How to shrink a SQLite database file?
Our app's SQLite file is 4GB after we purged 80 percent of old rows, yet the file size has not dropped a single byte. Why does deletion not shrink
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Fix Named Pipes Provider error 40 in SQL Server
Application server suddenly cannot reach SQL Server: error 40, could not open a connection. Sometimes we also see Network Interfaces error 26 or a
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How to resolve MS SQL error 824 logical consistency I/O error?
Logs show error 824, logical consistency-based I/O error, incorrect checksum, on reads of one database. Occasionally an 823 appears too. Application
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Error restoring a SQL database from BAK file
Trying to restore a vendor supplied .bak and every attempt fails: first a version error, then after moving to a newer instance, media family errors
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How to migrate Outlook emails to Google Workspace?
Company is moving from Outlook with local PSTs to Google Workspace, 25 users. Some PSTs are 15GB plus. Google's own migration tool choked on the
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How to restore deleted emails from a Google Workspace account?
An employee cleaned out their Workspace mailbox including Trash before resigning. We need those messages for handover. As admin, what recovery
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How to move a Google Drive folder to another Google Drive account?
Moving 200GB from my old personal Google Drive to a new account. Share and copy loses ownership on files, download and reupload will take days on my
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How to remove duplicate emails from a Gmail account?
Years of forwarding and a botched migration left my Gmail with thousands of duplicate messages. Search operators help me find some but deleting
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How to remove duplicate emails in Office 365?
A migration that got run twice left every mailbox in our Microsoft 365 tenant with doubled mail. 30 users. Support says restore from backup, which we
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Cannot access Yahoo Mail on iPhone or iPad
Yahoo Mail stopped working in the iPhone Mail app, keeps saying cannot verify account. Same on my iPad. The Yahoo website logs in fine with the same
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Can I transfer data from Mac Outlook to Windows Outlook?
Switching from Mac to a Windows laptop. Outlook for Mac exports an OLM archive but Windows Outlook has no idea what an OLM is. Emails, contacts and
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How to view a SQL Server transaction log file?
Someone changed data in a production table and I need to see who and when. The LDF file holds this but it is binary. How do I actually read a SQL
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How to install and open SQL Server Management Studio?
New to SQL Server. Installed the database engine but there is no Management Studio anywhere in the Start menu. I thought SSMS came with SQL Server.
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How to rename a SQL Server database safely?
Need to rename a production database from AppDB_test to AppDB_prod. I know the T-SQL rename command but is there more to it? The application connects
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How to convert a SQL Server database to MS Access?
A field team needs a subset of our SQL Server data in a portable Access file they can use offline. I do not want to give them server access. How do I
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How to export SQL Server query results to a CSV file?
Need to hand a business analyst a CSV from a query every morning. Copy paste from the SSMS grid mangles commas and drops leading zeros. What is the
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How to schedule automatic SQL Server backups on Express edition?
Running SQL Server Express which has no SQL Agent, so the usual scheduled maintenance plan route is closed to me. How do people automate backups on
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How to view an AutoCAD DWG file without AutoCAD?
Contractor sent us DWG drawings but nobody here owns AutoCAD, and a licence just to look at a few files is absurd. How do I view and measure DWG
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Simplest method to view a PSD file without Photoshop?
Designer left and sent over dozens of layered PSD files. I just need to see what they look like and export flat images, no editing. Photoshop is not
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Best way to view an EPS file on Windows?
Client sent logo files as EPS. Windows Photos will not touch them and double clicking does nothing. I need to view them and ideally convert to PNG
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How to view STP and 3D CAD model files?
Manufacturer sent STP files of a part for review. I need to rotate and inspect the 3D model but we run no CAD package. What opens STEP files for
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Unable to play WMA files on phone or DVD player
Old voice recordings and music are all in WMA format from a Windows Media era. My phone and car will not play them. How do I convert WMA to something
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How to view an MDF disc image file for archive purposes?
Sorting old backups I found .mdf and .mds file pairs. These are not database files, they look like disc images from an old burning program. How do I
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How to extract a DMG file on Windows?
Someone sent me a .dmg file with documents inside. That is a Mac disk image and I am on Windows with no Mac available. How do I get the files out of
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Unable to open PCX image files, how to fix?
Archive of old scanned documents is all in PCX format. Windows Photos refuses them and most modern apps do not know PCX. I need to view them and
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How to recover data from a corrupt VHD file?
A Hyper-V VM will not boot after a host crash. The VHDX attaches but shows as RAW, or Windows offers to format it. There is important data on that
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How to recover a lost MS Access database password?
Inherited an old Access .mdb from a former employee that holds data we still use. It is password protected and nobody has the password. It is our own
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How to view lost or corrupted data on a corrupted thumb drive?
USB thumb drive with a work presentation now shows as corrupted, files invisible in Explorer though the drive still shows some space used.
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How to save Google Drive files to a USB drive?
Leaving a job and want my personal files off the company Google Drive onto a USB stick before my account closes. 40GB across many folders.
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How to open and save contents from DMG files on PC?
Received several DMG archives from a Mac colleague that hold project assets. I am on Windows and need to permanently save the contents out, not just
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How to read MSG files on Android and mobile?
Colleagues forward me Outlook .msg files and I am often out of the office on my Android phone. The phone has no idea what to do with a .msg
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How to add an email signature for all users in Exchange or Office 365?
Management wants a standard company signature with logo and disclaimer on every outgoing email across 60 users. Setting it per person in Outlook does
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How to migrate Lotus Notes to Exchange Server?
Finally retiring an old Domino server, moving 90 users to on-prem Exchange 2019. Mailboxes are NSF files, some with local encryption. What is the
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How to format a thumb drive on Mac for use with Windows?
Formatted a USB drive on my Mac and now my Windows PC and the office printer will not read it. I need one drive that works on both Mac and Windows.
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Can I delete an OST file without losing email messages?
My OST file has grown to 38GB and Outlook 2016 takes forever to open. I read that deleting the OST forces Outlook to rebuild it smaller.
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Cannot access Outlook email: set of folders cannot be opened
Outlook 2016 starts, asks for my password, then throws Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window. The set of folders cannot be opened.
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Cannot delete Outlook profile from Mail settings
I have an old broken profile listed in Control Panel, Mail, Show Profiles. When I select it and click Remove, nothing happens. No error, no removal.
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Cannot move the items error when dragging emails in Outlook
Dragging emails between folders gives me Cannot move the items. The item could not be moved. It was either already moved or deleted, or access was denied.
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Cannot send large size attachment in Outlook: file exceeds limit
Trying to email a 45MB video to a client and Outlook blocks it with The file you are attaching is bigger than the server allows.
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How to change the default fonts of Outlook messages?
Every new email starts in Calibri 11 which looks tiny on my monitor. I want Segoe UI 12 for new mail and replies.
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How to clean up the Recoverable Items folder in Outlook?
Our Exchange admin says my Recoverable Items folder is at its 30GB quota and new deletions are failing. I cannot even see this folder in Outlook.
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Combine multiple email accounts into one inbox in Outlook
I run three accounts in Outlook 2016: work Exchange, a Gmail IMAP and an old POP address. Checking three inboxes all day is a pain.
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How to convert Berkeley mail to Outlook PST format?
I inherited mail archives from an old university Unix server. The admin calls them Berkeley mailbox files, single large files with no extension, one per folder.
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How to convert Maildir to Outlook PST?
Moving off a self hosted Dovecot server to Office 365. The mail store is Maildir: each folder has cur, new and tmp subfolders full of individual message files w
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Convert Outlook Express email to PDF format
An old XP machine in our office still holds Outlook Express mail we need for a legal file. The lawyer wants everything as PDF with attachments noted.
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How to convert Outlook mail to HTML files?
We are publishing a set of old newsletters from our Outlook archive to the company intranet. I need each email as a standalone HTML file with images intact.
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How to convert between Outlook PST file formats (ANSI and Unicode)?
An archive PST from Outlook 2002 refuses to grow past 2GB and started throwing errors. I gather it is the old ANSI format.
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How to convert an Outlook email to a Word document?
I need to submit several emails as part of a report, formatted and editable in Word with the header details showing.
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How to convert a PST file to EML format?
Migrating a user from Outlook to a client that imports EML only. I have their 12GB PST with about 30 folders.
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How to create an email message template in Outlook?
I send the same onboarding email a dozen times a week and rebuild it from a draft every time, which keeps getting accidentally sent or edited.
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How to create a separate PST file for contacts in Outlook?
I want my 800 contacts in their own PST, separate from the giant mail archive, so I can back the contacts up on their own and carry them between machines.
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How to get contacts from a DBK file into Outlook PST?
Found a .dbk backup from my old Sony Ericsson phone made with the Sony PC Suite years ago. My contacts from that era are only in this file.
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Delete all emails before a certain date in Outlook
Company policy now says nothing older than 3 years stays in the mailbox. I need to wipe everything received before January 1, 2018 across many folders.
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How to migrate from eM Client to Outlook?
Been on eM Client for four years, moving to Outlook because of a new job requirement. Local folders hold about 20GB of mail plus contacts and calendar.
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How to encrypt a PDF before sending it in Outlook?
We email salary letters as PDFs and HR now requires them protected so only the recipient can open them.
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Error code 1001 in Outlook 2016: how to fix?
Outlook 2016 refuses to launch after a failed Office update, showing error 1001. Repairing from the setup exe also dies with the same code.
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Outlook keeps showing error messages: general troubleshooting order
My Outlook throws a different error every few days. Sometimes send receive failures, sometimes a data file warning, once a crash on startup. Each time I search
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Eudora 7.1.0.9 paid mode: can I migrate everything to Outlook?
Still running Eudora 7.1.0.9 in paid mode, over a decade of mail. Time to finally move to Outlook 2016.
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Exchange account shows Disconnected in Outlook 2016
Status bar says Disconnected on my Exchange account. Webmail works, the network is fine and colleagues are connected.
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Exchange account setup option not available in Outlook 2016
Setting up Outlook 2016 against our on premise Exchange 2013. In older Outlook I always picked Manual setup, entered the server name and was done. That whole op
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Export Entourage MBOX to Outlook PST format
Retiring an ancient Mac running Entourage 2008. The mail needs to end up in Outlook 2016 on Windows.
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Export Google Apps contacts to Outlook
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How to export Google Calendar to Outlook?
Moving my scheduling from Google Calendar to Outlook. Years of events, some recurring, plus a shared team calendar.
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Export multiple vCard contacts in Outlook 2013
Need to hand 300 contacts to a colleague whose CRM only imports vCard. Outlook 2013 saves vCards one contact at a time through Save As.
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Export Outlook contacts to Google Gmail
Switching my personal setup from Outlook to Gmail. 600 contacts need to make the trip.
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Export Outlook contacts to Windows address book
An old label printing program on our office PC reads only the Windows address book, not Outlook. It worked on the XP machine and stopped after the Windows 10 up
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How to export Outlook email to a TXT file?
Our ticketing system ingests plain text files. I need to feed it emails from Outlook, sometimes one, sometimes a whole folder of them.
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Export Outlook for Mac calendar to iCal: simple steps
Leaving a job where I used Outlook for Mac. I want my personal calendar entries in Apple Calendar before the account closes.
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Export Outlook messages to MSG files
Compliance wants copies of all correspondence with one client saved to a project folder, each email as its own file with attachments included.
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Export an Outlook PST file to EML using Thunderbird
Zero budget project: I need a 4GB PST turned into EML files and I keep reading Thunderbird can do it for free.
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Export Thunderbird address book to Outlook
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Export all Thunderbird data into MS Outlook data file
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Export Thunderbird emails to PST Outlook format the easy way
Just the emails, nothing else: what is the least fiddly way to get my Thunderbird mail into a PST? I have seen guides involving IMAP relays and add-ons and my p
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How to extract an EML file from Outlook?
A vendor's support portal only accepts email evidence as .eml uploads. Outlook's Save As offers everything except EML and dragging the message out gives me .msg
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Extract Outlook contacts from PST and OST files
Cleaning up after a departed employee: IT handed me their PST archive and an OST file from the old laptop. I need just the contacts out of both for the CRM hand
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Extract PDF files from Outlook emails in bulk
Accounts wants every PDF invoice from our supplier folder saved into the finance share, about two years of emails.
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How do I import a PST file into Mac Mail?
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How to add Zoho Mail to Outlook?
Our startup uses Zoho Mail on our own domain and I want it inside Outlook 2019 next to my other accounts.
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How to increase Outlook performance?
Outlook 2016 takes half a minute to open, freezes when switching folders and search crawls. The machine itself is fine, an SSD with 16GB of RAM.
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Import contacts from a CSV file in Outlook Web App
Working on a locked down machine with no desktop Outlook, only Outlook Web App through the browser. I have a contacts CSV from our old system to bring in.
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Import emails to Windows Live Mail from Outlook
My father in law insists on Windows Live Mail on his home PC. He is retiring from a job where all his mail lived in Outlook, exported as a PST.
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Import an Excel file into Outlook contacts
Marketing handed me an xlsx with 900 leads to load into a shared Outlook contacts folder. The import wizard greys out or errors on the Excel file.
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How to import Gmail contacts to Outlook?
Consolidating everything into Outlook and my Gmail account holds the master copy of my contacts, around 500.
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Import iCloud contacts to an Outlook 365 account
iPhone user moving my contact management into my work Outlook 365 account. All 700 contacts live in iCloud.
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Digging through a retired colleague's files I found the office contact list as a .nab file, apparently a Netscape address book from the early 2000s.
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Leaving a company and allowed to take my business contacts. They live in my Office 365 mailbox and my personal machine runs Outlook with a POP account and a loc
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How to import an OST file to Gmail?
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Import Outlook contacts to a Kindle Fire HD
Bought my mother a Kindle Fire HD for video calls and email. Her contacts all live in my Outlook and the Fire has no obvious way to receive them.
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Import Outlook Express mail into Mozilla Thunderbird
Finally moving my parents off a Windows XP machine running Outlook Express. Their new PC will run Thunderbird.
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Lost saved mails in Thunderbird: folders suddenly empty
Opened Thunderbird this morning and two local folders holding years of saved mail show empty. Other folders are fine. No crash that I noticed, though Windows up
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Merge multiple folders from different Outlook accounts into one
Four accounts in my Outlook, each with its own Projects folder built up over years. I want one consolidated Projects folder I can search and eventually archive
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Merge Outlook contact folders from multiple PST files
Consolidating a decade of archives: five PST files, each holding a Contacts folder from a different era of my career. Plenty of the same people appear in severa
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How to merge two Outlook contacts folders?
Somewhere along the way my profile grew a second contacts folder and new contacts have been landing in both randomly for a year. Roughly 300 in one, 200 in the
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Migrate a calendar from Office 365 Outlook to PST
Contract ending, and my 365 calendar holds two years of project meeting history the client says I may keep for my records.
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Dropping my Office subscription and moving to the built in Apple Mail on the same Mac. Outlook for Mac holds about 30GB across two accounts plus local On My Com
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Backing up a Thunderbird profile I see folders ending in .sbd everywhere, like Work.sbd and Clients.sbd, mixed in with files that have no extension.
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Move emails from Outlook to Thunderbird
Going the direction nobody writes guides for: leaving Outlook for Thunderbird permanently. One IMAP account plus a 15GB PST archive of old mail.
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How to move the Outlook archive file to another drive?
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Move Thunderbird contacts to Outlook with lists intact
Read the CSV export guide for Thunderbird address books, but my setup leans on mailing lists: Family, Book Club, two project teams. CSV apparently drops those.
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Move a Mozilla Thunderbird address book into a Microsoft Outlook account
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MS Outlook 2011 for Mac error code -18597 when sending mail
Outlook 2011 on an older Mac throws Error -18597, authentication failed, every time I send, though receiving works and the password is definitely right, it work
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MS Outlook not getting closed: process keeps running
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Need help to convert PocoMail to an Outlook account
Long time PocoMail loyalist finally forced to move since development stopped years ago. New employer is an Outlook shop.
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Need to recover a password protected PST file
Found my own archive PST from a job I left in 2014 and apparently past me set a password on it. Present me has no idea what it was.
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OST password remover: do OST files even have passwords?
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Outlook 2011 on Mac has stopped syncing properly with our Exchange server: folders stuck at old states, sync icons spinning forever and the error log filling wi
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Outlook 2016 corrupting PDF attachments for recipients
Recipients outside our company report my PDF attachments arrive corrupt or as a weird winmail.dat file. The same PDFs open fine on my machine and fine when I se
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Outlook accepted meeting still shows as tentative
I accept meetings and days later find them sitting as tentative in my calendar again, which has now caused two double bookings. Sometimes the organizer even has
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My Outlook.com mailbox refuses to open in the browser, stuck on the loading spinner or showing Something went wrong. The same account works fine on my phone.
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Outlook data files must be opened within Outlook: double click error
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Outlook error 0x8004010F: data file cannot be accessed
Every send receive ends with 0x8004010F, Outlook data file cannot be accessed. Mail actually seems to arrive but the error fires on every sync.
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Outlook error code 1058-4 when starting Office applications
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Outlook messages in inbox not displaying
My inbox shows either nothing or a fraction of what is really there. Webmail shows hundreds of messages, Outlook desktop shows a strange sparse selection.
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Outlook could not create the work file error
Every Outlook start greets me with Outlook could not create the work file. Check the temp environment variable. Outlook then mostly works but images in mail oft
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Outlook Sent folder not showing messages
Messages I send definitely arrive, recipients confirm, but my Sent Items folder stays empty or misses most of them.
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Salvaging data files from a decommissioned laptop I find the familiar OST plus several .nst files I have never met. Same folder, substantial sizes.
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I set a password on my archive PST years ago and typing it at every Outlook start has finally exhausted me. I know the password, I just want it gone.
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Outlook 2011 on Mac refuses to send anything, every attempt logging error 17199. Receiving continues normally and nothing about our account changed that I know
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Our hosting provider's webmail is Roundcube and I am moving to desktop Outlook. Years of mail organized into dozens of folders in there.
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Our document management system ingests RTF files best, and I need selected emails filed into it with formatting reasonably intact.
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I spend absurd time hunting for that email with the file in it. There must be a proper way to search only among messages carrying attachments, ideally by attach
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Sending to anyone outside our own domain bounces instantly with 554 5.7.1 relay access denied. Mail inside the domain flows fine.
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First time moving from purely webmail into desktop Outlook and I want to start on the right foot rather than clicking through blindly.
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What is the SRS file in Outlook and can I delete it?
Investigating my roaming profile size I find .srs files in the Outlook appdata folder, one per profile it seems. Search results about them are thin and contradi
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My work life runs in Outlook 2013 and my family plans in Google Calendar, and the two not knowing about each other keeps double booking me.
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Desktop at the office, laptop for travel, Outlook on both. Keeping them matched by hand is failing badly. Read mail shows unread, replies exist on one machine o
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New job, new PC, desktop Outlook. The master copy of my 400 contacts lives on my Android phone.
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Upgraded the PC to Windows 10 and Outlook receives perfectly but every send sits in the Outbox forever or errors out. Nothing about the account changed, only th
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Can I hide a database in SQL Server from other users?
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