Just a little reminder: If you haven’t cleaned up your email folders in a while, now is as good a time as any. This especially applies to your computer devices, but it also applies to your mobile devices.
When I was tinkering with the email in my iPod Touch the other evening, I noticed that there were over 100 items in the sent mail folder. Since I have no need to keep any of those, I deleted them all. And, I deleted all the ones in the Touch’s email Trash box. (I empty the Trash box regularly). Admittedly, this didn’t save a lot of space on the drive, but it did free up the email database a bit.
The email program it really pays to clean out is Microsoft Outlook. There, sent emails and trash emails can add up, and they not only take up space (with all of their attachments), they also slow Outlook down. And, after you clean out the folders that need cleaning (sent email, trash, old project folders you no longer need, completed tasks, etc), it pays to compact your Outlook data files. These two steps can speed up Outlook a lot, depending on how much unnecessary email you get rid of and on how much the database needed to be compacted.
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