Section 4: Critical Data Back-ups
Did you know that if you have a hard-drive failure your e-mail contacts are lost forever if you are using an on-board email program such as Microsoft Outlook or Windows Live Mail?
Your e-mails are gone as well, unless you have a back-up or your computer tech is very astute at retrieving data from a failed HDD. He cannot however, recover your contacts!
I am going to guide you through a procedure to back-up this data before you run into a problem. I will walk you through those two most commonly used programs and two versions of Outlook. Then, I will deal with “Online” email because there are some pitfalls here as well.
Following the email, I will cover some random programs, as examples, for backing up data that is only found in locations most users are not familiar with. You will then be able to apply this to your own programs.