Hello

[Sum1Ls]

It’s been a testing time! In IT terms.

A bit ago I got an email from Yahoo saying that I needed to ‘clean my email’. I asked my son if it was scam and he said he didn’t know but he’d have to take a look.
Unfortunately, by the time he did my email box had stopped working because it was full.

[Daisy]

Sun1, how frustrating. My sympathies. The trouble with all these clever scams is that it can stop us doing even ordinary "housekeeping" jobs on our devices.

I hope you, or your son has been able to free up some space in your email box.

[Gemini]

Sum1, I had an email from Yahoo a while ago saying that from May 5th the storage conditions would be changing. I had a mammoth delete, and it was OK once the date came.

[Daisy]

Gem, that's useful to know.

[Oma]

I always delete my emails after a time , B goes mad he says check before you do there may be some that is needed later ,
I never think I just press delete 😁

[Daisy]

Oma, my OH deleted emails as soon as he's read them! He often asks later - sometime months later - if I've still got them.

[Gemini]

I had some of them for longer than I had known all of you!!!

[Plantaholic]

I clear out my unwanted emails as soon as I have read them, only keep some if I need to or have to take action

[Daisy]

I had some of them for longer than I had known all of you!!!

Same here, Gem, although I do do some housekeeping and delete non-important ones, like the ones trying to sell me something I don't want.

[Sum1Ls]

What nobody told me is that once you delete an email it goes in the ‘bin’ then you have to do it all over again. I expect everyone here is going ‘DOH’ what a plonker, and I suppose I am but if nobody tells you how are you supposed to know?

Anyway, in the end, it was in such a mess that T got the man who sorts out his desktop to come a look. And all emails from 2006 to 2023 have gone forever.

I have letters from when I was 14 in school and beyond all kept and certainly it made you think carefully about what to write and they serve to preserve precious memories.

what will happen to them when I’m no longer on this earth is probably a bonfire. Ah well.

[Gemini]

Sum1, I think it's probably best not the think about what may happen to our precious things when we have gone!

[Daisy]

Sum, technology is a wonderful thing, but it can throw up unexpected "problems". In these days of mass electronic communications emails often lose their relevance or value. I often think, once I've deleted something, or thrown something away, that's it and I can forget about it. Which reminds me, I really must prune some of the 11,857 emails in my inbox!

I agree with Gem. Things that are precious to us won't mean the same to those who have to sort out our belongings.