Hah !
What a small world. Toevallig, I read the same article this morning. And toevallig, with all the rain over the weekend, I had spent some time behind the laptop looking for a solution to the .pst problem.
I had downloaded a program which could download all my emails on the Yahoo mail account into Outlook: so I cleaned up the Yahoo mail account but was left with an even larger .pst file.
Afterwards I wondered why I had done this: as Yahoo offers 1Gb of free space for emails, which I am nowhere near in reaching.
Having said that I meticulously keep all my emails as I consider them to be a kind of diary of my life ... yes, you have a weird son.
Up to now, I've saved several old .pst files to CD. This weekend however, I wondered whether there were any tools which could convert all this information into something more generic ... which is more or less the same problem described by the Bill Thompson's article; how will I be able to access this info in the future ?
The term digital life has been dropped by the guru's, but the big problem isn't storage space but the file formats: which formats will survive the ticking of the clock ?
Gegroet. Paul.
PS: as a test: I'm blogging this (see: http://boekhoch.blogspot.com).
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: webmasters@bbc.co.uk [mailto:webmasters@bbc.co.uk]Namens Dad
Verzonden: dinsdag 7 juni 2005 10:11
Aan: Richardson, P (Paul)
Onderwerp: BBC E-mail: Caught in the Windows to Mac rift
Dad saw this story on BBC News Online and thought you
should see it.
** Message **
Morning Paul, this is an interesting article and one which gives pause for thought seeing as it is written by a (socalled) expert. It also confirms what I find myself, that extracting e-mails from the *.pst fortmat never seems to work. I used to say "it must be me doing something wrong" now I think differently. Ciao 4 now, Dad
** Caught in the Windows to Mac rift **
Moving e-mail programs from one machine to another holds a message for the industry, says Bill Thompson.
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/technology/4613331.stm >
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