The calibration should be done if you think it might be miscalibrated. It's not a necessity to do it right away, but I would do it sometime in the next week or so, just so you can get an idea of how long your battery lasts when calibrated correctly.
Typo Boy: I'm not sure what you mean by a battery backup. The computer is plugged into one, or the battery itself? If the battery is not plugged into anything, you're probably saving some battery life. If it's plugged into something that's keeping it at full charge, I'd think that it's the same thing as leaving it your plugged-in laptop. If you're looking to get 10 years of battery life, I'd think leaving the battery completely unplugged from everything except when used is your best bet. I've never been that dedicated: my longest-lasting laptop was 4 and a half years, and it's battery life was down to about 1.5 hours when I finished, which I could live with.
Yeah the computer itself is plugged into a battery backup to protect the power supply and hard disk. The battery is unplugged.
Then I think you're probably extending the life of the battery.
So maybe I'll just let it discharge the rest of the way while I sleep and die
I feel like you're missing some punctuation there, buddy.
I have Googled madly for the solution to my issue, and I haven't been able to find a straightforward answer, so I think this may be more complicated than I would have hoped, BUT there must be a way to do it.
I used Outlook Express for ten years. I have ten years' worth of e-mails in .DBX files.
Windows 7 does not support Outlook Express. Instead, it has Windows Live Mail. I may use Windows Live Mail. I may use Thunderbird. People like Thunderbird, right? I may use Outlook, I don't know.
Nearly all import solutions I have seen involve having OE installed on the same computer. How can I import all my e-mails with just the files?
Okay, according to this page, Windows Live Mail should be able to import my files with no problem? I hope that's true. And, ah, then I can export to Outlook (when I tried to import to Outlook years ago, it reset the Received date and time to the time of the import, which was stupid, so I never used it, but now that I use Outlook at work, maybe I want to use it at home, I don't know?). If Windows Live Mail will take my damn e-mails with no problem, I may just use it. Anyone have an opinion on it? I like that it apparently has an optional conversation view. Thunderbird can do things as well and is more customizable, but after years of OE, I don't really ask for much from a mail program, you know? I don't know what I want/need. Windows Live Mail also has a calendar (as does Outlook), but can they sync with my Google Calendar? I don't need more calendars.
back up your OE files first and put them on an external hard drive.
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you might need to do OE --> Outlook before you can import your email files.
Oh, my files are already backed up. For Outlook, actually, I would have to import to Windows Live Mail and then export to Outlook, but I may just use Outlook to keep my personal work e-mails. I think that was the issue I was having, actually, when I thought maybe I couldn't get Outlook. But I think I will have it.
I think also maybe that Thunderbird can't easily take my .dbx files, and I was considering using that program. But Windows Live Mail appears to be able to import my mail directly, so I can't remember what I was so worried about. I just hope it works correctly.
I had this problem, and apparently it's because I had bought stuff with two different IDs (although I'm not sure how), and I could never fix it, although I didn't go so far as to contact Apple about it. I think megan walker had a similar issue.
I only have the one ID. If it would just tell me which apps I'll lose, I could make a more informed decision.
I've been using Thunderbird as my backup, but with any setting I can find it has one flaw - it is find as a picture of Gmail's current state, but useless for archiving. If I delete something in gmail, thunderbird deletes it on the local client.
So I decided to give Gmail Backup a try. Only, it turns out Gmail backup backs up each email as a seperate file. I have 2 Gigabytes of gmail data. Understandably by the time all that was downloaded as separate files it slowed down by computer something awful. I uninstalled gmail backup and delete those files and deleted the restore point that help a copy of those 100,000 files or whatever in a single directory.
So I guess the next step is to backup thunderbird by copying to mbox file as a form of archiving, then start purging the absurd number of emails I have on gmail.
