Deleting Emails

[derekpara]

I use Windows LiveMail on my PC and laptop.

The laptop has nearly five thousand messages in its inbox because I'm not sure whether deleting them would also remove them from my PC, which is my main machine. Are my fears unfounded ?

Windows 7/Firefox.

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[TWR]

Either High Light the lot by scrolling down then delete the lot Derek.

[aelmpvw]

if i delete emails on my laptop they are automatically deleted from my pc

[bhg481]

I don't know anything about Windows Live Mail; some mail tools delete from the server when you delete the message, others just delete the message from the computer you are reading it on.
I suggest that you choose a message that you're not bothered about keeping and delete it from your laptop. Then go and look on your PC and see if it's still there or if it's gone. If it's still there you're safe to delete them from your laptop.
Incidentally, to highlight all the messages (or all the files in a directory) highlight one of them then send ctrl+a; much easier than scrolling down a 5000 long list.

[murraymints]

why would you want to keep 5k of mail ? don't have live so can't comment..I have to remove from pc..lappie..kindle..real pain

[Mosaic]

Murraymints - sometimes people use email as a filing system, to store important information. Hence inboxes can get a bit large.
I've also worked with people who are made very anxious at the thought of deleting anything.

[Peter Pedant]

depends on what they say
hur hur hur

deleting on the windows system just pulls off the name label tag and the body of the message is sent out to the unused part of the computer

search programs which search for 'does my bum look big in this' and other paraterrorist codes can then uncover the remainder of the text

and then it is off to prison for christmas to join a few a very few of your para pals I am afraid

to delete securely you need an erazer prog
which overprints each space of the message.
free ones available on the internet

I do this for any confidential commercial data/information

[Buenchico]

Windows Live Mail is an email client which (like Outlook, Outlook Express and Hotmail) downloads emails to your computer so that they can be read locally. The default setting would be to atomatically delete those emails for your email provider's server, so that they wouldn't be available via any other machine. However if you've got the same emails on two computers you must have over-ridden that setting and you've now got two totally separate copies of each email. Deleting one won't affect the other.

If you want to check that your emails are stored locally (and not on a remote server) simply disconnect your machines from the internet. If your emails are still available then, clearly, they're stored as files on each computer and you can safely delete them on one machine without affecting the other. (It's no different to deleting a picture on one of your computers, that you've also got on the other. The second copy won't be affected in any way).

[Peter Pedant]

Didnt some poor skool boy do timme for having instructions to make a molotov cocktail ?

I mean blimey - get a milk bottle ( beer will do ) drink contents, refill with something else - and stick a rag in the top before use

oh blimey ( again ) what is that knock on the door ?

[Mosaic]

Peter calm down dear. You're going orf topic and into a bewilderness again. Cocoa time, come on.

[hc4361]

Are you okay, PP?

[derekpara]

Thanks, everyone. Brilliant as usual.

PP, what a coincidence; I'm off to visit one in HMP Brixton this week (great guy). I'll give him your love !

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