Moving slowly into the past

After years of trying to avoid it, I have finally bitten the bullet, faced the music and kept up with the Joneses, by moving to GMail. For a start, it runs far more quickly than MS Outlook, especially when dealing with the amount of email I have kept, but also it means I can access it wherever rather than having to boot up to view.

The only challenge is migrating 61 pst files, yes that's right, 61 dirty fat pst files, from my PC to the interwebs. For each project I work on, I create a new PST file, and move pertinent material from Inbox to the project PST file. This works great as I know everything will be in one place, and at the end of the project, I can close that PST from Outlook and reduce the number of emails in my face.

Now however, it is getting harder and harder to manage all of this so a cloud-based solution makes sense.

Unfortunately, unless you have a Google Docs domain you can only upload slowly via Outlook itself, copying files into the imap mirror folder. There are a few scripts that can assist, but due to the miss and miss rate, it is easier, but rather time consuming to upload project by project.

16 down, 45 to go. . . . .