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Accidentally deleted photos from SD card: is recovery possible?
I formatted my camera's SD card by mistake and deleted 3 months of travel photos from Japan and South Korea. Haven't taken any new pictures since.
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Can I recover deleted WhatsApp messages on Android?
Deleted a WhatsApp conversation by mistake on Samsung Galaxy S23. Had photos from a family trip. Google Drive backup is 3 days old.
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Pen drive showing RAW format and asking to format: how to fix?
My 32GB USB pen drive shows as RAW in Disk Management and Windows wants me to format it. Has important client documents on it.
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How to recover deleted files from an SSD?
Accidentally shift-deleted a folder from my SSD, about 14GB of project files. SSD has TRIM enabled on Windows 11. Is recovery still possible?
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How to backup iPhone to Windows PC without iCloud?
Want to back up iPhone 15 locally to Windows 11 without iCloud. iTunes has been replaced. What's the current method?
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How to recover permanently deleted emails from Gmail?
Emptied Gmail Trash and then realised an important client email thread was in there. Google Workspace account. Is there an admin recovery option?
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How to migrate Exchange to Office 365: need a reliable solution
Moving from on-premise Exchange Server 2016 to Microsoft 365. About 80 mailboxes. Need to keep shared mailboxes and public folders intact.
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How to convert AOL PFC to Outlook PST file?
Bulk emails in AOL Desktop client need converting to Outlook PST. IMAP sync steps plus a direct conversion method when Outlook keeps freezing.
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How to open AOL PFC files to view emails?
Found a .pfc file with no AOL credentials and imports keep failing. What the Personal Filing Cabinet format is and how to read it directly.
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How to remove PDF protection without the password?
I have a batch of PDF reports from an old vendor. They are restricted, so I can't copy text or print them. The vendor shut down years ago and nobody
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Can I recover a corrupt PDF file that will not open?
A 40 page contract PDF got damaged during a cloud sync. Acrobat says the file is damaged and could not be repaired. Some pages show blank when I
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How to convert PST emails to PDF files?
Legal asked for 3 years of project correspondence as PDFs. It all sits in one 6GB Outlook PST. Printing each email one by one is not realistic. Is
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How to convert MSG files to PDF with attachments?
I have around 900 individual .msg files exported from Outlook over the years. Client wants them archived as PDF, attachments included. One at a time
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How to repair a damaged OST file in Outlook?
Outlook crashed during a Windows update and now it says errors have been detected in the OST file. It will not open at all. ScanPST ran for an hour
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PST file not opening in Outlook, need recovery help
My archive PST refuses to open. Outlook says the file is not a valid personal folders file. It holds 8 years of client history. ScanPST found errors,
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How to convert OST to PST format?
Our Exchange server is being retired and IT disabled my mailbox before I archived anything. I still have the OST on disk. Outlook refuses to export
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How to divide a large PST file into smaller parts?
My main PST crossed 45GB and Outlook has become painfully slow with random hangs. I want to split it into smaller files, ideally by year, without
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How to view emails in a PST file without MS Outlook?
A departed employee left behind a PST and I need to check a few messages in it. The machine I am on has no Outlook license and I do not want to buy
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How to merge multiple PST files into one?
Over the years I collected 14 PST files from various machines and backups. I want one searchable archive. Outlook import freezes on the bigger files.
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Outlook says PST file reached maximum size limit
Outlook popped a warning that my PST reached its maximum size and now sending fails. I deleted a few thousand old emails but the file size on disk
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How to read an OST file without Exchange?
I pulled an OST file from a decommissioned laptop for an internal review. There is no Exchange account behind it any more. I only need to read the
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Cannot start Microsoft Outlook, window will not open
Since this morning Outlook shows Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window. Safe mode does not help. Rebooted twice. Where do I
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How to read MBOX files on a Windows PC?
Google Takeout handed me my Gmail archive as one giant MBOX file. Windows has no idea what to do with it. I do not run Thunderbird. How do I read
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How to view MSG files without Outlook?
A client sends me .msg files as email evidence for case files. My work laptop has no Outlook. Double clicking obviously fails. What is the lightest
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How to recover deleted emails from Outlook?
I shift-deleted a whole folder in Outlook thinking it was an old copy. It was not. Deleted Items has nothing since shift-delete skips it. Is there
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How to read EML files on Windows 10?
Our old ticketing system exported every ticket as an .eml file, thousands of them. Windows 10 Mail opens them one by one very badly and half the
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How to remove duplicate emails from Outlook?
After restoring from two overlapping backups my inbox shows almost everything twice, sometimes three times. Tens of thousands of messages. Manual
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How to save Yahoo emails to Outlook?
Moving off Yahoo Mail after 15 years. I want everything in Outlook on my PC, folders intact. IMAP sync started but keeps stalling around the same
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How to convert OLM to PST without a Mac?
A colleague left the company and handed over an OLM archive from Outlook for Mac. We are a Windows shop with no Mac in the building. Can this OLM
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How to perform PST to Office 365 migration?
We finished moving to Microsoft 365 and now have about 120 legacy PST files from old machines to bring into user mailboxes. I looked at the AzCopy
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How to repair a suspect database in SQL Server?
Power cut mid-write and now our production database shows SUSPECT in SSMS. Last full backup is 5 days old and losing those days would be very bad.
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SQL Server transaction log file growing out of control
Our LDF file hit 400GB against a 60GB data file and the drive is nearly full. I shrank it once and it grew right back within a week. What actually
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How to migrate Outlook Express to Outlook?
Retiring an old Windows XP machine that still runs Outlook Express. All the mail sits in DBX files. New machine has Outlook 2016. Direct import keeps
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How to convert Outlook contacts to vCard format?
Switching my phone to Android and the transfer app wants contacts as .vcf files. My 900 contacts live in Outlook. The built-in export does one
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How to transfer VCF files to Outlook?
Opposite problem to most people. I have 300 individual .vcf files exported from an old phone and need them inside Outlook contacts. Outlook imports
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How to migrate Windows Live Mail to MS Outlook?
Windows Live Mail finally died on my mother's PC after an update. Years of family mail sit in its storage folder as EML files. I want it all in
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How to backup Hotmail to Outlook PST file format?
My old Hotmail account is getting closed by the company. 14 years of mail in there. I want a local PST copy on my hard drive before access goes. What
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How to backup AOL mail to a local drive?
AOL keeps sending me account inactivity warnings and I do not trust it any more. I want the entire webmail account backed up locally, mail plus
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How to read emails from a Lotus Notes NSF file without installing Lotus Notes?
Legal handed me an NSF file from a departed employee's Lotus Notes mailbox. We moved off Notes years ago and have no license or server left. I only
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How to backup Yahoo emails to a hard drive?
After the Yahoo breach news I want a full local copy of my mailbox on an external drive. Not moving to another provider yet, just want my own backup.
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How to import Yahoo mail folders to Thunderbird?
Moving from Yahoo webmail to Thunderbird on my desktop. IMAP shows the inbox fine but half my custom folders never appear no matter how long I wait.
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Microsoft Exchange Server migration from 2007 to 2016
We are still on Exchange 2007 with about 150 mailboxes and need to reach 2016. I read there is no direct upgrade path between these versions. What is
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How to repair a corrupt priv1.edb file on Exchange Server?
Old Exchange 2007 box crashed and the information store will not mount. Eseutil /mh shows the priv1.edb in dirty shutdown state. Last good backup is
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How to export an Exchange mailbox to PST?
Need PST exports of 12 leaver mailboxes for retention. Ran New-MailboxExportRequest and PowerShell says the term is not recognized. Exchange 2013.
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How to import a PST file to Exchange Server?
New hire brought a 4GB PST from her previous job and wants it inside her Exchange mailbox rather than as a side archive. Exchange 2016 on-prem.
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Best way to backup an Office 365 mailbox locally?
Microsoft's shared responsibility page makes it clear they do not back up our mailbox content in any restore-friendly way. 40 users on Business
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How to migrate Office 365 from one tenant to another?
Our company got acquired and we must fold our Microsoft 365 tenant into the parent company tenant. 85 mailboxes plus OneDrive. Microsoft has no
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How to assign the ApplicationImpersonation role in Office 365?
Our migration tool refuses to touch other mailboxes and its docs say the admin account needs ApplicationImpersonation rights. Where exactly is this
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How to open an MDF file without SQL Server?
Client shipped us an MDF file from a decommissioned application for a data audit. We do not run SQL Server here. Some rows I need to inspect and
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Index corrupted in SQL Server, how to fix?
CHECKDB started reporting corruption on a clustered index of our orders table. Queries against it intermittently fail. Nonclustered indexes on the
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How to migrate a database from one SQL Server to another?
Moving a 300GB production database from an aging 2012 box to new hardware running SQL Server 2016. Downtime window is 4 hours on a Sunday.
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How to check free space in a SQL Server database?
Our data file is 500GB on disk but I suspect a lot of it is empty after a big archive purge. How do I see actual free space inside the files before
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How to create and schedule a full database backup in SQL Server?
Inherited a small SQL Server 2017 instance that has apparently never been backed up. I need a full backup now and then an automatic schedule.
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How to split PDF files into separate pages?
Scanner produced one 600 page PDF of individual invoices and accounting wants each invoice as its own file. Splitting page ranges by hand in a reader
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How to merge multiple PDF documents into one?
Putting together a tender submission: 34 separate PDFs that must become one document in a specific order, some of them password protected by other
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Can I compress a PDF file size without losing quality?
Government portal caps uploads at 10MB and my scanned application PDF is 48MB. Online compressors either butcher the text or want a subscription.
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How to remove a watermark from a PDF file?
Our own old company reports carry a giant DRAFT watermark that was never removed before archiving. We need clean copies for an audit. The source Word
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How to convert Thunderbird emails to PDF?
Insurance case needs about 400 Thunderbird emails preserved as PDFs with headers and attachments visible. Print to PDF one at a time loses
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Is it possible to recover data from a formatted hard disk partition?
Reinstalling Windows I formatted the wrong partition, D: with all my project archives instead of C:. Quick format, NTFS, nothing written to it since.
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Outlook send receive error 0x800CCC0E, how to fix?
Every send receive cycle throws 0x800CCC0E and mail sits in the outbox. Started after our ISP changed something. Webmail works fine so the account
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Outlook keeps prompting for password again and again
Outlook pops the credentials box every few minutes even though the password is correct and Remember is ticked. Entering it works for a while then the
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Microsoft Outlook emails stuck in Outbox folder
Half my outgoing mail sits in the Outbox for hours before sending, some never leaves. Small text-only messages go instantly. Ones with attachments
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Hyperlinks not working in Outlook emails
Clicking any link in an Outlook email does nothing, or sometimes shows a policy restriction message about my organization. Same links work fine
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Cannot open attachments in Outlook 2016
Double clicking attachments in Outlook 2016 either errors with cannot create file or opens nothing at all. Saving to desktop first then opening
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Contacts missing from Microsoft Outlook address book
My Contacts folder shows all 600 contacts but hitting To in a new email opens an empty address book, or sometimes shows an old list. How are these
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Outlook not showing calendar or calendar items disappeared
Opened Outlook this morning to a blank calendar. Weeks of appointments gone from view. OWA in the browser still shows everything, so the data exists.
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Outlook not receiving emails but can send
Sending works perfectly but nothing new arrives in Outlook since yesterday. Webmail shows the new messages sitting there. Send receive completes with
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How to setup a Gmail account in Outlook?
Adding my Gmail to Outlook keeps failing at the password step even though the password is definitely right. Sometimes it loops on the credentials box
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How to print Outlook emails in bulk with attachments?
Court case needs 250 specific emails printed with their attachments. Outlook print does one message at a time and skips attachments entirely. There
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How to restore a BKF file on Windows 10?
Found old NTBackup .bkf archives from a Windows XP server with files we suddenly need. Windows 10 has no NTBackup and the Microsoft restore utility
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How to recover deleted records from a SQL Server table?
A colleague ran DELETE on the customers table without a WHERE clause. 40,000 rows gone, transaction committed. Database is in full recovery model
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How to recover deleted records from a SQLite database?
Our app deleted rows from its SQLite file due to a bug. No backup because it is a local desktop app. Has VACUUM run? No idea. Are deleted SQLite rows
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How to access and view an Android SQLite database?
Debugging my Android app and I need to inspect its SQLite database, both on a real device and in the emulator. What is the current sane workflow for
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How to shrink a SQLite database file?
Our app's SQLite file is 4GB after we purged 80 percent of old rows, yet the file size has not dropped a single byte. Why does deletion not shrink
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Fix Named Pipes Provider error 40 in SQL Server
Application server suddenly cannot reach SQL Server: error 40, could not open a connection. Sometimes we also see Network Interfaces error 26 or a
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How to resolve MS SQL error 824 logical consistency I/O error?
Logs show error 824, logical consistency-based I/O error, incorrect checksum, on reads of one database. Occasionally an 823 appears too. Application
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Error restoring a SQL database from BAK file
Trying to restore a vendor supplied .bak and every attempt fails: first a version error, then after moving to a newer instance, media family errors
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How to migrate Outlook emails to Google Workspace?
Company is moving from Outlook with local PSTs to Google Workspace, 25 users. Some PSTs are 15GB plus. Google's own migration tool choked on the
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How to restore deleted emails from a Google Workspace account?
An employee cleaned out their Workspace mailbox including Trash before resigning. We need those messages for handover. As admin, what recovery
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How to move a Google Drive folder to another Google Drive account?
Moving 200GB from my old personal Google Drive to a new account. Share and copy loses ownership on files, download and reupload will take days on my
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How to remove duplicate emails from a Gmail account?
Years of forwarding and a botched migration left my Gmail with thousands of duplicate messages. Search operators help me find some but deleting
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How to remove duplicate emails in Office 365?
A migration that got run twice left every mailbox in our Microsoft 365 tenant with doubled mail. 30 users. Support says restore from backup, which we
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Cannot access Yahoo Mail on iPhone or iPad
Yahoo Mail stopped working in the iPhone Mail app, keeps saying cannot verify account. Same on my iPad. The Yahoo website logs in fine with the same
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Can I transfer data from Mac Outlook to Windows Outlook?
Switching from Mac to a Windows laptop. Outlook for Mac exports an OLM archive but Windows Outlook has no idea what an OLM is. Emails, contacts and
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How to view a SQL Server transaction log file?
Someone changed data in a production table and I need to see who and when. The LDF file holds this but it is binary. How do I actually read a SQL
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How to install and open SQL Server Management Studio?
New to SQL Server. Installed the database engine but there is no Management Studio anywhere in the Start menu. I thought SSMS came with SQL Server.
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How to rename a SQL Server database safely?
Need to rename a production database from AppDB_test to AppDB_prod. I know the T-SQL rename command but is there more to it? The application connects
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How to convert a SQL Server database to MS Access?
A field team needs a subset of our SQL Server data in a portable Access file they can use offline. I do not want to give them server access. How do I
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How to export SQL Server query results to a CSV file?
Need to hand a business analyst a CSV from a query every morning. Copy paste from the SSMS grid mangles commas and drops leading zeros. What is the
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How to schedule automatic SQL Server backups on Express edition?
Running SQL Server Express which has no SQL Agent, so the usual scheduled maintenance plan route is closed to me. How do people automate backups on
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How to view an AutoCAD DWG file without AutoCAD?
Contractor sent us DWG drawings but nobody here owns AutoCAD, and a licence just to look at a few files is absurd. How do I view and measure DWG
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Simplest method to view a PSD file without Photoshop?
Designer left and sent over dozens of layered PSD files. I just need to see what they look like and export flat images, no editing. Photoshop is not
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Best way to view an EPS file on Windows?
Client sent logo files as EPS. Windows Photos will not touch them and double clicking does nothing. I need to view them and ideally convert to PNG
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How to view STP and 3D CAD model files?
Manufacturer sent STP files of a part for review. I need to rotate and inspect the 3D model but we run no CAD package. What opens STEP files for
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Unable to play WMA files on phone or DVD player
Old voice recordings and music are all in WMA format from a Windows Media era. My phone and car will not play them. How do I convert WMA to something
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How to view an MDF disc image file for archive purposes?
Sorting old backups I found .mdf and .mds file pairs. These are not database files, they look like disc images from an old burning program. How do I
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How to extract a DMG file on Windows?
Someone sent me a .dmg file with documents inside. That is a Mac disk image and I am on Windows with no Mac available. How do I get the files out of
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Unable to open PCX image files, how to fix?
Archive of old scanned documents is all in PCX format. Windows Photos refuses them and most modern apps do not know PCX. I need to view them and
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How to recover data from a corrupt VHD file?
A Hyper-V VM will not boot after a host crash. The VHDX attaches but shows as RAW, or Windows offers to format it. There is important data on that
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How to recover a lost MS Access database password?
Inherited an old Access .mdb from a former employee that holds data we still use. It is password protected and nobody has the password. It is our own
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How to view lost or corrupted data on a corrupted thumb drive?
USB thumb drive with a work presentation now shows as corrupted, files invisible in Explorer though the drive still shows some space used.
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How to save Google Drive files to a USB drive?
Leaving a job and want my personal files off the company Google Drive onto a USB stick before my account closes. 40GB across many folders.
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How to open and save contents from DMG files on PC?
Received several DMG archives from a Mac colleague that hold project assets. I am on Windows and need to permanently save the contents out, not just
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How to read MSG files on Android and mobile?
Colleagues forward me Outlook .msg files and I am often out of the office on my Android phone. The phone has no idea what to do with a .msg
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How to add an email signature for all users in Exchange or Office 365?
Management wants a standard company signature with logo and disclaimer on every outgoing email across 60 users. Setting it per person in Outlook does
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How to migrate Lotus Notes to Exchange Server?
Finally retiring an old Domino server, moving 90 users to on-prem Exchange 2019. Mailboxes are NSF files, some with local encryption. What is the
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How to format a thumb drive on Mac for use with Windows?
Formatted a USB drive on my Mac and now my Windows PC and the office printer will not read it. I need one drive that works on both Mac and Windows.
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