Guides

Rescuing decades of email, step by step

Practical, tested guides from the project that started EmailAttic — no fluff, written from doing it for real.

How I consolidated 736,000 family emails from 236 backup files

The full story: the inventory, the dedupe, the ANSI-vs-Unicode PST mess — and the "redundant" temp files that secretly held 13,000 messages nothing else had.

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What to do with a deceased parent's email account

The one urgent thing, what Google, Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo actually allow, the overlooked mail on their old computers — and turning it all into a family archive.

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You downloaded Google Takeout — now what?

What's actually inside those zips, what an MBOX file is, how to open it safely without uploading your mailbox anywhere — and turning the snapshot into a lasting archive.

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Old Outlook PST files: how to open them without Outlook

ANSI vs Unicode, why new Outlook can't open them, safe local tools — and the extraction-and-accounting process that tells you which backups can finally go.

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Coming soon

How to combine multiple email accounts into one archive

Sent and received together, one folder per person, duplicates gone.