Category: Geeks r Us
I am sure that many of you use GMail, so hopefully, someone will be able to answer this. Searches turn up nothing. In Google Takeout, it gives you the option of what to archive. I hit "select all". But then, under that, it says things like "Gmail, keep checkbox checked", "Youtube keep, checkbox checked.". What does that mean? If I uncheck it, will all of my e-mail, etc. be deleted once it is archived? If not, then how do I do this? Thanks.
Hi,
Those checkboxes, including keep, are all different products. All your data will still be there once it is archived. Used this myself and it works pretty well.
HTH,
KJ4UFX
Thanks. *smile* So how do I empty my GMail account, for example? I have four addresses. Two are from this year, one is from five years ago, and one is from nine years ago. I have never emptied any of them.
LOL, those would definitely be things to archive first, haha. The only way I know of requires the standard view. I forget the key sequence right now, but you select all messages, and it gives you the option to select all messages, not just the ones on the current page. Then you can trash them, and delete them.
HTH!
It definitely does! *smile* I didn't think that this was accessible!
It's definitely gotten better over the years, as the webapp standards for HTML have had accessibility added to them, and websites and screen readers have learned to get along using those standards. A few years ago, it was a lot more painful using the standard Gmail view with a screen reader, for instance. Nowadays, while there are certain things that may still be more comfortable doing in the basic view, you can do just about everything using the standard view, if you're willing to rethink your approach a little. And now that we have chromebooks with a builtin screen reader, and so many things are either working or being made to work using those accessible standards...
Sorry if this post is a little messy. Not fully awake right now LOL.
No, you made perfect sense. I am one who prefers the basic view, but I am glad that the standard one works, especially for this. As for Chromebooks, they sounded interesting until I learned that you can only really use them while online, as you can't save files in them or to a thumb drive.
Hi,
You can, actually. While it's not a point often made, it is doable from what I understand. My thing is they're basically just browsers. I know, everything's becoming a webapp these days, but nothing can quite replace the Linux console with a properly configured command-line or textual interface.
Interesting! I didn't know that Linux has a tui under the console! I thought it was only commandline, which I don't mind, but I'm used to DOS, and the Linux one seems foreign to me.
Linux isn't just command line anymore.