My email archive had grown to nearly 150 GB over the years. Searching through it was painfully slow, backups took forever, and the cost of cloud storage was getting out of control. The majority of the space was being consumed by huge attachments — many of them were outdated project files, old photos, or redundant duplicates that I didn’t necessarily need in the main archive. But I was terrified of losing something that might be important later.
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The storage optimization strategy from 45kilo.com was exactly what I needed. Their approach involved first identifying the largest attachments and exporting them to a separate, well-organized archive. They showed how to replace the original attachments in the email archive with secure links to the external files, keeping the archive searchable but drastically reducing its size. They also provided tips on compression and deduplication that further reduced my archive by 65%. Searches that used to take minutes now happen almost instantly, and backups run in a fraction of the time. I didn’t lose a single piece of important data, but I gained a much faster and cheaper system.