The one difference that I am still coming to grips with is that files to the same person are grouped together and nested even when the subject line changes so some archives can be quite large. If you do an ad-hoc backup it is far quicker to complete than a scheduled backup, I mentioned this to their technical support department and they say a fix should solve this in the 7.1 release. I later found the reason for the ‘close to double’ size of backup file was that it was also storing the EM Client 6 data in the same package, when two weeks later I told it to stop saving the EM Client 6 data files – this could have been done instantly at upgrade - but I am definitely a belt and braces and safety pin person - it dropped back to around the pre upgrade file size. For those using Windows 7 you will find that files over 4GB cannot normally be written to a USB stick or external hard drive so assuming you have a Network backup either to a Windows 10 PC and then write the file or just copy to another PC for safe storage. When you backup your data – this can be automatic – manually the time taken is roughly the same even though the file size was close to double. A backup of this in EM Client 6 was just under 5GB, the first backup after upgrade was just over 9GB quite a large rise but the way files are stored has changed so searches for a single word are now a lot faster. My locally stored files go back over many years and together with various folders for specific subjects mean I currently have over 5000 current emails.

If you have a licenced paid for version store your licence number somewhere else as I found I was back in 30 day trial mode even after a reboot, I reported this to EM Client who will no doubt issue a fix. On my three machines this took between 35 and 55 minutes. This was very different and be prepared to have lunch or do something else for a while while it happens mainly because the way images are stored is different and this takes time for the program to implement but you are kept informed by an onscreen bar as to progress. Of course there have been many fixes over the four years but they are offered to download and install very quickly and the look and feel of the interface did not change.

If you have one or two email accounts EM Client is FREE, up to six accounts can be used on up three different machines with a Professional licence.

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