How To Backup Yahoo Account Data And The Perks Of It

by Kinami C. Software Developer

Emailing has emerged as one of the most efficient way of communication in the recent arena. Almost everybody in each and every part of the world has employed emails for business as well as for personal purposes. Yahoo mail is one of the dedicated web services employed for safe and secured emailing. This service is absolutely free and has reached out to millions of people in the world. But there are factors which prove to be unsafe for the exchange of emails. Let us check out some.

Why Is Emailing Not Secure?

Yahoo being a reliable mail client plays its part in managing mails in an efficient manner. But external factors prove to be fatal for Yahoo accounts and the data stored within these accounts. These external factors maybe any hardware malfunction, malware, any virus attacks, etc. When we work with Yahoo all the mails get saved on the server but it does not keep a copy of the mail on the local machine. If someone hacks your account and deliberately deletes them, you will not have access to the mails anymore. No one can afford to take chances to with the crucial data stored in the accounts. This calls for the need to create backup of your Yahoo account

Yahoo Outages:

The time period between October and December in the year 2013 was filled with successive Yahoo outages. And the reason was a major issue in the hardware infrastructure. These outages completely blocked the users from accessing their Yahoo accounts for a long period of time. Not just this, the outages led to deletion of crucial mails from some user’s accounts. Also it deleted some accounts. Despite of rigorous efforts Yahoo was not able to recover all the accounts and their data.

Methods to Create Yahoo Backup

Some of the ways in which you can manually create backup of Yahoo accounts are:

Create Email Backup In Computer

You can create backup of your Yahoo account by using following steps:

Sign in your Yahoo account.
Open the messages/mails that you want to save.
Select the email content which you want to save
Open any of the program-MS Word, WordPad or Notepad and create a new file.
On the newly created file paste the content copied from Yahoo account.
Save the file.

Create Backup Of Attachments

Sign in your Yahoo account.
Open the messages/mails that have attachment(s) in it.
Click Download attachments or Download all to download them.
Create a new folder.
Save the downloaded attachments in the newly created folder.

Limitations of Manual Methods

Saving each and every email is a very tedious task if they are large in number.
They will not be saved in an email format.
Lot of time will be consumed while searching these files.

Alternate Method:

There also exists an alternate method which can let you know how to backup Yahoo. You can employ third party tool to easily take backup of your mails and contacts. You can backup of emails from all the folders of an account. The tool also gives you the facility to save the backup of mails in different formats such as; PST, EML, MSG and MBOX. Option of filtering is also provided to avoid backing up of unwanted mails. It maintains the email formatting unlike the manual methods.

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