How much can my AOL filing cabinet hold?

[KV]

I am uplaoding mp3 files to my filing cabinet and I’d like to know how much it can hold.

[MinkMan]

Your AOL “Filing Cabinet” is actually located on your own hard drive, so it can hold as much stuff as your hard drive has space for. When you add items to your Filing Cabinet you are actually either downloading them from the internet to your local hard drive or just copying the files from one place on your computer to another. There’s no “uploading” involved. (“Uploading” is the term for when you transfer a file from your computer to another, like when you send an email attachment. “Downloading” is the reverse - when you are receiving a file to your computer from another.)

You will get a warning if the filing cabinet gets to big, but the size at which you get warned is adjustable by you. In the AOL client (At least in AOL6.0 other versions may be different), go to Settings on the toolbar, then Preferences, then Filing Cabinet)

[KV]

maybe I should have been a little clearer. I am sending email to myself with the mp3 files as attachments, then I can download them from my saved mail from another computer.

[MinkMan]

About your online mailbox

Your online mailbox can hold up to 1000 pieces of New Mail, 550 pieces of Old Mail, and 550 pieces of Sent Mail per screenname online at any given time. However, this mail is subject to the following time limits:

New Mail:
Unread mail remains in your New Mail list for about 27 days. Once you have read an e-mail message, the AOL software automatically transfers it to your Old Mail list. To save mail as if you had not read it, click the Keep as New button.

Old Mail:
Mail remains in the Old Mail list in your mailbox for about 3 days.

Sent Mail:
Mail you send remains in the Sent Mail list in your mailbox for up to 27 days until your recipient reads it. Once it is read, it remains in your mailbox about two days more.

The maximum size of an email attachment is 16 MB. I don’t know of any limits on the total size of your online mailbox. You might want to call tech support at 1-888-346-3704 or go to KW:Help or KW:Customer Service for live online help. Someone there should be able to help you out.

[ultrafilter]

So yeah…if you’ve got 1000 new mail messages, each with a 15 mB attachment, you’re taking up 15 gB on AOL’s servers. I don’t know the exact amount you’re allowed to have, but I can guarantee you it’s a lot smaller than that.

[Jack_Batty]

[wise old owl]

Let’s find out.
One.
Tah-hooooo.
Three.
{crash}

Three.
[/wise old owl]

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[Ike_Witt]

Jack, thanks for the good laugh.

[GraceTX]

I don’t know what it’s defaulted to, but my filing cabinet has every email I’ve received since April, 2001. I probably get at least 30 emails a day on this account so that’s a lot of mail. MinkMan is right though. You set the limits.

From AOL “You can set your Personal Filing Cabinet to keep copies of the mail you send and read by changing the preferences to suit your needs. From the My AOL menu on the toolbar, select Preferences, then click on the Mail button. Click Personal Filing Cabinet in the Preferences window to set other options such as the size limits for your PFC.”

BTW, love the old lollipop commercial Jack Batty. I got a kick out of that blast from the past.

[Arken]

I thought he was just keeping all that AOL junk-mail CDs in a filing cabinet.

Now they’re sending them out in metal boxes. :rolleyes: