A video demo of how to export selected Gmail messages to your hard disk in either EML, HTML or TXT format, using Mozilla Thunderbird and an addon. Note that this can be used with any email account that can be configured with Thunderbird.

Before you watch the video

Please download the following setup files:

• Mozilla Thunderbird 2
• ImportExportTools addon
• Gmail IMAP Account Setup addon (optional - only needed if you don’t want to enter Gmail IMAP configuration manually)

Now just watch the video and and follow the instructions. As a summary of the video, just install Thunderbird and the two addons, add and open your Gmail IMAP account, navigate to the messages you need to download, right click and ‘Save selected messages’

Folder Size Shell Extension is a very handy freeware utility that lets you see the sizes of all the subfolders within a folder, in a hierarchical fashion - great way to find out why your mighty(?) 200GB hard drive is cramped for free space.

Once you run it, it sits as a tab in the Properties context menu (yes, the one where you right-click-on-folder-then-click-Properties). You can then drill down into child folders, sort by name/size, change the units between KB/MB/GB …

You can download the utility from Softpedia or from PCWorld