TechLife Australia – September 2019

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right-click your exFAT partition and choose

Resize, this time using the slider to take up all the

empty space to its left. Finally, click OK followed

by Apply to complete the non-destructive switch.

ROBMEAD-GREEN

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MSG files won’t open

I saved some emails as MSG files in

Outlook, but now I can’t open them again. Is

this linked to Microsoft’s poor system for

changing default apps?

STEPH HENSHAW

Steph was unable to choose Microsoft Outlook

as the default choice for opening MSG files when

she right-clicked them. In the end, though, she

fixed her problem by performing a repair of her

Microsoft Outlook installation – go to Settings >

Apps, select Microsoft Office or Microsoft Outlook

and choose Modify, then try the Quick Repair

option first, followed by the more thorough

Online Repair if it doesn’t work – which restored

Outlook as an option.

You don’t necessarily need Outlook installed to

read MSG files, however – there are many

third-party viewers out there, including

MailViewer (www.coolutils.com/MailViewer),

which is completely free for personal use.

CATHERINE ELLIS

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exFAT file conversion

query

I have an external 3TB drive with 500GB of

data on it, formatted as NTFS. Can I convert

this to exFAT without losing any data?

WAY N E S C OW E N

Sadly no – the recommended, and safest,

option is to copy the files to another drive before

reformatting the drive to exFAT and copying or

moving them back. If the drive is less than half

full, however, another option would be to use a

tool like AOMEI Partition Standard (free, http://www.

disk-partition.com). Once installed, launch the

program. Right-click the current NTFS partition

and choose Resize Partition. Shrink the partition

to free up enough space to fit your data on, then

click OK. You’ ll see unallocated space appear

next to the shrunk partition – right-click this and

choose Create Partition – make sure its file

system is exFAT, make a note of the drive letter

it’s been allocated and click OK again.

Review your changes and then click Apply to

make them – be prepared to reboot if necessary.

Once complete, move the data from your NTFS

partition to your exFAT one, then reopen

Partition Standard. Right-click the now-empty

NTFS partition and choose Delete Partition.

The quick option is best, so click OK. Now

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If there’s space, you can switch

to exFAT without data loss.