Best practices for Outlook for Mac 2011

Best practices for Outlook for Mac 2011

iPhone Storage Fills up with Calendar and Reminder Data

Problem Description:

My iPhone 6 storage fills up to 100% from Calendar and Reminder data.

There seems to be a bug in iPhone 6 that fills in 100% of available storage on my phone. Earlier, I had storage problem due to large amount of photos and videos, which I had to painfully delete from my phone. But, Calendar, which I least care takes around 6 GB of my iPhone space. The overall problem, I guess, was activating iCloud account. I would highly recommend not to activate iCloud account.

Finally after total frustration I had to reset my iPhone to factory setup. I didn't have time and patient after almost three to four days of serious research and so many tries to restore from backup.

Here are the things I tried but didn't work for me, probably for you it might work:

Deleting iCloud Account

I think this problem is related to iCloud account. So, try removing iCloud from your phone and see if it works. If you still need iCloud you can always log back in again and carefully unselect Calendar, so that you don't fill up your storage again.

Settings> Mail, Contacts, Calendars> iCloud and sign-out from iCloud.

Sign Out will take some time, probably ten minutes or so.

Restoring to earlier backup

This option also didn't work for me because my iPhone used to freeze and storage was still 100% occupied.

If anyone has any solution please comment.

Mac : Outlook 2011 : Archiving Emails to save space on Exchange Server

I use Outlook 2011 for Mac as my primary Email client backed by Microsoft Exchange server. We have limited storage space on Exchange Server, to a limit that every two months, I get email message that my storage is almost full. As I mentioned, nothing unusual, everyone faces this problem.

Here are the list of problems, I wanted to solve. I wish, I had unlimited Exchange storage so that these problem would not exist in first place.

1. Automatically move my emails to a backup folder or drive.
2. I should be able to retrieve my old emails pretty easily

Here are the list of Solutions

Manually backing up emails into backup data file, 'On My Computer'

Export the selected messages to 'On My Computer' folder of the Outlook 2011

Moving emails to gmail A/C

Create a gmail A/C and move all the old email there. This solution might not work for everyone because of corporate security requirement.


Please see the URL below in Reference section. Those article provide a great deal of details around concept with which we are dealing with here.

Reference

Archive your Outlook 2011 Exchange messages using OEAO

How to create local folders in Outlook 2011 for mac?

Basic Folders On My Computer

POP/IMAP Accounts

What’s the Difference Between POP3, IMAP, and Exchange?

Connect Outlook for Mac 2011 to Gmail’s IMAP service

FBAR Information Disclosure to IRS

Brief Information on FBAR

If you or your spouse combined account balance in Indian bank accounts crossed more than 10,000 $ (i.e., 6,30,000 INR) at any given day in 2014 you need to file FBAR (Foreign Bank Account Report).

OR

If you or your spouse's combined Asset value in Foreign Countries crossed more than 50,000$ at any given day in 2014 then you need to file FBAR. (Assets includes: Bank deposits, Stocks value, Mutual fund values, Partnership investment value in any business, Life Insurance account value-Do not include house, land, apartment values)

 

IRS will not assess any tax on this amount but failing in disclosing this information may result in IRS penalties.

Last day for FBAR submission is Jun 15, 2015

Should I file it?

I had the same question. I discussed this with couple of my friends and used my judgement to file it. I have been hearing about this from last few years and every year, during tax filing season, I would fall into the same dilemma. One of my friend suggested this - "If you want to be in USA for a longer period of time, for now, then you should file it."

Indian government is coming up with detailed plan to track all of your assets through Aadhar, so it is just a matter of time, when India & USA government agencies, including Banking sector will have  tie-up to exchange information. When this becomes mandatory or strictly enforced, then it would be really hard to file for one big lump-sum amount. The question would be - "How did you accumulate everything in one year". Anyway, that was my two cents. So, use your judgement.

Filing Information

I filed this through my CPA who charges $20 for a single Joint Account. You could reach out to him at  taxfiling@taxcooler.com. If you would like to give my reference it would be Mukesh Kumar (mukeshietk@gmail.com)