I’ve kind of got a plan. The stuff is on my computer now and hopefully I work out how to avoid it being yoinked again when I unlink… I do have doubles on another cloud storage so I can potentially delete some of the largest files. I’m having to fight the computer on backup though. It keeps hiding the physical backup option and directing me to the cloud option… I kept digging and found a Win 7 backup option (WTF) which then failed. I do have an optical drive that could be used to make a cd copy of just these files but 1. cheap crappy thing doesn’t work and 2. storage capacity. I don’t have dvd discs and there’s no cd drive on the computer. If this little bitch keeps testing me I actually do have the ability to remove the hard drive and screw it into an external drive enclosure and rip the data off it that way. However I don’t want to mess with it drastically like that before being able to reliably back up everything else on there. And I’m still in the process getting my photos off Facebook to store locally in preparation for potentially deactivating so I need to back those up too. Also I don’t want to risk damaging that drive while doing that because I need a Windows computer to play games. I did manage to get my hands on a Windows 10 iso which I could revert it to once backup is sorted but then I would be left with an outdated insecure system. I could just buy a massive thumb drive and drag files on manually just to get myself some breathing room with freeing up my email. Some of the files are just large ie. security camera video clips.