Free4Life11
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Oh man this drives me nuts!!! My boss at work is one of those people who saves E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G. She's not the best with computers so sometimes has me do work on her computer and I am shocked at how many files she has. Literally, there are hundreds from years and years ago. She also saves EVERY email and it's the same thing, she's got messages from years ago.
Now I am doing a project and have to go through all the disks to try and find missing files...there are so many disks/files. Most are labeled incorrectly and I'll find about 5 different versions of the same file, but each on a different disk.
And on some disks, I kid you not, there is the file and the BACKUP of the file on the same disk! For example: "Letter to Deena," and "BACKUP-Letter to Deena" were both on the same disk.
I can understand saving important things, but you really should go through things periodically and get rid of unnecessary items. It just ends up making everything more confusing.
Now I am doing a project and have to go through all the disks to try and find missing files...there are so many disks/files. Most are labeled incorrectly and I'll find about 5 different versions of the same file, but each on a different disk.
And on some disks, I kid you not, there is the file and the BACKUP of the file on the same disk! For example: "Letter to Deena," and "BACKUP-Letter to Deena" were both on the same disk.
I can understand saving important things, but you really should go through things periodically and get rid of unnecessary items. It just ends up making everything more confusing.
They have to share a computer and she can never find anything she needs because of the millions of places the boss puts things.
