[ale] End of year digital clean up?

[Boris Borisov]

What about EMP :)

My data is disorganized.  I should give it thought.

On Mon, Jan 4, 2021, 13:02 Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

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>
> On January 4, 2021 12:49:05 PM EST, DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> >I've had my list of new-year digital cleanup tasks for
> >about a decade, but it can always be improved.
>
> Indeed!
> >
> >What do you do every year to clean up your data, email, photos,
> >documents, ebooks, backups, retired credentials?
>
> Create a new email folder called "last year" and dump all old email into
> it. Set outgoing autoreply to "I'm sorry but all the email from prior to
> today was deleted by court order. Unless I have your address on an approved
> sender's list this will be forwarded to the FBI, NSA, and Microsoft for
> analysis". Delete all folders named "last year" because it has a space in
> the name.
> >
> >How do you find these things later?
>
> Why would I even want to? New year. New ways to lose things things. Last
> year was a total wash anyway so a complete failure of all hard drives and
> backups actually sounds plausible now. Purge like it's a new eating
> disorder diagnosis! Digital vomitus. It's better than the 'rona and you can
> always claim "fog brain made me do it".
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