Spring Cleaning #30: Take a Load Off Our Drives

For the last few years I have been periodically weeding my z-drive and p-drive folder. I did go ahead and do an extra specially good job of cleaning them out this month. I also had new, stricter guidelines to follow when choosing to save, delete or move items. I have decided not to save timesheets farther back than 3 months. I could save them on floppy disc but I am sure that I would lose, collect or corrupt the discs.

I am sure that I had old files from "many" years ago. I did find that I was fairly well organized and understand the basics of the different drives (z, p and s).

Spring Cleaning #29: Email

I had lots of email saved that I wanted to be able to refer back to. I thought virtual computer space was supposed to replace hard paper copies. Oops, I was wrong. After carefully adding to my folders I had to go back in and delete all the emails with attachments! What a pain if you want to keep information. I ended up revising my theories on keeping files. My new theory is that if the information hasn't been saved to Harriet or a supervisor hasn't saved it to the p-drive, it really isn't important. I have now deleted thousands of emails or redirected them to my personal email account. For the time being I am keeping my organizational folders even if they are empty until I am sure I won't be using them.

I go through my old emails periodically during my down time at circ or in the drive-thru. There are always slow periods throughout the year for major weeding.