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A virtual mess: Are you a secret digital hoarder? « Notes Quotes 2020 — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 04:12:32 +0000

[...] save everything because I’m afraid if I delete it, I’ll need it someday,” Barbara Vey says on her Publishers Weekly blog. “I know this isn’t [...]

By: Andrew Bernier

Andrew Bernier — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 05:02:46 +0000

I don’t mind digital hoarding if it’s organized. That’s the nice thing about the digital space… it’s so easy to make things look clean.

By: Nancy Naigle

Nancy Naigle — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:07:49 +0000

Oh Kim, your friend (don’t the abusers always say that??) can be the “digital hoarder” poster child!

By: Nancy Naigle

Nancy Naigle — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:04:52 +0000

Is the first step admitting you’re a digital hoarder? I’m just not ready yet.
I think we need a t-shirt for this one!

By: Dawn Chartier

Dawn Chartier — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 23:05:32 +0000

I guess this is me too, Barbara. I actually save my manuscripts on the laptop and on my flash drive and never delete a single scene even if I’ll never use it.

One can’t be too careful right?

By: Kim Hughes

Kim Hughes — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:54:39 +0000

This sounds like someone I work with!! Her email has over 6000 in deleted. 12000 in saved emails and over 9000 in the inbox. Yes people that is thousands and not a misprint!! People wonder why she can never find anything. Bad thing is that what she keeps is not always needed stuff. She has email for sales from department stores from 2009. Sorry but I think they have expired by now. At least delete the junk. LOL

By: Dianna Love

Dianna Love — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:40:01 +0000

LOL – I tend to keep everything for a while then it makes me crazy to see all that stuff and I get into “Delete Mode.” I still keep more than I should. I love that term “digital hoarding” and agree – we need a support group. Great blog, Barbara and tell your son he’s just too wise some days.

By: Joan Schulhafer

Joan Schulhafer — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 18:36:42 +0000

I believe this is an actual epidemic. Think 1918 but not deadly.

By: Ellie Miller

Ellie Miller — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:29:08 +0000

I’m a hoarder to the extent that even when I replace my computer (twice in roughly eight years) I make sure that the contents of the old hard drive are transferred intact onto the new one. File space isn’t really a problem, but the area I find hardest to deal with is cleaning out emails on even a semi-regular basis, so I’ve made it a sort of point of honor (with some exceptions I really think I might need) to keep no more than one previous month’s worth of active correspondence alive in my Old Mail box on AOL. An interesting note anent hoarding, BTW, came from my lawyer (we were redoing some stuff and the subject arose) after I said , “It’s on my computer!” He then asked, “Is your pass word stored or protected?” He told me that he’d come to a screeching halt in in the middle of trying to close out a fairly complicated estate recently because the deceased had EVERYTHING stored on his computer and no one in the family knew the password.

By: Missy Taylor

Missy Taylor — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:18:46 +0000

ditto!