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Just realized corporate discovery is basically digital archaeology

Spent three days digging through a client's old email backups from 2018 looking for a single contract attachment. Learned that nobody ever archived anything properly, just kept hitting 'forward' for five years. Has anyone else found weird time capsules in old server dumps?
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noah_barnes
Oh man, that's wild. A buddy of mine works in IT for a law firm and he once found a folder called "misc" that was just full of screenshots of people's desktop backgrounds from 2010. I swear, digital hoarding is a real thing.
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danieltaylor
Isn't it crazy how people just accumulate that stuff without even thinking? @noah_barnes your buddy probably stumbled onto someones digital time capsule, I bet half of them don't even remember taking those shots.
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