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How often do you revisit locally saved Internet files and webpages?
RoGeorge:
Been cleaning some disks, and found various directories with saved for later. All kind of files, projects, schematics, PDFs, webpages, some crawled websites, etc. You'd be surprised how few of them are still online today, 10-20 years later. Even more surprising is how many of them seem now irrelevant.
Do you have similar data hoarding habits?
If so, does the saved data look obsolete now, and how often do you revisit your archives? Ever happen to come back and make some project you postponed years ago, or read some pdf/article you saved back them?
NiHaoMike:
I always keep a local copy of datasheets, that way I will always know where to find them.
RAPo:
I put all my websites on getpocket.com. Index and archive them with keywords. Looking back articles when needed which can be as often as 3x a week,
nctnico:
I always have all major datasheets, specifications and documents with every project I do. Even if it means having duplicates. Getting a datasheet from your own hard drive is much easier compared to trying to find it online. I'll probably have quite a few datasheets that can not even be found online nowadays.
RoGeorge:
Datasheets are always useful, indeed. Was asking more about those kind of files one keeps saving them on the Desktop, or inside the Downloads directory for later, then once in a while after they pile up too much, make a new "Desktop YYYY-MM-DD" folder somewhere and move them there to clean up the desktop, and so on repeated over years. ;D
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