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[Humor] Path lengths - what's your longest?   [Humor]

By: Laurent Duchastel     Montréal, Québec  
Date: Oct 23,2014 at 22:27
In Response to: [Humor] Path lengths - what's your longest? (Peter Shute)

> Yes, I should have noted the possibility of long paths being caused by
> high levels of organisation. However I've noticed that the problem here
> is often caused by what appears to be organisation, but on inspection is
> really a mess. People copy entire branches of files into lower levels of
> the same branch, things like that. Then they can't find it, so they copy
> it all again to another part.

Something like

Letter.docx
Copy of Letter.docx
Copy of Copy of Letter.docx
Copy of Copy of Copy of Letter.docx

:-)

Few years ago, I helped someone with his computer. I found 8,000+ files on it. Once removed copies of copies, duplicated content under different filenames, and deeply nested copy of folders, it went down to 125 different files...


Laurent Duchastel

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