I am a computer pack rat

[chrishansenhome]

One of the chores I have to do each January the first is to gather up all the previous year's emails and place them, month by month, in a folder marked with the previous year's name. So this morning I added a folder "2005" to each email category and moved the folders for each month of 2005 into it (I use Eudora). Then I created a new folder "January 2006" in each category.

I confess: I'm an email packrat.

For certain mailing lists, I have all emails dating back to 1996, sorted by month and year. Others I just place in a year folder, not bothering with the month.

Why do I do this? In one case, it helps with my US tax return (Currency Converter). In other cases, it's helped me with work situations. Most of the time, however, it does nothing. The emails sit there, clogging up my computer: I have 1.64 GB of email on the disk.

Will I stop? Not until they pry the mouse out of my cold dead hands.

Comments

[pyrzqxgl.livejournal.com]

I have just no end of mail folders.

For more general stuff, year ones going back to 1990. Sent mail also gets sorted into sent mail folders by year.

Some people and mailing lists have their own folders.

Particular topics/categories may have their own folders as well, for example orders, auctions, coupons and sales, subscription information (both for mailing lists and for sites I have accounts on), even LiveJournal notifications.

Work mail is currently sorted into any of 21 work folders depending on what it's about.

[vasilatos]

Huh. I just counted. I have 58 working mail folders.
No idea what that means.