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Categories and Priorities of Personal Files

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As I’ve written earlier in my story of files losses and methods to prevent this, I’ve tried to keep all possible information throughout the time and space. But soon I understood this information is not homogeneous and different kinds of files differ significantly in the manner they should be handled.

So I decided to make some background classification and prioritizing of files I have and I work with. Well, actually, it was not done strictly before my researches, as science requires, but evaluated during this research. But who cares.

Classes of information are formed on how I do handle it, how I do access or modify it, and how I do share or do not share it. Priorities are subjectively weighted based on the cost of the information loss and leak, and these costs include both money and torments.

Here they are: [Read more…]

The Luggage I Lug

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For the last decade I’ve produced tons of personal information: photos, documents, drafts, notes, ideas, etc. Almost all these files are unique, since they were never published, and probably will never be. In most cases they are private and sensitive either for me or for other people I contact with.

Here is the short story of the ways I handled the information I had, of my mistakes, losses and torments up to the nowadays, and what I’m going to write about in this series of blog posts. [Read more…]