People talk about liberating themselves by recycling their paper files, but what about computer files?
It is not just that I have half of mine in one cloud and half in the other. It is that several times, due to computer emergencies, I have transferred files chaotically over the years. For example: within Dropbox there are files of materials for individual courses taught, and then there is a file called “Courses”–in which I have files for the same courses. There are several layers of this at some points, and it would be quite a task to reorganize.
I am very tempted to just throw out a lot of this without even reading it, so I can actually see and manage whatever it is I have left. It is like getting rid of books — I periodically sell them off or give them away just so as not to have so many that I cannot go right to what I need.
Have you done this to your computer files? Did it mean you inadvertently lost an old file you really wanted? Did you survive?
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
I’ve survived every dumping. The files I miss are the ones I lost during crashes. Somehow my computer knows just when to crash and do me the most damage….
There should be a spring cleaning season for computer users….