After many, many hours (many more than anticipated, and many more late at night this week post-homecoming), I’ve finished doing the last e-mail extracts from thirteen years of PST archives. Which means I can actually be in the office today and not worry that the new automated policies will prevent me from accessing them.
(Though I note that … um … still able to do so with the one test PST file I left online. Nice.)
Ye gods — that was probably a 8-10 gigabytes of data filtered through, mostly in the last couple of weeks. I now have refreshed memory of pretty much my entire Denver career (well, as refreshed as sifting through subject lines can be). And I have a new respect for suggestions that subject lines be made informative, rather than witty (cf. this blog post title).
On the bright side, those extracts are now on my hard drive, being indexed by Google Desktop, which means that, to the extent that they are at all of value, they will be accessible, rather than locked away on multiple archive CDs.
That means that, once I catch up with a bit of, oh, real work, I should be able to resume normal activities hither and thither, which will be nice (for me, at least).
8-10 GB of…mostly text files? Holy cow.
Well, that’s including attachments.