84: On a Cleaning Jag

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4.8 • 555 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Email time! In this month's Q&A, we talk about Spring cleaning and strategies for organizing electronics with limited storage space, overusing ellipses and other Internet chat habits, long-lost Usenet posts, the great turn-of-the-century capacitor calamity, a mea culpa and backgrounder on the McDonald's coffee lawsuit, and more. Support the Pod! Contribute to the Tech Pod Patreon and get access to our booming Discord, your name in the credits, and other great benefits! You can support the show at: https://patreon.com/techpod

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0:00.0	Uh-oh.
0:03.0	Resigned sigh.
0:04.6	My Google Drive, since I started using Google Docs in like 2007 or 6 or something like that, I had just been saving everything in the route except for the stuff that we work on together.
0:15.7	Oh, wait.
0:16.6	So are you kidding?
0:18.3	No.
0:19.2	Everything in the route?
0:20.9	I mean, unless it was in a shared folder from somebody else, yes, everything was in the brief.
0:25.1	Wow.
0:25.9	Okay, go on.
0:26.8	It was bad.
0:28.3	Like, I realized I made an error when I looked at how many files were in there and it was like 36,000 or something.
0:32.9	It was an insane number of files.
0:35.1	Dude, what?
0:35.9	Hang on.
0:36.5	I'm looking at mine right now.
0:37.9	I would estimate the number of files in my Google Drive route at maybe three dozen.
0:44.6	Could you say that number again?
0:46.3	It was in the thousands.
0:48.1	What?
0:49.1	It was a lot.
0:49.7	It took a good two hours of copying them in the biggest chunks that the browser would accommodate.
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