DEVONTECH STORAGE FILES

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I AM DOING A FULL REORGANIZATION OF MY FILES OF 25 YEARS. THOUSANDS!

I WAS LOADED WITH DUPLICATES. I EXPORT ALL FILES FROM 4 DTP DATABASES ONTO MY HARD DRIVE TO FIND DUPLICATES WITH WHAT HAD BECOME MY MASTER FILE ORGANIZER.

I KEPT ENCOUNTERING “DEVONTECH STORAGE” FILES. AFTER TRYING TO FIGURE OUT IF THEY WERE DUPS OR WHATEVER, I GAVE UP AND STARTED DELETING THEM. PROBABLY 20 OR SO.

MY PLAN AFTER I HAD ALL MY FILES SQUARED AWAY ON MY DRIVE WAS TO ENTER A MAJOR SUBSET OF THE NOW RATIONAL FILES BACK INTO DEVONPRO.

  1. WHAT SHOULD I DO? JUST DO IT, DOESN’T REALLY MATTER. INDEX FILES RATHER THAN ENTER THEM. DELETE CURRENT DATA BASES AND START OVER. CURSE AND SHOUT.

  2. I STILL HAVE MANY OF THESE FILES IN FOLDERS I HAVE NOT ENTERED BACK INTO MY MASTER FILE. SHOULD I KEEP THEM? MANY WILL END UP IN A DIFFERENT FOLDER THAN THEY STARTED IN. WHERE WOULD I PUT THE DTECH STORAGE FILES.

TOM WILSON

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The DEVONtech Storage files are included in exports to the Finder. They contain metadata about the location, etc. of the document files in the database from which they were exported.

You can delete them if you wish.

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