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Poll: Have you kept all the files of your projects since you first started your translation career?
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Allison Wright (X)
Allison Wright (X)  Identity Verified
Португалия
Local time: 08:26
I did - until I emigrated in 2008 May 2, 2011

I loaded my huge paper based archive (catalogued, referenced, etc.) onto my one-tonne truck and personally delivered to the waste paper recovery plant in Harare, Zimbabwe. Having worked for the head office of this papermaking conglomerate many years ago, I was able to speak to the foreman (who recognised me) and request immediate, while-u-wait shredding. Now, that is service! I managed to buy a soft drink on the way home with the money issued for the waste.
3.5 inch disks received a rather... See more
I loaded my huge paper based archive (catalogued, referenced, etc.) onto my one-tonne truck and personally delivered to the waste paper recovery plant in Harare, Zimbabwe. Having worked for the head office of this papermaking conglomerate many years ago, I was able to speak to the foreman (who recognised me) and request immediate, while-u-wait shredding. Now, that is service! I managed to buy a soft drink on the way home with the money issued for the waste.
3.5 inch disks received a rather more primitive destruction method involving a screwdriver and a pair of scissors. Recent files were put on memory stick, but I may as well not have bothered.
The archive boxes were donated to the company I worked for at the time .
Altogether very cathartic! ▲ Collapse
 
Gianluca Marras
Gianluca Marras  Identity Verified
Италия
Local time: 09:26
английский => итальянский
99.9% May 2, 2011

Basically all of them.
Most of them have been very useful for other translations.
 
Christel Zipfel
Christel Zipfel  Identity Verified
Local time: 09:26
Член ProZ.com c 2004
итальянский => немецкий
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Responded "other" May 2, 2011

In fact, I probably would have kept them all or most of them, but I started, too, my business with a typewriter and so have kept only some interesting paper documents (originals or carbon copies) or, later on, a good number of floppy disks. But as soon as CDs or DVDs were available, I have kept everything, unless I was requested explicitly not do to so.
 
Marzia Nicole Bucca
Marzia Nicole Bucca  Identity Verified
Австралия
Local time: 17:26
английский => итальянский
+ ...
Me too! May 3, 2011

Simon Bruni wrote:

I chuck everything on a DVD at the end of each year.

Cheers
Simon


I do the same, it's fast and DVDs are really easy to store.
 
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