Poll: In general, for how long do you keep project-related files? Autor da sequência: ProZ.com Staff
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| | | | Alex Lichanow
Alemanha
Local time: 14:53
Inglês para Alemão
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As long as there are no other stipulations to delete files earlier or keep them longer, I delete everything apart from invoices after a year.
| | | | WolfgangS
França
Local time: 14:53
Inglês para Alemão
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| I never delete anything | Aug 1, 2024 |
ProZ.com Staff wrote:
This forum topic is for the discussion of the poll question "In general, for how long do you keep project-related files?". View the poll results »
As per subject, however a lot of stuff gets lost when changing computer, in a HD crash etc.
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I keep everything. When I moved back to my home town in 2015 I found on my basement a lot of diskettes (do you remember those?)
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| Past documents always revisited -Record keeping at its best! | Aug 1, 2024 |
I keep pretty much anything and everything unless it is requested otherwise by the client. I do find value in revisiting past documents as they serve as a source of inspiration, information, or a way to track progress. I have a specific filing system for this
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Sovais Language Solutions wrote:
I keep pretty much anything and everything unless it is requested otherwise by the client. I do find value in revisiting past documents as they serve as a source of inspiration, information, or a way to track progress. I have a specific filing system for this
Care to share? Thanks.
| | | | Siobhán Fulton
Estados Unidos da América
Local time: 08:53
Alemão para Inglês
| In perpetuity | Aug 1, 2024 |
Sometime in the previous century I had a direct client that made me sign an agreement to delete all files 90 days after the end of a project. Although I should have known better, I waited 6 months then deleted the files. Shortly after that I got a phone call from a secretary at the client's firm asking for copies of the project files. She excoriated me for the deletion, the agreement notwithstanding. Since then I have retained all files, most of which have been archived on CDs. I still have purc... See more Sometime in the previous century I had a direct client that made me sign an agreement to delete all files 90 days after the end of a project. Although I should have known better, I waited 6 months then deleted the files. Shortly after that I got a phone call from a secretary at the client's firm asking for copies of the project files. She excoriated me for the deletion, the agreement notwithstanding. Since then I have retained all files, most of which have been archived on CDs. I still have purchase orders and invoices going back to the 1990s, as well as project-specific databases (TM/term bases), the latter having proved useful when old projects have come back to life or undertaken by a different client years after the initial endeavor. ▲ Collapse
| | | | WolfgangS
França
Local time: 14:53
Inglês para Alemão
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| I remember those | Aug 2, 2024 |
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:
I keep everything. When I moved back to my home town in 2015 I found on my basement a lot of diskettes (do you remember those?)
But failing the possibility to read them, I had to trash them all. No regrets ...
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| Genrally after 10 years | Aug 2, 2024 |
the same as I get rid of my tax documents. If I am still working for the client then I do tend to just leave all files there, otherwise files from customers I no longer work with just collect dust.
| | | | Daryo
Local time: 13:53
Sérvio para Inglês
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Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida wrote:
I keep everything. When I moved back to my home town in 2015 I found on my basement a lot of diskettes (do you remember those?)
The last incarnation of floppy disks - the 3½-inch type? I still have few boxes of them laying around. And an external drive that can read them.
The first computer I used when employed was taking 5¼-inch floppy disks.
The first floppy disk I ever saw was the 8-inch model, when interpreting for a company buying new IT equipment. THAT was "state of the art" at that time.
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