Clearly hoarding is something looked at as an anomaly since there are entire shows about it. But what about being a digital hoarder?  This week I’ve spent a large number of hours taming one client’s email.  It went back as far as 2004.  His Inbox alone was 28,322 emails.  That didn’t include subfolders, sent items, deleted items (that was 3,270 alone!) and drafts.  His feeling was if he kept it, he would always have it if he needed it. I beg to differ. Outlook as a piece of software was never designed to handle that kind of volume. In fact, it was really only made to handle about 2GB worth of email.  And for the average person, that’s all they can handle as well. We all get email every day that we will never need again – and probably didn’t need today.  So rather than […] Continue reading