Remembering old data

3/09/2008

So I caved in and picked up a new MacBook Pro. Having recently abandoned my iMac, this new laptop has become my primary workhorse. In the process of migrating data, I came across an old folder called "End of Babson Docs." Despite the descriptive label, I was curious as to what was stuffed in there...

It turns out that in my final hours of graduating college I copied/pasted everything on my desktop, bookmarks, fonts, various Photoshop Tennis files, random digital experiments, 2-3 web server root directories, and a bunch of of stray documents. The crazy thing about looking at this old data is that I actually remember the significance of most of the 1,500+ files.

The sad realization from all of this is that I may not be good with remembering names of acquaintances but I have no problem with recognizing old files and directory layouts. This is a new world.