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Why will you "need" to go through it at all? Unless you were looking for something specifically important, like you knew there must be a will in there somewhere but had no idea where, why can't you just pitch the lot of it?

I have a single page document with the information I think somebody would need from my electronic files if I died. It's printed and stored in my fire safe. My next of kin has a copy of the key.

I don't really expect they'll do, nor care to do, anything with my digital files.



If I don’t go through it I’ll end up storing it forever “just in case”. And the long that goes on, the bigger the risk of things not working.

It could be that the longer it goes on the less relevant it becomes, but it will still hang over my head.


"Just in case" what, though? What problem are you thinking you might have that would only be solvable by digging through a bunch of old documents?

It's hard for me to imagine a problem that could only be solved in that way, or in fact that could be solved that way at all.




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