It might come in

The rule is to think about where you'd expect to find it. Then put it there.

My system is a bit like Amazon S3 - which I use for files.

S3 - in the house.

S3 Glacier - in my big shed.

Deep Archive - the storage unit ten miles away.

Things migrate out, or get deleted/thrown away at all stages - but mainly from the storage unit.

I share a workspace with someone who puts things wherever they can fit, then puts other unrelated stuff, in front of or on top of the original items. Drives me nuts.

I had a colleague like that once, sharing an office. He had two piles of papers, one either side of the workstation, plus two more on those pullout shelves just above each drawer stack either side of his chair. The trouble with people like that, as was the case here, is that they can nonetheless put their finger on any document in any stack at any time as requested to him by anyone. With a short and constant retrieval time.

Any attempt to complain about this was met with "What's the problem?"

We had a complete set of DEC VAX/VMS documentation occupying a large shelf unit in the iffice too. And, en plus, he kept the corresponding sets of docs for the two previous versions of VMS at home, in his garage. Drove his wife nuts.

I wish. He has been known to ask ME to find stuff he has stashed where it was convenient at the time.

I found an “offer” of a garden tree for firewood 40 miles away resistable.

Tim

The famed "orange wall" :-)

Orange, blue, grey - we had 'em all.

Like Sainsburys mince meat :-)

I have searched high and low for something that I knew that I had kept, then ended up buying a replacement and then finding what I was looking for some time later (in a place that was so obvious I could not see it).

Especially if the lady was actually a lady-boy :-)

And do NOT answer the phone or the doorbell while in the process of 'filing' said object, because it is sure to end up somewhere obscure and lost for a long time (while you are distracted)

They were of course easily downloadable in PDF format on the HP website for quite a few years.

Turned Grey in later years. I was with Cable & Wireless for years and a new 'secretary/PA' arrived at one point and decided that they were too 'unsightly', so the whole lot went in a skip. Must have been about half a tonne or more of very expensive documentation.

Yup. I have them all for 7.3.

That looks horrible. Better to use an opaque package with an appetising picture on the front.

Not in 1986. We had the VMS source on microfiche, mind you.

like a wife ????

I've got a "grey wall", and large parts of an "orange wall" in boxes in the loft.