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Lever arch files: Stopping them from 'deforming' at open end

Corse anyone with even half a clue would scan them and bin the paperwork.

Reply to
Hankat
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In message , Hankat writes

Possibly anyone who does not need to keep original paperwork for a minimum of six years, for production to HMRC.

Reply to
Graeme

Your files sound like they take up ten times the volume of the papers within. How about getting a filing cabinet? I have a 2-drawer one in wood effect in the bedroom. Papers drop into the labelled hangers which squeeze or expand according to the contents.

Reply to
Dave W

Many, many organisation scan their documents and archive them. In fact when it comes to thermally printed receipts its a necessity unless you think they will last 6 years or more. 10 years if VAT MOSS is involved.

Reply to
Fredxxx

That is what I have. Plus a few box files which stand up by themselves.

Reply to
Fredxxx

What difficult about making dividers from cereal boxes etc if you don't want to buy them?

Reply to
Robin

One of the best unexpected uses of smartphones with cameras, IMHO.

Reply to
Dan S. MacAbre

I don't like dividers. Hence individual files.

MM

Reply to
MM

I used to have such a filing cabinet, also wood effect. Four drawers. Didn't like it. Pulling the drawers out was such a pain compared to just reaching for a lever arch file. And you couldn't move the bloody thing, it was so heavy. I gave it away eventually.

MM

Reply to
MM

Oh, I have box files as well! The loft is full of them. They are more for *long-term* storage. My papers go back to 1970, including the German stuff.

MM

Reply to
MM

That's the most daft idea I've ever heard! These files are often multi-page documents or postcard size. It varies. It would take

*years* to scan them all.

And then what? You'd never find them again! Not without a database, that is.

MM

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MM

And then you lose the phone...

Oops!

I'm the kind of person who still walks to the bank every month to pay my credit card statement at the counter. I hate technology! Having worked in the computer industry since 1978 I know just how crap it can be. Now everyone is trying to persuade me to use my cards contactless, and I just tell them politely to naff off. Never gonna happen! Cash is king!

MM

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MM

No, I mean you then transfer them to your computer, and put them 'in the cloud' if necessary. I wouldn't leave photographs in a phone for a long time.

I like not having to work out how to spend a mountain of loose change any more.

Reply to
Dan S. MacAbre

Your 'database' is sensibly-chosen directory names :-)

Reply to
Dan S. MacAbre

So get a chipboard two drawer one and put castors on it like mine.

Reply to
Dave W

When I retired, I decided to scan a load of stuff, having been bitten a couple of times before when I discarded manual etc. that I subsequently needed.

I have a sheet feed scanner (50 sheets at a time, duplex) that does 25 sheets/minute. Loose and hole punched papers were quick; manuals I sliced the spine off (made a small jig) and then scanned.

I have a few oddments to do but have scanned over 60,000 pages without expending vast amounts of time on it.

Reply to
Bob Eager

Not a problem, the pics are auto archived to dropbox etc and you just get a new one and they are all available on the new one.

Your house burns to the ground, you're f***ed.

And yet you use this one instead of writing letters with a quill pen.

That's why you got the bums rush.

Still got the horse and buggy for when its too far to walk ?

I pay for everything using ApplePay now, leaves contactless cards for dead and no chance of losing any money if you lose the phone or have it stolen.

And no use to anyone so they don't get stolen now. And when the most stupid steals it anyway, you have the full video footage of the thief trying to use it and his geolocation and so its off to the slammer for him.

Reply to
Hankat

Why? 10 years I can understand. What do you keep that is 40 years old to take all this room?

Reply to
Fredxxx

I have never used a cloud to store my data on. Bit too will-o'-the-wisp for my liking. I use only Western Digital hard drives. I sometimes watch clouds in the summer, to see if I can recognise a rabbit or elephant. Once I thought I'd recognised Bill Gates, but then I woke up. Just a nightmare, that's all.

Tesco's self-service tills are your friend for getting rid of loose change. I used to think these things were the devil's work, but now I've got quite used to them. And it means you don't have to talk to people. Who knows? Maybe in thirty years' time I'll even be using contactless cards... but I'll be dead long before then anyway.

By the way, since back from Germany I've ordered a coin dispenser for euros. Then I thought, why stop there? So I ordered one for sterling coins, too.

MM

Reply to
MM

But I don't have a smartphone anyway. Surely you must have already guessed that! What is 'dropbox'? Sounds like something secret agents would use.

True, but then I'd have lost a lot more than a few files of old papers.

You find a way for me to get that to you and I'll give it a go!

Nothing wrong with my bum since I started using Sudocrem.

Bicycle.

I never liked Apple products. Still don't.

Well, you've found the best solution for you, and I have, too, for me. It's files all the way!

MM

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MM

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