Today I am wading through an endless stack of zip disks at work, mostly filled with people’s endless backups (‘cuz you know, saving OVER the PREVIOUS backup would be WRONG!) that are in many cases not even dated (but all from 2001 or earlier). In a surprising number of cases, there are no files whatsoever backed up on the zip disks. Instead, there are between 1 and 10 aliases or shortcuts to files that once existed on some computer or other. This is one of the most amusing silly computer mistakes I’ve seen in a while.

Share your tales of woe and whimsy! And if YOU are the perpetrator, don’t feel bad, we all do these things from time to time.