Digging through a Pile of Documents

Back in 2014, the hard drive on my laptop crashed.

Luckily I had friends who knew some people and files were recovered from the hard drive - mostly.  I received a USB thumb drive with all the files recovered in a single pile, the file names separated from the file contents.  So I had a bunch of unopenable files that were just the file names and a huge pile for files that had serial numbers with file extensions (.rtf, .pdf, .doc, etc.).  I could open the numbered files (mostly - some were damaged and could not be opened) and then re-save them with names and as they were mostly all my files I knew what they were.

The downside was that I kept older versions of the same file in case I messed something up and needed to revert to an older version.  These were now mixed all together in no discernable order.

Every couple of years, I spend a several hours opening files, working out what they are and maybe which version before saving them in a folder labeled "Identified".  When I started I had close to 10,000 files to sort through and now I'm down below 4000 files.  I made a push this weekend to get through the last 600+ .rtf files in that pile.  Most of them are single pages from the sci-fi novel I wrote but some were game notes from way back in the day.  One was my original writeup of the Siege of Freegate!

In the near future (possibly this weekend) I will use that to relace/correct the blog entry I made on it October 30th.  I'll point out when it happens so folks can go back and read the official version, not the stop-gap version.

In the meantime, I've started typing up the session notes for the Sunken Sea Campaign, starting with Session 22, the last session before my surgery.  I've completed the write-up for Session 23 and will likely type up Session 24 this weekend.  I'm torn between posting the rest of the Tim's Outlanders material (three or four complete arcs) or switch back over to the active campaign once I've finished posting the session notes for The Mansion of Illusion (one more session to go).

Anyone have any opinions?