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so the ibook g3 i bought on ebay is mostly word documents
judging by the file names (i have chosen not to open any of them) it was owned by either a librarian, or a book editor, or a review writer. there are things like book of the year reviews from 2003 to 2006, interview transcripts, letters and personal documents. the person i bought it from was clearly aware of the documents in it as "opening a word document" is all the testing they did before selling
i have confirmed this laptop belonged to a late British journalist who passed in 2005 and later used by his author widow who collaborated with him on multiple books
it's weird having the laptop of a person who has a Wikipedia page
@mavica_again I think it's worth preserving them
i'm torn between the data protection burn the whole thing down and format the drive or data archival preserve the files that are sufficiently anonymous