Protect or purge digital files as you do important paper files. Sensitive materials such as hard drives, disks and memory cards should be shredded.
- Clean out your old email and empty deleted folders. If you need to keep old messages, move them to an archive.
- Delete or archive older files and outdated financial statements.
- Unsubscribe to newsletters, email alerts and updates you no longer read.
- Update your online photo album by deleting or backing up old photos.
- Update online relationships by reviewing friends on social networks and all contacts lists.
- Copy important data to a secure cloud site or other drive.
- Password protect backup drives. Keep in a different location off the network.
- Permanently delete all old files.
Stay tuned for more “digital” spring cleaning tips next month.
First published in our May 2017 IT Radix Resource newsletter
