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I don't get it - you're saying that losing information when somebody leaves because they kept it their local drive is somehow better then temporarily losing acc

• grogenaut 4y ago
  In many cases yes actually. Not sure if you've had the sad experience of your parents passing yet, but it's real work to clean up. Drawers full of documents, including a receipt for Gum next to one for the upgrades on the house (one is tax deductable when you sell their house one is garbage). Let alone the really embarrassing stuff you find in say your parents night stand or that photo album. Now multiply that by hundreds of employees over years, add in 50 revisions and forks of documents, legal liability, etc. Yes it's a giant pile that just gets worse. It's all tradeoffs and a problem you hit when you get older and bigger.