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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/egosumumbravir on 2024-03-20 00:35:19.

Have read a few threads of what users are planning to do with their horde; but flipping it on the head - what do you do with someone else’s horde?

A close friend died. It was over a year ago and kind of sudden. I ended up with the horde, searching it for EoL relevant documentation, it was rather an ungood time digging out the personal stuff to return to the family.

That’s all well done and dusted and I’ve been warehousing the detritus since. It’s not an especially big horde, running a bit under 20TB but they never got around to sorting and cataloguing before the Reaper came knocking. It’s a mess and I’m struggling to deal with it.

Every once in a while I clearthink that there’s terabytes of game libraries from various sources locked away behind 2FA authentication methods that don’t exist any more - the family killed phone/email plans asap as they cost money. I hate to think how many dollars of Steam/Epic are now just gone but it still feels bad to hover the finger over the delete key.

Then there’s the media. A properly vast music library and a fairly extensive video one. It’s pretty much the last 20 years of their life right there.

What would you do?

Be a sentimental old fool and keep this?

Get rational and hit the delete key?

Devote some amount of time sorting through the chaff, looking for the occasional bit of wheat?