What you keep has a lot to with what you do. Will there ever be a liability isssue? For you or the client? Then there is the issue of repeat business. In my case (developing electronic circuits) there is always the possiblity of reuse. Since I don't do digital circuits, change is not all that rapid, so I can reuse part of a circuit in another project. Saves time for a client and I look good. I, too, hate all that filing. My method has been to start a file at project start, clean it out of junk after the end of the project. I also save all computer generated files on individual Zip drives, which I chuck into the file. That has been to good for some time now. I think I'll have to change to a USB stick / client soon. On the IRS side, I believe the rule is three years, but that's not three calendar years, it is more because of the way the IRS counts years. I hear five is wise. ----- Harmed trees...In New Brunswick, Canada there is a power plant that burns "forest fibre." There that is 100% trees. That plant is on the grid, the same grid we are on. Jim U. jim at nationalwireless.com Original Message: ----------------- From: DAVID F. FARKAS david at farkas.com Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:10:32 -0500 To: hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net Subject: [Hidden-tech] To keep records or not to keep records... ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. ** If you did, we all thank you. -------------------------------------------------------------------- myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft® Windows® and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting