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What gets your time next year?

Why calibrating your life on a regular basis makes all the difference in an opt-out world

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Katie Burkhart
Dec 18, 2023
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The word OUT glorified in a black frame on a stone structure
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Grab the mouse. Click on the Desktop folder. Nothing. 

Where did my files go?

Scroll back to Microsoft Word. Click Save As. Click More Options. Inspect the folder path. 

Where the hell is that?

Sigh.

Over to Google. Search for the folder path. Find a thread explaining that the files are being saved to One Drive. The thread provides instructions on setting it up. 

But I don’t want One Drive. 

Sigh.

Back to Microsoft Word. Open each file through the Recent tab. Resave each file to the actual desktop. Delete the files in the phantom One Drive folder. Make a note to check the phantom folder(s) annually to protect my data.

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