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Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

Personal files on work computer?

As long as it's not porn of political I don't see a problem with it.

But as a support tech I have had to deal with someone who had filled his hard drive up with personal photos and videos.
Imagine having to fix a laptop that has 420GB of personal photos/videos and it wont boot normally!

And of course the idiot didn't back them up so I had to copy the photos before rebuilding the laptop to fix the problem.

That may sound easy but I had to boot it into "safe mode with networking" and then copy them over the local network.
It took more than 20 hours to do that! (The idiot was a VIP and his hard drive was encrypted so there was no other option)

I used to work for a smallish company that had technicians that traveled to oil rigs, drill ships, etc... in the Gulf of Mexico, Africa, etc... I was talking to one of the IT guys that did desktop support once. He told me that a lot of those techs and some other guys in the business offices that should know better, had porn, including home made (wives, girlfriends, whatever) on their laptops. He'd apparently seen some stuff that you just can't unsee.