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Most shared drives have a few familiar problem areas. There is the project folder that was copied from last year’s project folder. The finance folder with exported reports saved every month. The HR folder with policy drafts, signed PDFs, multiple Word document versions, and scanned copies. The department archive that everyone is afraid to touch. Somewhere in there, the same file may exist five, ten, or even fifty times.

Most organizations know their file shares are messy. The problem is nobody knows exactly how messy until a migration project starts.