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Did you know?

• That page-counts represent the amount of content needed to review and without that information, your document review projects will be skewed?

• That by reading through all of these “Did You Knows” qualifies you as an eDiscovery ninja?

• That robocopy will preserve file level dates/times when copying the files to another location, but if the source media is not write-blocked, all of the last accessed dates will be altered?

• That Bloomberg email systems keeps attachments disconnected from the actual email and in a compressed .tar.gz file?

• That Guidance EnCase images can be opened and mounted by other forensic software’s?

• That Microsoft Exchange databases (.EDB files) can have thousands of mailboxes in it?

• That collecting images from virtual machines can be much faster and easier than collecting an image from a non-virtual machine with the use of virtual machines snapshot features?

• That many of the off-the-shelf eDiscovery programs can not detect the encoding of documents and thus can not properly handle foreign language character sets?

• That search terms generally miss over 50% of would-be relevant content according to TREC?

• That a 100MB text file will print over 100,000 pages or more if printed?

• That it would take a team of 1,000 attorneys 100 years to review a petabyte of information?

• That transferring sensitive data via a device (like a hard drive) in a cardboard box (like a bankers box) is highly susceptible to promoting disk failure?

• That copying 5GB of tiny files is much slower than copying 1 large 5GB file?

• That you can easily reduce the amount of information to review by doing a domain name analysis on your data (e.g. remove all @amazon.com )?

• That copying evidence to DVD or CD without first zipping up the evidence will alter the file-level dates/times of the copied files?