That a thorough data map can help you to implement your data retention policy, and can equip you for your “meet and confer” conference?
That removing near duplicate documents without first reviewing them could risk missing important information?
That the Microsoft Windows operating system has a 254 character limit on the length of a filepath and name, but Linux operating systems do not?
That many early case assessment tools (ECA) will miss crucial embedded objects, hidden metadata, and OCR text?
That when requesting another party’s metadata, timing is everything?
That you can use a mapped drive letter (e.g. X:\) to gain access to a Windows file that has accidentally gone over the 256 character limit?
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 all Microsoft Office document formats can contain embedded files and that those files too can contain embedded files?
That copying 5GB of tiny files is much slower than copying 1 large 5GB file?
That you could probably save your clients hundreds of thousands of dollars in eDiscovery costs by hosting the documents within your own firm?
That Microsoft Exchange databases (.EDB files) can have thousands of mailboxes in it?
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 PDF files have multiple levels of security, where you can open a PDF, but might not be able to print it?
That by reading through all of these “Did You Knows” qualifies you as an eDiscovery ninja?
That AutoCad documents should be viewed in native, not TIFF, format because of their 3-dimensional layouts?
