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I got a call from a lawyer I don’t know on Sunday evening. He reported that he’d received production of ESI from a financial institution and spent the weekend going through it. He’d found TIFF images of the pages of electronic documents, but couldn’t search them. He also found a lot of “Notepad documents.” He’d sought native production, so thought it odd that they produced so many pictures of documents and plain text files. As it’s unlikely a bank would rely on Windows Notepad as its word processor, I probed further and learned that that the production included folders of TIFF images, folders of .TXT files (those “Notepad documents”) and folders of files with odd extensions like .DAT and .OPT. My caller didn’t know what to do with these.
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