A New Computer for the Boss

So the boss gets a new computer today...

WAIT!

Let's start this story from the beginning:

Back in 2006 the boss's email mailbox fills up. He's a bit of an email hoarder so I offer to create an archive PST file on a remote server to hold his 18,000 previously sent emails that are eating up so much space. I show him how to move his messages over to the archive and also show him that he can still get to them if he needs to as long as he is on the network. Does he use it? No.

Week after week I harp on him to archive some emails, but does he use it? No.
A few months ago he calls me all excited that he's using the archive now and moving a whole mess of messages off the server freeing up vast amounts of space. There was much rejoicing.

Now back to the present. So the boss gets a new computer today and asks about his archive on the network. I tell him where it is and when he opens it, there's nothing in it. After about ten minutes of back and forth, I track down the archive to his My Documents folder. "How can they be in both places?" he asks. I'm not even going to answer that one. In order to go on with the rest of my day I have to admit to him that I setup his archive incorrectly. I moved the messages from the local archive to the remote archive and everything is happy.

Let's analyze how this error happened. I have two theories. You decide which one makes the most sense.

Theory 1: I connected to a remote server, created a file folder, changed the security settings so the file folder can only be accessed by the boss and then built an archive PST file in previously mentioned folder. A Ninja Strike Team™ then connected to his computer in the dead of night and built an archive PST file on his My Documents folder and moved all of his emails to that archive.

or

Theory 2: I connected to a remote server, created a file folder, changed the security settings so the file folder can only be accessed by the boss and then built an archive PST file in previously mentioned folder. After some time, the boss removed the link to the archive file on the remote server. A few months later, ready to archive a bunch of email, the boss cannot locate the link, but clicks on the "Mailbox Cleanup" option in Outlook which creates a new archive PST in his My Documents folder. Armed with the new link, he proceeded to move his emails over.



I think the aliens did it.