It’s time to wipe and reinstall my Windows box, since the accumulated crud on it is apparently interfering with games, so I’m in the middle of archiving all of the files on it onto the Linux box, since it still has plenty of space.
While setting it all up though, I noticed that one of the directories being copied contained a set of backup files I’d made earlier. And the destination directory also has a couple other archive files from previous incarnations of the system. And some of those archives probably contain other backups within them, leading to backups-within-backups-within-backups…
I could just delete them all, since if I haven’t touched them recently they probably don’t contain anything all that important, but my inner packrat tends to balk at such impulses. I’m always afraid of things like wanting to return to some game that I was mostly finished but whoops, I deleted all the save files inside an old backup… At some point I’m going to have to just expand them all out and merge them into one consolidated set of files, and then pick out the pieces I actually want to keep…