Quote: median file age of 48 days, excluding the vast majority of short-lived files

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The median file age is 48 days … Studies of short-term trace data [refs] have shown … we are unlikely to observe … 44% of the files [are created and never used. Of those used, the median lifetime of use is 12 days] … [Lifetimes vary dramatically by job classification. 67% of technical support files are never used,] … [p. 66] [while] administration files have very long lifetimes, …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: 44% of files never used; of those used, median lifetime is 12 days of use; varies by job, e.g., tech support vs. admin

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