Hugo Young's electronic records from his home PC computer and Mac ibook laptop. Mainly consists of word document (.doc), but also includes a number of plain text files (.txt) in preparation to be remotely inputted to the Guardian's production system.
Initial investigations suggest that these are largely duplicate of hardcopy filing particularly of his columns for the Guardian, interviews/conversations and non-Guardian writings. However, the files also include correspondence concerning his work and books which may not be duplicate. The folders on the CD reflect the structure of the folders on Hugo Young's home computer. Most of the files were retained in the folders 'my documents' or 'columns'. Additional files were kept on the c:\drive of the computer. Duplication between the folders is anticipated. Separately the Mac ibook laptop contained documents in a folder 'my documents'.
Original file titles have been retained where possible but file titles copied in the second visit by the archivists have been reduced to around eight characters due to a technical glitch. The 'new' file names have been retained rather than attempting to second guess the original file title.
Hugo Young was not a prolific email user and no email correspondence has been retained - however, a few files have been identified which appear to be the text of emails to Hugo. It would therefore seem that his preferred method of retaining email was to copy and paste the text into a word document.
Creator: DS/UK/122