Everything with the exception of a couple of items are ready. I will get you an actual number before I send it over. We can send it over tomorrow. There will be ReadMe files included so it will be easy to see where the items came from. I am a little worried about how the e-mail will present. While looking through on a spot check, the attachments are not connected to the e-mails in the forensic tool. I believe it is a function of the e-mail client they were using to begin with. I know that the attachments are a concern of yours. We may have to massage things a bit to get it right. Now that we are working every day, and everything has been processed, it shouldn’t be too big a deal. So far the export is about 350 GB. It copies slowly because it is a ton of pretty small files. You are getting the whole ball of wax, here, Macs, Windows boxes, loose media, etc. There will be a few iPhone and iPad reports, but unsure if I can get you those tomorrow as they very often take a LONG time to copy. Again, lots of small files. If not tomorrow, the next day.¶
Are you around tomorrow? Reach out to me when you get the production so we can correct any problems we might encounter. Thanks.¶
I understand that some number of the devices are ready to come to us as early as today or tomorrow. Could you please let us know the following information, so we can figure out who the hard drive should go to in the first instance:¶
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- How many total devices are coming to us in this initial production?
o What are those devices – i.e., type of device and which ones, from the spreadsheets you’ve sent?¶
- What’s the total volume of data coming in this round of production?
Once we know that, I can let the agents know where the drive needs to go in the first instance.¶
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Checking in for the estimate of when we can expect to get all the USVI materials?¶
thanks,¶
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Okay thanks – good luck with the cardiologist! And if you can let us know tomorrow that would be great. Thanks again.¶
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When I’m in the office tomorrow, I will be better able to estimate. I’m at my cardiologist right now.¶
Great, thanks. Is there even a rough estimate of when we will get the USVI materials? Or an estimate of when you’ll be able to see how many items to export, so we’ll have a better sense of when we’ll get those?¶
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Yep¶
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You are getting both NY and USVI. The biggest stumbling block are the newer Mac items that are in APFS (there are a bunch from the Island,) so it is difficult to estimate how long those will take until I see how many items I have to export.¶
And on my other question – does this mean you’re giving us a new, complete copy of everything from both NY and USVI?¶
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I am in the process of exporting the materials (documents, spreadsheets, emails, etc) for your review as per my discussions with . Most of the NY stuff is done, just Mac items left. This might take a few days as 1 item in particular has over 500,000 emails. We will be able to provide discovery once Defense Council has provided drives for us to copy items over to. This goes quicker as there is no processing involved. I’ll let you know when everything is complete.¶
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Following up on this, I understand from that she was able to provide you with a 12 TB drive last week – could you please let us know when we will be able to get the materials? I expect a judge will ask us about discovery as early as this week.¶
Also, the related critical question that I don’t think we have clarity on is whether you’re giving us a copy of everything that was collected (including reproducing the materials that you previously gave us, but which are not searchable), or have you and figured out a way to categorize the prior productions so they’re useful for us? We would strongly prefer to just get everything at once in a usable format, but please let us know if you expect to produce materials differently than that.¶
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We are going every other day now, ramping up to 75% week after next. I need drives to put things on like and I discussed earlier. Once I have those drives, it will take me a couple days to copy stuff. LMK when I can expect the drives. Thanks.¶
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Will do.¶
Understood, and thanks for letting us know. Let’s keep in touch both on timing and also on whether there’s a way to identify and categorize what’s already been produced, or if we’ll need to just get all the raw data at this stage and go from there.¶
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Unfortunately, recent events and our staffing levels have conspired to put a kink in just about everything. If we can’t make heads or tails of the stuff I’ve already produced, we’ll do it again. They have told us that our staffing levels will be steadily increasing over the next few weeks, but I’m going to have to push back my estimate by a week or 2. Sorry about that. My next day in the office is Thursday, so I’ll be able to see if I can easily identify what I already gave you and marry it to a reliable identifier.¶
Thanks for this update – we’ll take a look and circle back if any questions.¶
Separately, to follow up on a question from the May 15 email below, the list has just five devices as still pending to be transferred to us, and I think it’s right that the plan is to reproduce all the materials so that we can get them in searchable format, but just wanted to confirm? Currently, we aren’t able to match any of the prior productions to specific devices – so if we’re able to match them up by Bates number now, that might work, but otherwise I think it makes sense for us to get everything. But let us know if any issue with that.¶
And related to that question, are we still on track to get the full range of data in the next week or so? I don’t think we’ve gotten any updates on that status in the past few weeks, and we’re eager to be able to start reviewing.¶
thanks again,¶
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