Digital File Rescue
Clean up confusing filenames, scattered folders, duplicate candidates, and disorganized digital material.
From hard-to-find files and messy piles to an organized digital archive.
Raw File Rescue helps individuals and small businesses make sense of messy digital files, documents, browser bookmarks, AI chats, data, and paper backlogs—so you can find what you need and move forward.
Find What You Need
Logical folders, clearer names, and searchable information.
Save Time
Spend less time searching through scattered files.
Review Before Delete
Nothing is intentionally deleted without your review.
Built Around the Problem
The solution depends on what your backlog actually needs.
How Raw File Rescue Helps
Start with the mess. Then build the right solution for it.
Business File Cleanup
Create practical folder structures, naming conventions, and organized records for small-business files.
Chat-to-Document
Turn long AI chats and scattered conversations into usable, structured documents, summaries, and action items.
Data Extraction
Pull useful information from documents and files into cleaner tables, inventories, summaries, or structured records.
Paper-to-Digital
On-site organization and digitization for manageable paper backlogs without taking your originals off site.
Mixed Backlog Rescue
Combine paper, digital files, images, spreadsheets, and other materials into one workable organization plan.
Bookmark & Saved-Link Cleanup
Organize browser bookmarks into clear folders, rename confusing entries, and identify duplicate, outdated, or potentially broken links for your review.
Remote projects use an exported bookmark file—no browser passwords or account access required. Automated results are review candidates, not automatic deletion decisions.
Before → After
The goal isn't complicated software. It's knowing where things are and what they're called.
Real Rescue Examples
Examples show the kinds of transformations Raw File Rescue can perform. Every project is scoped around the customer's actual material.
Pepper Riot Business Rescue
A sample business backlog showing how downloads, Drive material, sales orders, and receipts can be brought into a consistent project archive.
Personal File Rescue
Downloads, Drive folders, and mixed paper-and-digital material reorganized into usable systems.
Chat and Document Transformation
Long conversations can become concise extracts, structured documents, and project-ready records.
DIY FILE RESCUE
Got a bunch of “Untitled” files?
Search your Drive for “Untitled.” Open each file, decide whether it's worth keeping, and rename it based on what it actually contains. It's a simple cleanup that can make important files much easier to find.
Don't want to spend an afternoon doing that?
That's where Raw File Rescue comes in. We review, rename, and organize hard-to-find files using a consistent naming system—while you spend your time on something else.
Get Help With My FilesWant to tackle it yourself? See these cloud-cleanup how-to guides from the Fashion Institute of Technology.
A few more ways to clean up your files
Rename hard-to-find files
Stop living with names like Untitled, IMG_4832, or Final_Final_2. Give files names that tell you what they contain.
Find possible duplicates
Look for copies, numbered files, and suspiciously similar versions that may be taking up space or causing confusion.
Compare before deleting
Check the file name, size, date, and contents before removing anything. Raw File Rescue follows the same principle: Review Before Delete.
Stop creating endless versions
When your platform supports it, use version history instead of creating Draft1, Draft2, Final, and Final2.
Use shortcuts instead of extra copies
If one file belongs in two places, a shortcut can be better than maintaining copies that may drift apart.
You can do all of this yourself.
Or you can hand us the backlog.
Know what needs fixing but don't want to spend hours doing it? Raw File Rescue can handle the cleanup for you.
Get Help With My FilesPilot Rate
$30 / hour
Billable project work during the measured pilot period. Time is billed in 15-minute increments.
Clear Scope Before Work Begins
Every rescue is different. Before billable work begins, we'll define what is being worked on, the proposed approach, and the estimated time or cost.
- Baseline pilot labor rate: $30/hour
- Time billed in 15-minute increments
- Discounted pilot rates may be available for qualifying history, museum, archival, and cultural-heritage projects
- No hidden deletion decisions
- One basic correction round included
- Travel and on-site requirements scoped separately
How It Works
1
Tell Me the Problem
Show me what's messy, difficult to find, or taking too much time.
2
Review the Plan
I'll review the material, ask questions, and define a practical scope.
3
Work Gets Done
Files, documents, data, bookmarks, or paper are organized according to the agreed plan.
4
Receive the Result
You receive the organized output and know where everything belongs.
✓Review Before Delete
Potential deletions are reviewed before permanent removal.
77-Day Temporary Retention
Temporary working copies are ordinarily retained for seven days after final delivery is made available.
⌁No Off-Site Paper Custody
Paper-to-digital pilot work is performed on site. Originals stay with you.
Clear Policies Before Work Begins
The project scope, authorization, payment expectations, and data-handling approach are documented before customer-specific production begins.
Cancellation & Refund Policy
Before production begins: 90% of service fees paid will be refunded. Ten percent is retained for completed intake, setup, and administrative work.
After production begins: completed and earned work is nonrefundable. Any unearned prepaid service-fee balance will be refunded.
Customer-authorized, nonrefundable third-party expenses are excluded from refunds. Minimum-charge services become nonrefundable once production begins.
“Production begins” means customer-specific work performed after intake and acceptance of the scope or quote.
Privacy & Data Handling
Raw File Rescue collects only the information reasonably needed to evaluate and complete the agreed project. Customer material is not sold or used for unrelated purposes.
Temporary working copies are ordinarily deleted seven days after the final deliverable is successfully sent or made available through the agreed delivery method.
External AI processing is optional and requires express customer authorization. Browser-cleanup customers provide an exported bookmark file; browser passwords and account access are not requested.
Potential deletion decisions remain subject to Review Before Delete.
Scope, Authorization & Corrections
Before billable work begins, the customer receives a defined scope, proposed approach, and estimated time or cost. Material changes require approval before additional work proceeds.
One basic correction round is included for errors or reasonable adjustments within the agreed scope. New requests or expanded scope may require a revised estimate.
Project Documentation
Accepted projects use written intake, scope, authorization, review, delivery, and payment documentation appropriate to the work.
Special authorization is required when a project involves external AI processing, remote-access tools, duplicate/version decisions, or another material risk identified during review.
Raw File Rescue is being developed in Austin, Texas, with a measured pilot focused on practical service, clear safeguards, and documented results.
Ready to Rescue Your Files?
Tell me what you're dealing with and we'll figure out the next step.