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[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“Many files are too large to open… There are many files that are completely invisible to us,” one email read.

This sounds incredibly fishy to me. There's ways of opening files. Even if you're not technical, you can surely understand that if the file system can see a file and make a copy of a file, you can access it, even in parts.

Perhaps they're too inept to figure it out.

[–] Goretantath@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Sounds like they are trying to open .rar files or the sort in notepad.. Wouldn't put it last these old farts..

[–] Janx@piefed.social 7 points 1 month ago

If parts of the files are illegally redacted in defiance of the law passed, they didn't fucking release that file! This is that cover-up QAnon and Republicans feared would happen, occurring right in front of our faces, and they're silent. There are real victims of the Epstein Files being denied justice to protect the rich and powerful...

[–] daannii@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

They are releasing duplicates. A lot of them.

Possibly they are deleting originals and duplicating documents to put in directories so they still match inventory logs.

It's also possible they are using duplicates to make it look like they have released more than they have.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

She probably released all files she could without "endangering" Trump.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I've said it before: There is no shot that around 15TB of data is all e-mails or random pictures. It has to be video, and the average person definitely isn't going to get to see that.