It won't last forever, at least. The worst part of essays for me was forgetting which flash drive I'd backed them up to and then wind up with several copies different levels of complete. You'd think I'd have learned to label things. Now I just resave the same document to all the flash drives each time.
I think mentally, I can do that. Especially at work. In the meantime, I just need to find a way of politely doing just that without them proving it's what I meant.