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What Does Mommy Save Mean?

“Mommy save” is a term for a user practice of indiscriminately saving a large number of files in one default folder, rather than neatly separating them into subsequent folders for archiving and storage. Example: “She didn’t create individual folders for each client project, she just mommy saved every single document into the documents folder that Windows had already set up.”

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Techopedia Explains Mommy Save

Part of the origin of the term “mommy save” is based on a discriminatory stereotype about users in a middle-aged female demographic. That suggests that relatively new users, such as moms, are more likely to save files and folders in less sophisticated ways. However, the concept of the term could also apply to other stereotypes about moms, such as the mom who likes to save every single bit of information about her child in a scrapbook. Here, “mommy saving” to a computer could be the equivalent of keeping a detailed scrapbook or other physical source of documentation.

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Margaret Rouse
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Margaret is an award-winning writer and educator known for her ability to explain complex technical topics to a non-technical business audience. Over the past twenty years, her IT definitions have been published by Que in an encyclopedia of technology terms and cited in articles in the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine, and Discovery Magazine. She joined Techopedia in 2011. Margaret’s idea of ​​a fun day is to help IT and business professionals to learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages.