Mommy Save

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 is an award-winning technical writer and teacher known for her ability to explain complex technical subjects to a non-technical, business audience. Over the past twenty years her explanations have appeared on TechTarget websites and she's been cited as an authority in articles by the New York Times, Time Magazine, USA Today, ZDNet, PC Magazine and Discovery Magazine.Margaret's idea of a fun day is helping IT and business professionals learn to speak each other’s highly specialized languages. If you have a suggestion for a new definition or how to improve a technical explanation, please email Margaret or contact her…