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The workflow emphasizes caution: always request an inventory before allowing changes, keep batch sizes small, provide explicit naming conventions, and maintain backups. Privacy considerations are also flagged, since some folders may contain sensitive material you wouldn't want inspected. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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