I got this new laptop and didn't really transfer anything to it in any organized way, but I have opened backup discs that may have contained those old files. I have never opened them or, as I said, opened Works previously on this computer, so I suppose it just retains the memory of having seen them on the disc.
When I try to open them, it indicates that they can't be found on the computer, as one would expect.
And those Rhetoric studies (mostly the modern stuff, the classical stuff was OK) that finally convinced me I was no intellectual. No more papers in this trailerpark!
in the professional computer world, this could most easily be explained as PFM (Pure ‘effing Magic).