Why would physical copies of classified documents need to be retained when high speed scanners can create digital copies that are much easier to hide?

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Why would physical copies of classified documents need to be retained when high speed scanners can create digital copies that are much easier to hide?

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I think what we are getting at was the documents Trump had. I wondered that same thing but in reverse. Why did he have physical documents? He could have scanned them all to a thumb drive no one would have ever found. He could have handed them all back to the national archives with a Oops these must have gotten mixed up with my stuff. And we would have never known. Not one person around him thought of this?? Or they did and the have much much more on a drive some where.