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This reminds me of the box of love letters that my sister found hidden behind the rafters in the garage. It was from the 1920s. She did some searching and was able to find out whose they were. She found an old widow - the husband had just passed away the previous year. The ailing woman thought those letters were lost forever. She was touched that someone would return them to her.
Granted, your story is of a recent history rather than an old one. But it's the same idea. What if there is something on that hard drive that is precious, that they have lost? Sure, it may have been backed up at the time, but maybe that data was lost or corrupted in a more recent upgrade.
Without the consent of the person who wrote them, it's pretty messed up to share such things. Assuming that you forgot in the first place, you've probably read enough files on the hard drive to figure out whose it was. The right thing to do would be to return the files to the person who lost them. Keeping them to yourself is selfish. Posting them without consent is reprehensible.
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