But investigators in Doylestown and Northampton Township struggled with their efforts because the archdiocese said it no longer had the original computer, and no one had made copies of what had been on the computer's hard drive when it was first seized — something that Weintraub said police would have done if they had been contacted in the first place. What remained had passed through so many hands over the years that the evidence had chain-of-custody problems. Gavin said the church was never told to retain the original computer.