Photocopies ARE the inventory. You hand the photocopies to the resident upon leaving. The hard disk of the copier proves what was copied. And the defendant knows exactly what was taken. It is the best accounting one could possibly have.
That doesnt mean that that’s the only way to conduct an inventory. Second, you have no idea how many documents there were, how they were bound, not whether there was a photocopier on site that could be used.
Why build up all this silly speculation when the bottom line is this: unless they seized proof positive that Trump gave the nuclear codes to the Russians or the Chinese, or something of equal import, this search was inexcusable and politically motivated? The Obama administration engaged in similar shenanigans, as did Clinton, without any similar consequences whatsoever. So if the basis for the search was that Trump failed to turn over some cocktail napkins on which the NK dictator had written, then it’s clear that the whole thing was politically motivated, even if the search was a textbook example of a proper search.
