This paper examines the non-connective behaviour of the particle -qe on Linear B administrative documents. In Mycenaean -qe usually performs a connective function as coordinating particle. However, in a number of instances on Pylos documents its behaviour cannot be interpreted as connective. By examining the occurrences of the particle in those contexts where it is understood to perform a non-connecting function and by assessing the interpretations so far advanced to account for such idiosyncratic behaviour, this paper offers an alternative explanation of this peculiar usage of the particle -qe, viewed against the administrative backdrop of information management (recording and retrieval) and storage.