For most people, housekeeping involves getting rid of clutter, running the vacuum, maybe dusting, and the like. Not so for me... my latest bout of housekeeping is of the digital variety - I've been sorting my computer files.
"Why?" you might ask... Well, to put it simply, it's because I'm a hypocrite. I, like many other technically-inclined people, often remind others to back up their computer files. Yet I haven't made a genuine backup since sometime in early 2007. Instead, I've simply copied files from one drive to another to another... so I have multiple copies of everything, but I have no idea where anything is.
But now, enough is enough. My sorting project has begun. Everything digital that I own that is worthwhile is now living on my external hard drive, and from time to time I'm going to get it into an intelligible order. All several hundred Gigabytes of it.
And then I'm going to make backups of EVERYTHING... at 4 and some Gigs per DVD, that's going to take a little while...
"Why?" you might ask... Well, to put it simply, it's because I'm a hypocrite. I, like many other technically-inclined people, often remind others to back up their computer files. Yet I haven't made a genuine backup since sometime in early 2007. Instead, I've simply copied files from one drive to another to another... so I have multiple copies of everything, but I have no idea where anything is.
But now, enough is enough. My sorting project has begun. Everything digital that I own that is worthwhile is now living on my external hard drive, and from time to time I'm going to get it into an intelligible order. All several hundred Gigabytes of it.
And then I'm going to make backups of EVERYTHING... at 4 and some Gigs per DVD, that's going to take a little while...
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