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I've been bumping up against the limits of the 60GB hard drive in my laptop for years now. I have two external hard drives, but my music and photo files, which I always wanted to have on my laptop, together claimed almost the whole space. I finally caved and moved two of my photo libraries exclusively to an external. I now have 12GB of free space on my main hard drive. I feel giddy with all the possibilities that have opened up! Strange.
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When I found out that iphoto had it's own trash that needed to be emptied separately, I realized I had three years of pictures I had thought I had deleted, and suddenly I had six gigs of available space. I could download new things and manipulate files and move stuff around to externals. All you need is a couple gigs of wiggle room and it's like a whole new computer.
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It's not really much to show off, when you think about it. All you really need to have 1.5TB today is $200 in disposable income. Storage has gotten so cheap that the real show-offs need to actually bling their hard drives with spindle windows and LEDs nowadays. *grin*
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(Sigh) I need to change my primary hard drive for something bigger one of these days; all the little additions and programs that really "want" to be on the C: drive are starting to cramp its confines.
I'm looking forward to re-installing the OS and trying to get all the various drivers and "essential" programs working again in much the same way one looks forward to a long-delayed visit to a dentist.
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Sterling: if you buy a retail drive, you might luck out and get a ghost utility bundled. This would allow you to copy your entire current drive intact onto the new drive, thus eliminating the need to reinstall anything.
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If you have a mac seriously consider this app. It gives a really nice visual representation of your hard drive use and lets you find little things that can save you space. I found that I had two versions of keynote and that Microsoft Office is morbidly obese. It's a really nice, free little app.
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quote:Originally posted by dantesparadigm: If you have a mac seriously consider this app. It gives a really nice visual representation of your hard drive use and lets you find little things that can save you space. I found that I had two versions of keynote and that Microsoft Office is morbidly obese. It's a really nice, free little app.
SequoiaView does the same in Windows
Edit: Miro, if you ever get back to having some real free space on the drive, try to keep a good chunk free. Drives are happier when they have some breathing room. I know how hard that can be with a laptop (I had a 30GB main drive for about 4 years), but it's worth it!
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quote:Originally posted by TomDavidson: Sterling: if you buy a retail drive, you might luck out and get a ghost utility bundled. This would allow you to copy your entire current drive intact onto the new drive, thus eliminating the need to reinstall anything.
I'll look into it, but I'm torn. Part of the reason to do a reinstall is to get rid of the accumulated detritus that slows everything down. It's kind of a "eat your vegetables, they're good for you" kind of situation...
Still, it's a good thought, thanks.
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dp - Thanks for the link. I used that program and found out that an iPhoto library I had deleted a long time ago (I no longer use iPhoto) still existed in a second location. That's 5 gigs of additional space!
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