Cleaning up my Hardrive for the New Year!

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LOFA
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Cleaning up my Hardrive for the New Year!

Post by LOFA » Fri Dec 22, 2006 6:07 am

Who else has accidently saved a set where they accidently mic'd a drum kit with 8 ins and fogot to hit stop when the pizza came?

Well, I since stopped doing mashups I got like 5 billion acapella wav I don't need anymore, etc. I got 30gb left on my 250gb hardrive, and I'm getting ready to work on 3d animation.

It's gonna be a scary, selective night. I'm shooting for a hundred free gb's. Here goes nothing!
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Post by Silverfish » Fri Dec 22, 2006 6:11 am

Don't do it! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! You'll probably regret that about ten seconds after emptying your trash. Media is cheap....

Speaking of house cleaning, my drive could use it too. Hmm... Maybe 'delete' is the answer.
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Post by LOFA » Fri Dec 22, 2006 6:20 am

This is sooooooo hard......


I feel sooooooo blonde......


Hey? what's this..... ten hours later..........
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Post by FrankH » Fri Dec 22, 2006 10:24 am

I also need more storage. Cleaning up won't help much because i use many things.
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Post by hambone1 » Fri Dec 22, 2006 11:07 am

Don't do it! At least stick the stuff on DVDs, or pick up a cheap hard drive.

I'd love to get back some of the useless stuff I deleted just to make room for other useless stuff...
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Post by muscleandhate » Fri Dec 22, 2006 11:19 am

It's true, I wish I could hear those Reason songs I did years ago when I really had no idea what was going on.
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Post by frisbeedisk » Fri Dec 22, 2006 11:48 am

yeah as hambone says, if you aint using it now and you wanna get rid of it, bach it up onto a dvd, one day ya never know!!
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Post by LOFA » Fri Dec 22, 2006 4:17 pm

I am feeling your feedback. It took me hours and all I got up to was about 40gb. The last time I did this I free'd up 70gb, but I really have recorded days of material with my collaborater since then.

Most importantly, however, is I can install the EIC and Surgical Tools now without worry of space. I was hoping to put that money towards a new laptop, but I will just keep waiting till I can get a macbook for $500. Should be around March.

Snapz is one of the best apps I have coughed up money for in a while. Between working with it, director, quicktime pro, and live's unrenderable video warping, I was able to get a very fast A from a very demanding professor. Unfortunately, it very dangerous in how fast and easilly it can suck up your hardrive. It's making me very careful.


Be advised: handle the combination of snapz and live very sensitively.
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Post by knotkranky » Fri Dec 22, 2006 4:34 pm

yeah, you don't ever have to wipe a drive. When a drive gets to 80% i get a new one and pull important and current songs over and keep working. I don't think I've lost an audio file in the last 5 years or more and I still have every session I've done (clients too) in that time. Also when you copy a song to a drive, it's an automatic defrag. I haven't used format or defrag in years.
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system restore points disk space

Post by FrankH » Fri Dec 22, 2006 4:37 pm

Yesterday i took some information from my local computer shop about a larger 2.5" harddrive, 120 or 160 GB billion bytes (as 1000^3 and not gigabytes as in 1024^3). In the new year i will buy a new drive i think...

The Wind-OS just needs a lot free diskspace for System Restore and so on, not something you would like to turn off when running a stable system.
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Re: system restore points disk space

Post by LOFA » Fri Dec 22, 2006 5:15 pm

FrankH wrote:Yesterday i took some information from my local computer shop about a larger 2.5" harddrive, 120 or 160 GB billion bytes (as 1000^3 and not gigabytes as in 1024^3). In the new year i will buy a new drive i think...

The Wind-OS just needs a lot free diskspace for System Restore and so on, not something you would like to turn off when running a stable system.
This post is over my head.

Is this a new scale, change in units, or what? :?

I am on OSX btw.
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Post by ARDJ » Fri Dec 22, 2006 6:01 pm

i have 750 gigs of space (3 drives @ 250 each) and for some reason i only have 150 gigs left.

holy crap, no more sample cd's for me... i feel like a whore.
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Post by LOFA » Fri Dec 22, 2006 6:11 pm

ARDJ wrote:i have 750 gigs of space (3 drives @ 250 each) and for some reason i only have 150 gigs left.

holy crap, no more sample cd's for me... i feel like a whore.
I feel it. Part of the reason I'm tight on cash for a new harddrive is all this damn software I keep buying. It's getting hard to breathe over the stench of my own add.
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