So, yet another snow day yesterday - Dallas got 5" of snow, OMG can U believe it?!?!
Anyway - I took a break from playing all those video games to spend some time "organizing" files and whatnot on the computer. Since college, I've amassed a collection of probably 100+ CDs of pure junk. many of them are duplicate copies of in-progress portfolio files, misc word documents, etc. Some of them came from driving back and forth to St.L to visit KTO while I was in school. I didn't trust jump drives (or flash drives, or pin drives, or whatever term you use) so I would burn a disc, dump it onto her computer, then burn a new one to go home with. crazy, I know.
As for the files and info, I haven't needed any of it recently, but I like to double/triple/quadruple check before I just junk them. So, when I moved to Dallas I brought them all with me, and I told myself I would finally organize and sort them. I haven't really done that thus far, and I haven't done it today or yesterday. What I did do, though, is go through and dump all the various stuff into a folder on my computer, which I then sorted into a few folders to burn new CDs or DVDs. So while I haven't yet gotten rid of any files, I have reduced the quantity of disks. There is a pile of CDs on the floor that I intend to scratch up, then pitch them. Or stack them neatly and see if I can find a place to recycle them or something.
What is amazing is that in all those discs, there are tons and tons of copies of the exact same files - date and size the same, no changes. just stuff I felt the need to duplicate over and over. I have a DVD full of AutoCAD stuff - files, settings, etc. There is also a whole DVD's worth of portfolio stuff. Again, much of it the same, but you never know, so I'm putting it all in one place.
3 comments:
i know that feeling... i had a ton of zip disks. not exactly sure how i was to get the information off of them now that that hardware is obsolete. so i trashed 'em. will i ever need that stuff? probably not... and it felt good to get rid of some stuff.
it certainly felt good to go through some of it.
the portfolio stuff i could weed through some more - some of it was just .jpgs of final portfolio pages - those wont help me now - so i fee like i probably only need the master files, and maybe .jpgs of the last two versions - not 5 years worth of portfolio work.
the miscellaneous stuff i could probably pitch entirely - do i need crappy poems from freshman year of highschool? no. english papers from college? no.
I would love to go though all of my stuff too but there are other things that I totally want to organize first.
I sadly think I still have floppy disks from grade school...don't think I am crazy.
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