Any up for some digi spring cleaning?

KateD said:
I made a first pass through my previews and tagged almost 200 to delete. Mostly mini kits and freebies. So far I've actually deleted about 50 of them (the supplies, not just the previews :p).
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Finished deleting those - it ended up being about 5.5 GB of files. Now I'm going to start working on my downloads folder and start looking through the other scrap supplies that aren't in LR yet. More decisions to be made...
 
So I finished organizing all the files on my hard drive...I added previews and put them in folders...Tonight I'm going to start on my ehd...I trying to build enough stength to delete files :)
 
I need to do this, too, but wont have time this week. My photos need it badly! I'm going to attempt it next week when I (hopefully) have more time.
 
sounds like a plan!
My goal is to go through my scrap stuff and purge (delete) the kits I wont use and #2 is to organize my general downloads folder (this is a mess of work/scrap/general stuff right now!! )
 
I just ordered a new 2TB EHD. I decided that instead of cleaning and deleting I'll just keep filling more up. :w00t: No, really, we've been talking for a while now about how we needed another EHD and the price dropped on Amazon so I snagged it.

I use Backblaze for my backup and I've been running it for several months and I'm still not entirely backed up. I wanted to switch to Crash Plan but its telling me it will take SIX months to do the initial backup. I know I have a lot of data, but that's just crazy. I can't wait 6 months for peace of mind. We will have everything backed up to 2 different external drives and then the online backup as well.

What's worse than my scrap stash is my design stash. Oh my gosh. Its awful. My CU stash is pretty bad but my 'work in progress' folder of my personal designs is like the worst ever. I don't even know where to begin with it.
 
My digital scrapbooking folder is 102 gig. That's JUST digi supplies and doesn't count the 11.8 gig that is in my downloads folder that still needs to be sorted, most of it SSD stuff. I have 6 gig in my completed layouts folder, 196 gig of photos and 213 gig in my 'Designs by Sherri' folder.

I have some serious work to do...
 
Always an inspiration Lynette! I'm going to work on processing ALL my NEF files during the next two weeks (past your deadline, but realistic that way) so DH can finally install a SSD for my operating system for my laptop. We've only had the thing for six months!

Tee hee SSD is solid state drive in this instance, Sweet Shoppe Designs is already "installed!"
 
Sherri Tierney said:
I just ordered a new 2TB EHD. I decided that instead of cleaning and deleting I'll just keep filling more up. :w00t: No, really, we've been talking for a while now about how we needed another EHD and the price dropped on Amazon so I snagged it.

I use Backblaze for my backup and I've been running it for several months and I'm still not entirely backed up. I wanted to switch to Crash Plan but its telling me it will take SIX months to do the initial backup. I know I have a lot of data, but that's just crazy. I can't wait 6 months for peace of mind. We will have everything backed up to 2 different external drives and then the online backup as well.

What's worse than my scrap stash is my design stash. Oh my gosh. Its awful. My CU stash is pretty bad but my 'work in progress' folder of my personal designs is like the worst ever. I don't even know where to begin with it.
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I know with CrashPlan you can "seed" your initial backup. It's $125 but they send you a drive for you to mail back with all your stuff. I use BackBlaze but if I were to do it again I'd go that route with CrashPlan because my initial backup took months and months.
 
Woot! I'm off to bed tonight, but just wanted to post that I finished purging from my supplies and freed up another 40GB in my EHD! :D I expect once i'm done batch-processing layouts for printing i'll be able to get rid of more! (like, uh, my layouts from 2006-2010 maybe?)
 
Nettio said:
I know with CrashPlan you can "seed" your initial backup. It's $125 but they send you a drive for you to mail back with all your stuff. I use BackBlaze but if I were to do it again I'd go that route with CrashPlan because my initial backup took months and months.
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I saw that and I love the idea but I ended up buying a 2nd EHD instead. I figure with Backblaze I'm probably a month away from having everything backed up. I can spend less for the new EHD than it would cost for that CrashPlan option. I can then have 2 separate EHD backups of everything plus Backblaze. Right now my hard drive is just a disaster. A few months down the road, once I have cleaned out everything on it that I don't need on it anymore then I may consider going that route with CrashPlan. Right now I have roughly 200 gig of pictures and I'd say that probably 1/4 of them need to be deleted. I have blurry pictures and pictures my kids took of the floor, the ceiling, etc. I have some sets of pictures where I took 20 pictures in a row and the only difference in them is slight facial movements. I don't need all 20, I can keep the one I like the best and delete the rest. I keep my camera in burst mode and fire off several pictures each time I take one so I rarely get just one shot. No need to keep all of the duplicates when there is nothing really different about it, except maybe my subject is blinking. ;)

I worked on this all today some when I should have been doing the yearbook. :o My new EHD will be here tomorrow (and my new Kindle too!) so I thought I'd clean out some stuff today. I couldn't concentrate on the yearbook anyway with my kids fighting and my husband doing household projects.
 
I hope you're feeling better! I wasn't sure if I was going to play along because I was sick last week and had family visiting this weekend. But I got some time yesterday and today to organize photos. :) I don't know how much I deleted, but deleting wasn't my goal. I backed up some of my recent photos, deleted bad shots, and went through a bunch of folders copying the scrap-worthy photos to my To Be Scrapped folder. I still have more folders to get through, but it will be so nice to start LOs knowing I have new photos waiting where they should be instead of having to wade through folders to find what I want. Thanks, Lynnette!
 
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I have 17 GB less in my scrap supplies folder than I did when I started. I deleted a bunch and also added some supplies that had been in my downloads folder. I also moved all my photos and scrap suppliess off of the EHD and onto my laptop hard drive, so that I don't have to have the extra drive connected anymore. It felt really good to get rid of supplies that I knew I wasn't going to use - once I got started I just kept clicking "delete"! I think I'll go through another purge in a couple of months, because I know that I kept stuff that I probably won't use. The most important improvement was adding my laptop to my Backblaze account. My old system just wasn't working and I'd usually have up to a couple of months worth of scrap supplies and photos that weren't being backed up. Not acceptable!

Thanks, Lynnette!
 
I am in! Just reorganized, uploaded & ordered prints too! P
Having layouts in my hands gets my mojo floored! Love seeing it come to life!
 
I so failed at this... Not only did I not delete anything on my computer, I added some old stuff back on that I found on some old back up discs... :blink:

I really am going to do it, but I was so excited that I found a couple of old fonts I loved that I thought I had lost. And I also realized that I lost a bunch of layouts that I hadn't printed yet. :crying: I'm hoping I'll find a couple back up discs stashed somewhere and they'll be on that. I so need to delete and organize what's left. I have so much stuff, I can't find the stuff I want when I want it.
 
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