| 6ixStringJack: I've been kinda bouncing around to both types, and cleared up 500GB or so just tonight, and about half of the files I deleted so far are about as large as only 2 or 3 of the files in the other half of the files I've deleted so far. If I archive the stuff in 7zip, it will never bog down a File Explorer search again, and would virtually be erased and out of my life anyhow, but there would still be the ability to go back to it if the need were ever to arise. |
| 6ixStringJack: Man... some of this is going to be really tedious to go through. As much as I'd love to go through every damn file, I think my time would be better spent just going through the 30% of the stuff that takes up 99.5% of the space that doesn't need to be taken up anymore, and then just package the rest up in archives and a nice little bow. I might very well never look at any of that ever again after doing this, but if I ever needed any of it one day it's still there and it won't require days or weeks of purging all the stuff I know I no longer would ever need just to save maybe 10GB worth of space. |
| 6ixStringJack: I don't really have much interest in coding or making programs to run things. It's fun to do some minor coding challenges to keep the mind sharp and to learn a few new things, but it's not my wheelhouse or my real interest. I'm also a fan of the aesthetic of the old tech as well. There was a certain charm to it that doesn't exist with the modern ways of doing things, and since I still have a lot the old stuff, I see no reason in blowing up the backup data for some of those older ways unless I absolutely needed that space for something else. Even if it's largely inferior now to what I've done today, it's not completely useless yet. But boy, there's so much I can get rid of now despite what I'll be saving and that feels awesome. |
| 6ixStringJack: But I can't just go willy-nilly purging everything. There are still specific instances where older (and mostly larger) data would be worth holding onto in a previous iteration because of compatibility it still has with some older tech that is still viable to me and to others, even though what I've done in the meantime largely mitigates any need for the older stuff. The newest stuff will be fairly easy to use and pretty cheap to store. Unlike the old days where you needed expensive equipment being modified to run this stuff, most of that work can now be offloaded to nearly any basic PC or Mac product, and everything I'm working on only needs large external storage. In essence, it's the library and I'm the Historian, which is what I've always wanted all along. |
| 6ixStringJack: I just made major progress on a few milestones that have been at least a decade in the making on my own project. In doing so, I was able to free up over 1 Terrabyte of data about a week ago, and I'm about to begin the process of going through various versions of now-absolutely-confirmed rednundant and outdated data which, if I stick to it, could net me around another 2TB worth of now-useless data. But I have to stick to it now and I can't put it off. Everything I've been doing the last few years is fresh in my nearly one-track-mind right now. If I were to take even a month off before doing this spring cleaning, I'd be too afraid to do it and risk losing something I'd forgotten and I'll be stuck with yet another newer set of data that will likely one day become obsolete. |
6ixStringJack: If I sound frustrated, it's not you. I'm frustrated with myself. I usually have to do things like this over the phone, but there is at least persistent feedback while I'm doing that. Here, I have to try to balance not overloading you with info, but not wasting time by giving too little at a time too, because of the nature of this tag log and the idea that this site could disappear at any moment entirely. I'll forget my own name in 25 years, but I'll still be wondering if you ever backed up your book or if you lost it one day. I don't want to live with that.  |
| 6ixStringJack: I want to make sure that you can find the single good version of your book and that you can still open it as you were used to doing and we'll go from there. |
| 6ixStringJack: We need to go back to pure basics now and start over. The only thing I want you to do now is to find your book that you know is your good and latest version. Then simply open it in Microsoft Word as you always would have when you were working on it. |
| 6ixStringJack: I don't know if we need to undefault anything just yet, and I fear that is going to be far too complex to try to convey in the taglog if we can't do a simple attachment file save if it is necessary, so I don't think we want to open that can of worms yet. The fact that you use Google Chrome as your browser and Gmail as your email isn't making things easier either, since I've rarely used either of them and things are just a tad different than they would be if you used Firefox as your browser and Hotmail/Outlook for your email like I do. I think you really would have had to go out of your way to change the default program that gets opened when you double click on a Word Doc to open it instead in Google Docs, which would require not just opening the file there, but uploading it there first via the internet before it opened. |
| Brenda: I wondered if opening her google docs would screw up something on my computer. |
| Brenda: Okay then how do I undefault it? You will have to send the message several times. I am going to work tomorrow and won't be able to do anything in the morning. |
| Brenda: Tried downloading into desktop with opening the download in email but it didn't work. It showed it as Edge instead of Chrome. |
| Brenda: Tried downloading into desktop with opening the download in email but it didn't work. It showed it as Edge instead of Chrome. |
| 6ixStringJack: If it doesn't ask you where you want to download it to, then it probably will default to your "Downloads" folder, which you can also easily get to from the left-hand side of any File Explorer window (in the list with the Desktop and Documents folder, among others). |
| 6ixStringJack: Try these instructions (The Gmail portion): [go to link] |
| 6ixStringJack: I kind of don't understand how you've been able to manipulate that file all these years and write the book but I can't seem to put the right words together to get you to do basic file copying and saving that you probably already have been doing all this time. Maybe Sigs can explain it to you in a less complicated way and I'm making it too complicated for you. This is about as basic as basic gets. |
| Brenda: In the subject line I once used the title on another one I used the title and book. No, the file went into the body of the email. It doesn't say copy but in file title I get docx. |
| 6ixStringJack: Right click on the document in the email you sent to yourself and click "Save As". |
| Brenda: In the subject line I once used the title on another one I used the title and book. No, the file went into the body of the email. It doesn't say copy but in file title I get docx. |
| 6ixStringJack: Horrible news for Democrats as far as the Senate and Presidency is concerned too... The Hill: Minnesota’s burgeoning scandals could have national implications [go to link]/ Dems might have to find 54 electoral votes in 2028, and they may end up losing 2 senate seats in November if Klobuchar runs for Governor too. |