Cleaning Up

My last week in Missouri, my computer started struggling with basic functions (running e-mail, saving anything) because I had less than 1 GB of space left on my hard drive.

This was totally unexpected. I hit my 2 year anniversary with this computer in August. I did not think I should be out of space yet. I don't really do that much on my computer.

Last week, I emptied my trash and then moved some stuff onto my external hard drive. That got me to be barely functional.

Today, I went through my pictures and deleted about 4,000 pictures. This is not an exaggeration. Yes, I had that many I didn't need--one of the "cons" of the digital era. Still it didn't free up any space. Then I realized I also had a trash can in iPhoto. In this trash can there was over 20,000 pictures (Once again....not an exaggeration).

Yeah, emptying this out freed up 60 GB.

Let's just say my computer is much happier. Things are operating and working faster!

Crisis solved.