I wish I hadn’t deleted a lot of older documents wayyy back when. Mainly I did one system restore that I thought was an overwrite, but actually put the system back to factory default. Lost any and all e-mail or writing or what-have-you that I had before about 2000. :-\
Now I’m better about backing up, but I have stuff tucked away in odd places. Part of what has me fired up about guitar stuff is that this weekend I came across a cache of old e-mail messages from a computer I had back then. Most of them are junk, of course, but there were a lot that reminded me of a lot of the interests and contacts I all but dropped after Mom was sick and I lost my job and that whole rough year.
I think it’s time to move on...or back. Or something. ;-)
Well, I decided to be un-sentimental about old email. Most of it is meaningless frap, and I wasn’t going to read through all of it to find the one or two messages that aren’t meaningless frap.
My Outlook file was taking up 1.7 Gigs. And it was a biggie that was showing up as fragmented and unfixable when I did that. So I went in and deleted everything more than a year old, and all messages that had big attachments, and cut it down some, but it’s still 1.4. Is there some big file of autoarchived stuff sitting out on my computer somewhere that could be deleted?
As for other files... I went through a few of my picture folders and deleted some, but I could do more of that. Those are on my storage disk though, and there’s plenty of room on that. My trouble has been finding what I’m looking for in thousands of pictures of horses.