disk drive clean up!!!!
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- suffix
okay boys and girl.... both my mac and PC are running out of space pretty quick and my external harddive is getting pretty full.... i was wondering if there is any good software to clean up teh harddive... somethign that will tell you duplicate files and tell you waht folders are teh largest or taking up teh most space on your HD... i'm looking for something that gives you a list of folder that are teh biggest.... and soemthing that is available for mac and PC... THANKS!!! =^..^=
- Peter0
Delete all porn, or at least get a cdburner. Clearing the duplicate files won't be enough - you should have at least a few hundread megs free for the os, scratch disks, etc...
- suffix0
porn is all gone.... i have a CD burner, but i have had too many bad exp. with getting crunky CDs and i don't want to risk it anymore... i back up most of my stuff on my external HD, i just want an app tha twill tell methe folders that are teh largets so i can clean it out. i'm not to concerned with dup files
- Mick0
Windows>
STart menu - search > for files or folders...
check size = at least 10000KB will list all files over 10megs
Also try START>programs>accessories>syste... tools>disk cleanup.
- mogulism0
you can get a program called Spring Cleaning...I use it and I have a Mac but I dont know if it works for PC's...im sure it does.
- jayyy0
Never knew Windows had that disk cleanup feature - nice.
Can't say it saved me a whole lot of space - but nice idea.
I'd go with the first suggestion and backup all stored work onto CD (good branded CD's with jewel cases!)
- sexypixel0
you shouldnt really on your external drive as a backup. I did and the drive failed last week, lost heaps of work and all my mp3's. always burn to cds
- ribit0
I'm planning to use 2 Firewire drives to do incremental backups of the same stuff from our site, one at work and one at home...not much chance of them both dying, (or being stolen)at once... a lot less hassle (and more accessible/searchable) than a stack of CD's...
- unknown0
delete the porn
- err0
Suffix
get a DVD burner from school b4 you graduate and burn burn burn. Probably the cheapest route.Also all that DV porn you got you should bounce on to DV then bounce that to DVC (if they still use that) or DVD or another DV (2 copies).
MP3s you don't need all of them do you? at like 3-4 mb a song you could save yourself a few gigs. and delete duplicates.