[Hidden-tech] Help!

[Ron Miller]

Alan:
First thing, buy yourself a backup drive. I picked up a 160 GB Maxtor 
Basics Personal Storage 3200 drive for around $50 at Staples a couple of 
months ago. They retail for around $100 when not on sale and are well 
worth the investment.

Once you have that, back up all of your personal files to the backup 
drive. Then you can start going through the personal files on your 
computer hard drive and delete the ones you no longer need direct access to.

If you have video on there, offload it to the hard drive and back it up 
to DVDs. What about photos you might have uploaded from your digital 
camera. Over time, this all takes up space.

Then examine your programs and uninstall programs you no longer use.

When you throw things in the Trash, be sure to empty your trash to free 
up the hard drive space.

This should resolve some of the problem. If not, I recommend getting a 
new larger hard drive.

Ron


Alan Hurwitz wrote:
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> Esteemed Colleagues,
> I could really use a bit of advice. My HD seems to be filling up. I'm 
> getting messages saying my "Start-Up Disk is full." I'm sure I have a 
> lot of junk on my HD, that I could get rid of with relative impunity, 
> but I'm afraid of trashing something my Mac really needs to keep liking 
> me. Is there anyway to know what can safely be trashed? I do a lot of 
> photo work, and those images are taking a lot of space.
> 
> Also, a few of the folders I tried to trash won't go peacefully. I keep 
> getting a message saying "The file is locked." Is there a way to unlock 
> locked folders to trash them to make more space? Should I?
> 
> Any advice on any part of this will be greatly appreciated. I know I 
> eventually need to use a second disk drive, but I'm trying to delay that 
> for a while for various reasons. If anyone would rather give me a call 
> than e-mail, my number is 413-256-0931. Thanks in advance. (I'm happy to 
> provide some free organizational problem-solving to anyone who can help 
> me out with this.)
> 
> Alan Hurwitz
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