Clean up the documents on my computer

I’ve had this new computer for about a year, and I still haven’t transferred the documents I need from my PC to my Mac.

I received a warning message today that my hard drive is too full. I probably need an external drive for my photography, but I just bought an external drive for backup, so that will have to wait. In the mean time, I’m going to burn the less important photos to DVD. (I’m making two copies, of course, to be safe.)

The nice thing about Mac software is that it keeps things pretty organized. I’d be one big mess without iPhoto and iTunes.

Phew! Finally finished, thought it would only take 10 minutes but it took 3 hours!! But now, its all sorted and out of the way.

I’ve finally finished this one!! This goal took more than I thought it would, but it definitely worht the time, I found so many things I didn’t remember I had!! ...music I like and I was going to buy (again!), old pics, recipes, old and fun documents, and of course a lot of trash!

So apparently that horrible grinding noise my computer keeps making isn’t my fan, it’s my hard drive. Which means it’s probably about to go kablooie.

It’s been making the noise for about six months, so I need to get off my ass and start backing up my data. Which means I need to see what’s worth backing up and what’s worth saving.

Hold me, I’m scared. :[

Started with my music. I have about 10 folders with music, I even found that I have some songs twice!!

As suggested by Gina Trapani, I created a Temp file in My Documents and set Mozilla and AIM to download to it by default.

A tiny step, but it’s something.

so worth doing! Now there are only four different folders under my “My Pictures” folder, everything is organized and there are no loose, random files floating around! I even deleted a bunch of stuff, too, horrah!

Seriously, I haven’t even had my computer for a year, and theres over a thousand files in the ‘my pictures’ folder?! This is just ridiculous, I am a picture whore >_< I need to trash it all and start over again.

I need to do this in the worst way. I just save everything to my desktop, until I dont have room to fit anything else, then I make a folder with a generic title (also on my desktop) and put it all there till the same thing happens again. Too many duplicates and I am sure lots of stuff I dont even need. Hopefully telling myself I cant get a new computer till I clean up the mess will be the proper motivation.

KIND of. I mean, I’ve tried harder to put things in files where they belong but I rarely trash anything. Funny thing though, I’m moving this goal because I can’t add more. I’ve reached 43 things! I didn’t realize you actually had to accomplish something here. No, it’s a good thing, really. I just have to be more picky about my 43 things. : )