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I type Command-F to bring up a Spotlight window, and then searched for all files with "dmg" in the name. I believe that files in this directory never get transferred by Migration Assistant during a move to a new system, but just to keep my own housekeeping tally straight, I wiped some gigantic cache folders from programs I rarely, if ever, use. I also found some horrifically large files in ~/Library/Caches. Three different shareware utilities that do the same thing? Hello Lostify, farewell Parsley Is Atomically Delicious and MetaX.
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So I took a walk through my Applications folder and cut any program that I hadn't used recently, figuring I could always download or install it later if I needed to.
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Unfortunately, that still wasn't good enough.
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And worse yet, folders in ~/Library/Application Support full of support files for programs that I deleted when the dinosaurs roamed the earth. With all the old files gone, my next victims were ghosts - programs I downloaded a zillion years ago that still littered my Applications folder. I need to have the master files of all our Superguide eBooks around, but they can reside on one of the file servers here at work, not on my local hard drive. That HD video I have of David Pogue on the back of a cruise ship, acting like he's Leonardo DiCaprio and declaring himself "king of the world"? It fared better than DiCaprio's character in Titanic, and lives today on my external drive.Īnd so it goes. Disabled Fonts, please go to the lifeboat immediately. The transcript of every iChat I've ever had? All but last year's now reside in the lifeboat. My Eudora Folder, containing every mail message I received from 1995 until late last year? Snug in the bow of the lifeboat. Besides, you never know when you'll need that list of potential Eddy Award nominees from 1996!Īll files in my Macworld Files folder created before 2007? To the lifeboat. I have stories and articles files dating back to the mid-'90s.
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All those comic books I have in PDF and CBR formats, ready to be read at a moment's notice? Slinging webs and battling the Green Goblin on the lifeboat. The contents of my iPhoto library, likewise transferred to a new home on the lifeboat. If they were still vaguely useful, they migrated to the lifeboat. All the videos on my drive met one of two fates: if they were useless, they visited the Trash. My iTunes and Amazon MP3 purchases, which have been collecting on my drive since I began purchasing music online, now reside on the lifeboat (as well as on a separate backup device). You will be copying files for approximately 800 years.įirst into the lifeboat: media files. So I formatted that drive and turned it into a lifeboat of sorts. Now it's become a place to stash older files that I'd like to have around, but not necessarily right at my side. Now that I have a snazzy 500GB Time Machine backup drive, my old clone drive - the 120GB drive I used to back up to via Super Duper! - has been sitting around gathering dust.