It’s almost Halloween and I just finished something I should have done three months ago: I cleaned out my hard drives. After upgrading to Apple’s new Leopard operating system, I realized I needed more free hard drive space to take advantage of its Time Machine feature. It’s ironic that I need more free hard drive space — I have two 500GB hard drives in my desktop. But for the past two months I’ve had only 20GB free on my primary drive.
How did I clean up space on that drive, you ask?:
- I deleted all the photos I’d marked as “Reject” in Adobe’s Lightroom.
- I backed up and then deleted all my episodes of The Daily Show, Photoshop TV, and Top Chef, which were probably over 80GB combined.
- I took advantage of Leopard’s new location for common searches in the lower-left corner of the Finder window. I looked at all Movies on my computer, found the raw video footage from mis-placed Final Cut Pro projects and deleted them. Luckily I didn’t worry about losing content since I keep separate backups of all Disk Images I use to burn DVDs.
“For those three easy steps, you too can lose those unnecessary [gigabytes] that weigh you down. ” Seriously, tonight alone I worked off 161 GB!!
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