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Swandive into music
Feb. 6th, 2011 10:28 amFor Christmas, my dad bought me a one terabyte external harddisk. A perfect present for someone who's on a laptop and struggling for every MB of harddisk space.
The astonishing thing is that within my lifetime, we've gone from datasettes to floppy discs to huge hard drives, from KB to MB to TB, from plug-the-telephone-receiver-into-weird-things to broadband. By the way, speaking of telephones, part of me wants one of those "retro" phones with dial plates, you remember, the things you had to put your finger in and turn around?
Anyway, the TB HD. Oh, and yes, I named my harddrives, which is more aesthetically pleasing than "C:" and such. So the C: drive is called "Cephalus", the D: drive "Demeter", and the external TB one "Felix" (because it was purring when I first turned it on). So the other day, I shovelled a lot of data from Demeter to Felix, and reset the iPlayer and iTunes to load onto Demeter instead of Cephalus. That freed up a lot of space on both internal drives, especially after I found out that the iPlayer doesn't neccessarily delete programs that have been watched and deleted, or have run out. It seems to be a known bug, and users are asked to manually delete things, which I did.
However, all my collected data barely made a dent into the space on Felix. And after an annoyed search for one specific piece of music on the mp3 DVDs that I burned so long ago from my CD collection before I came to the UK, and one of those DVDs being barely readable for some reason, I decided to put all the music on Felix. Again, it barely made a dent.
Now I am happily sorting through the various folders and trying to make some kind of order - alphabetically is out of the question, but a few categories and subfolders should do the trick - swandiving into and swimming around in the music that I've not listened to in ages, if I even remembered that I had it. The music is random and eclectic. Fun!
ETA: "Common People", sung by Tom Baker. :-D
ETA2: Good thing I'm doing this, at least one of the DVDs is half-corrupted. Of course, it's the one with the Beatles albums on it.
The astonishing thing is that within my lifetime, we've gone from datasettes to floppy discs to huge hard drives, from KB to MB to TB, from plug-the-telephone-receiver-into-weird-things to broadband. By the way, speaking of telephones, part of me wants one of those "retro" phones with dial plates, you remember, the things you had to put your finger in and turn around?
Anyway, the TB HD. Oh, and yes, I named my harddrives, which is more aesthetically pleasing than "C:" and such. So the C: drive is called "Cephalus", the D: drive "Demeter", and the external TB one "Felix" (because it was purring when I first turned it on). So the other day, I shovelled a lot of data from Demeter to Felix, and reset the iPlayer and iTunes to load onto Demeter instead of Cephalus. That freed up a lot of space on both internal drives, especially after I found out that the iPlayer doesn't neccessarily delete programs that have been watched and deleted, or have run out. It seems to be a known bug, and users are asked to manually delete things, which I did.
However, all my collected data barely made a dent into the space on Felix. And after an annoyed search for one specific piece of music on the mp3 DVDs that I burned so long ago from my CD collection before I came to the UK, and one of those DVDs being barely readable for some reason, I decided to put all the music on Felix. Again, it barely made a dent.
Now I am happily sorting through the various folders and trying to make some kind of order - alphabetically is out of the question, but a few categories and subfolders should do the trick - swandiving into and swimming around in the music that I've not listened to in ages, if I even remembered that I had it. The music is random and eclectic. Fun!
ETA: "Common People", sung by Tom Baker. :-D
ETA2: Good thing I'm doing this, at least one of the DVDs is half-corrupted. Of course, it's the one with the Beatles albums on it.
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