I helped a customer with his computer today and found out it lacked memory space. She was hoarding e-mails dating back about 15 years. And they had many attachments. We gained 300GB of space deleting those older than 2015. What data do you hoard on your PC?
Oh dear. I hoard music, pictures, and some apps I don't use as much as I used to. "Bloat," so to speak. However, I have at least wiped my hard drive several times and that has helped clear out some of the bloat.
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I had this life, people had 100s of GB worth of email like this (stored on a network share, no less) and can't understand why Outlook is slow, they are lucky it runs at all...anyway for me it's movies, TV shows, and a good bit of it is video games that I may or may not play again, so I never removed them
41 gb of Pics in various categories and also uncategorized, mostly downloaded, a few i took; 292 gb of music, including thousands of christmas songs for christmas, and also tons of songs ripped from online radio stations; 28 gb of random videos; 17 gb of porn; the contents of my niece's and my sister's friend's hard drives that I copied for some reason a long time ago; 223 gb of programs i've downloaded in two directories: new, and new_save (the latter is for stuff not to delete); multiple downloads of my entire gmail inbox, 17 gb each; 380 gb of Virtual Box and VMWare virtual machines; tons of installed applications; tons of random other things
My MacBook was soooooooo freaking sluggish. Waking it up was a 10 minute ordeal. I was having trouble saving word documents. They just wouldn’t save. Apparently, iMessage on my computer was keeping ALLLLLLLLLL my text messages, including a ton of pictures, since the year 2016. I was like… wtf … deleted that shit, logged out of iMessage, and my MacBook is running like new for the last couple of years. .
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