Well... some optimism?
I got a new hard drive today. One advantage of a new drive is that the old one was much smaller (and if I recall correctly I paid more for it). I figured that things would be simple from here on, just... missing a bunch of files
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So thank you (again!). I wouldn't have clicked the get more space button if you hadn't mentioned upgrading your Dropbox for linking your phone.
I actually think I might be able to fit most of everything on Dropbox. In part because... well, some of the files that are missing are my scanned pictures. Those were rather large, but the folder is empty now. Which is kind of sad, but for those at least I still have the actual pictures in albums. If I want to reminisce about sweet fuzzy puppies I can still look at them. Just not from the convenience of my computer.
And I found that flickr offers a terabyte of storage, which will easily hold the pictures I do still have.
Considering that Dropbox is just general file storage, I think it's going to be quite easy just to drag and drop the files I want to make sure I have backups of. I'm poking through some of the files now, and... sheesh. Some of the things I kept make me wonder what I was ever thinking.
For instance, I have pdf files of restaurant menus. From restaurants in Washington state, and it's been more than a decade since I lived there. Or a folder with AppleWorks user data. I don't even know when I last used AppleWorks, and don't think it's been installed on any computer of mine for... well, a long time.
So some extra cruft removal, then some backing up, and it seems that there will be a mostly happy ending to all this.
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Yay for dropbox! Love that service.
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