Every time I record an edition
of The Sound of Nottingham UK I get a
warning from my computer telling me that I am running out of disc space. This
leads to a panic deleting session while the show is saving in order to make room,
a bit like when your hot air balloon is losing height and you need to jettison some
weight. I end up deleting things that I don’t really want to and finding them
to re-download them when the coast is clear. Copying my audio archive onto CDs
and DVDs (The Sunday Alternative radio shows for
Trent Sound are too long for a blank CD) is a task that I haven’t got around to
completing and I never seem to get time to go to the shop and buy new USB
sticks. The ‘downloads’ folder on my computer is filled with songs and albums
that have been sent to me for the show, so I needed a way to keep everything
without it taking up too much room. An idea hit me that I can’t believe I didn’t
think of before, emailing everything to myself. Gmail has a seemingly infinite amount
of space available, so I set up a brand new address especially to use as
storage.
A lot of today was spent
emailing files to my new email address and then deleting the original file from
the computer, and then doing a paranoid check that the file I have emailed
actually works once the original has been deleted from the computer. Thankfully
they did, and I managed to clear a huge amount of room. In fact I am pretty
sure that every time I clicked ‘empty recycle bin’ my computer sighed the sort
of sigh that you make when you take your shoes at the end of the day. I’m sure
it is only psychological, but my laptop actually feels lighter when I pick it
up now.
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