Comments on: 30 days of ideas – 06: SpringCleanr http://andrewdubber.com/2010/03/30-days-of-ideas-06/ This is my blog. It's about the things I do and stuff I find interesting. Thu, 10 May 2012 09:46:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Ben http://andrewdubber.com/2010/03/30-days-of-ideas-06/#comment-591 Ben Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:01:02 +0000 http://www.andrewdubber.com/?p=3245#comment-591 Love your idea, have had a similar dream for a while - I have performed numerous "backups" of entire drives, thousands of useless files, and duplicates of photos and other media, much too time consuming to manually compare. I'd love something that moves all my documents and photos etc to my RAID'd file server, after removing any exact duplicates, and keeping 'versions' of modified files. Love your idea, have had a similar dream for a while – I have performed numerous “backups” of entire drives, thousands of useless files, and duplicates of photos and other media, much too time consuming to manually compare.

I’d love something that moves all my documents and photos etc to my RAID’d file server, after removing any exact duplicates, and keeping ‘versions’ of modified files.

]]> By: Jonathan Melhuish http://andrewdubber.com/2010/03/30-days-of-ideas-06/#comment-590 Jonathan Melhuish Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:43:00 +0000 http://www.andrewdubber.com/?p=3245#comment-590 I've been thinking along the same lines, as this is surely a problem so many people face. My personal favoured solution would be a program that just silently uploads the least-recently-accessed file to "the cloud", mounts it on a virtual disk and links the old file to the online file. That way you'd hardly notice the difference in the unlikely event that you actually open the file, so long as you're online. Obviously you might land up with loads of crap in the online storage locker that you don't really need, but the ever-decreasing cost of disk space means that might be a problem that doesn't cost you enough to solve. I’ve been thinking along the same lines, as this is surely a problem so many people face. My personal favoured solution would be a program that just silently uploads the least-recently-accessed file to “the cloud”, mounts it on a virtual disk and links the old file to the online file. That way you’d hardly notice the difference in the unlikely event that you actually open the file, so long as you’re online.

Obviously you might land up with loads of crap in the online storage locker that you don’t really need, but the ever-decreasing cost of disk space means that might be a problem that doesn’t cost you enough to solve.

]]> By: Hugo http://andrewdubber.com/2010/03/30-days-of-ideas-06/#comment-589 Hugo Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:29:14 +0000 http://www.andrewdubber.com/?p=3245#comment-589 I really like this one Andrew! I am in a similar situation: everything that I have to look at all the time is cleaned up and works well. I have nothing on my desktop (not even a harddisk icon) and use Launchbar to get to the folders and my files. Still, there is a pile of 'stuff' taking up space on my hard disk. I like to keep my music library at hand, so that's fine, but there are so many files I don't really know of anymore or I can't decide if I'll need them at a later stage. So a system to help me organize this with four simple options would be great. I'd buy it! :) I really like this one Andrew! I am in a similar situation: everything that I have to look at all the time is cleaned up and works well. I have nothing on my desktop (not even a harddisk icon) and use Launchbar to get to the folders and my files. Still, there is a pile of ‘stuff’ taking up space on my hard disk. I like to keep my music library at hand, so that’s fine, but there are so many files I don’t really know of anymore or I can’t decide if I’ll need them at a later stage. So a system to help me organize this with four simple options would be great. I’d buy it! :)

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