Oh, forgot: one of the "surprises" had to do with email. Even tho I use gmail, which keeps all the email in the cloud, the mail *clients* (apps that interface with the email on the server) often store a huge amount of my email in a local "cache". We're talking 10s of GBs.
Try running one of these storage hierarchy apps and let us know what you find. On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 10:19 AM Owen Densmore <o...@backspaces.net> wrote: > I'd recommend using a program that tells you where all the storage goes to. > > My OS has a simple facility that tells me I have 75GB left out of 250GB > SSD drive on my laptop. That's OK but prompts me to run a finer grain > program that tells me what my folder hierarchies contain. It good in that > it tells me the total storage of each top-most folder, then dives into each > of them, recursively telling how much each of the second, third, etc level > folder contains. > > Doing this is constantly surprising! For example, I found that my photos > and music were well over 10GB. And that my programming libraries > (./node-modules) were absolutely out of control. And many apps and system > tools have huge "caches" of files. > > My solution is to use DropBox, a cloud storage and sync (sync == keep the > files synchronized over my various computers, tablets and phone). Syncing > can actually cause a huge *increase* in storage, but DB has a simple > setting that tells it to just use the cloud version, thus turning into a > fairly easily managed system. > > DB also lets me share files with others easily, so for example I can share > a model/simulation I'm working on with others. Github also solves this sort > of storage but I think isn't germane here. Google Docs might, however. > > So I developed a simple approach to DB: any keystroke I make ends up > there: i.e. all docs I create is on DB. Photos, no .. I take the pictures > but don't edit them .. i.e. add/subtract bits, thus they do not fall under > the DB range, just backup. > > DB isn't cheap .. it starts out free for up to 6 GB but its first paid > level is $100/year for 1TB. And it hasn't got all the features I need. But > so far is the best for me. > > I find that my cog load for my own docs is around 20GB so am happy with > cloud storage for all the rest. And actually, a lot of my cloud storage is > a form of backup. > > Do you have a similar situation? I realize storage is "domain specific". > > -- Owen >
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