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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
How much space does your digital "life" take up?
I just updated all my backup stuff on my HD and realized I've got about 430G of data (not programs). That just seems kind of shocking to me... anyone else care to share?
Re: How much space does your digital "life" take up?
I can fit all my digital life on an 8G flash drive. That's including pictures/videos!
I think you may need to do some serious cleaning.
I'm limiting myself to my 120GB HD. I would start to delete anything I didn't need after that.
"They say with time it gets better. Not true. With time you only get used to it."
Roughly 50 GB, but that is only photos and videos, and doesn't include anything else I would be miffed at loosing, like documents, music, and recorded TV shows.
I think 8 GB is unrealistically low (at least for me). I have easily that many pictures from my trip to Tahiti. I paid a lot of money for that trip and I'm going to remember ever spec of it!
I wouldn't go overboard with deleting, but unless you really feel like the things on your computer are necessary (or have sentimental value), try cutting your files in half. Your computer should run tons faster too! (Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on the last bit.)
Yeah, I'm in the same boat. My hard drive is only 150G, but I filled it to the brim and then some with recorded TV shows that I transfer to my iPod to watch on the bus, so I have the original, then the MPEG4... I also have a DSLR and I shoot RAW and develop big JPEGs, and our camcorder (and all the video from our vacations/honeymoon, cat doing ridiculously cute things, etc) gets dumped on there, and I have a TON of downloaded and ripped music... I could never do 8G, but I might realistically be able to squish it to under 300G by deleting the JPEGs of files I already have RAW for and getting rid of the originals of the TV shows I've converted, etc. I think that will be my project for this weekend. My hubby also suggested zipping stuff into folders to compress things further. We shall see how it goes.
I don't know exactly, but I'd guess a few hundred GB. Probably around 250-300GB. Most of ours is photos, because DH and I both have had digital cameras for a while, and we travel a lot. Since we're photo-happy, we have tons of images. We could probably trim down a bit by going through them and getting rid of near-duplicates and poor photos, but I think we'd still have over 200 GB. Oh, wait. That includes backups of all the photos, so I guess we're really at 125-150GB.
My website is at 13GB, but that includes my public photo album, which includes the digitally-edited copies of our favorite photos.
As for actual documents, we tend to keep the originals for most things. Tax returns, mortgage papers, etc. The only things we keep digital copies of are passports, important immigration documents, and a few financial records. All of that together easily fits on a 4GB flash drive.