“About midnight will I go out into the midst
of the hard drives: And all the firstborn in the master
drive shall die” ~ Exodus 11:4-5... paraphrasing
I've come up with a system to polish the space within the hard drives to maximize space. Essentially, there are apparently three things that clog up memory in hard drives:
- "Firstborn files" - early versions & drafts
- Duplicate files
- Bulk files
Bulk files are the easiest files to find, and in the case of the master drive, it was the most easily identified congesting factor - the wanton hoarding of bulky media files. I began compressing quicktime movies into mpeg-4 files. The first compression session raised the free space on the drive from ~2GB to ~80GB, the second session raised that to ~166GB, and the third raised the free space to > 500GB. Inversely, this means that in a few hours I'd lowered to occupied space on the drive from ~750GB to ~250GB, and I'm still not done cleaning.
As of now, my plan is to:
1) Finish compressing bulk files
2) Merge similar folders
- i.e. "Visions 2011" & "Visions 2010/2011"
3) Purge "firstborn files" and duplicates
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