Nice People 12: Nice in Nice

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

You can get free or cheap online "cloud" storage. Dropbox will hold about 3 CDs worth for free. Copy.com gives 20Gb so about 30 CDs but not so user-friendly.
idrive has 5Gb
Mediafire has 10Gb
adrive has 50Gb!
Worth using at least one of them so photos don't get lost!:)

A lot of my stuff is photos. I think the best thing to do with photos is to first get a separate Ext HDD and move them all to there. That's because then you've a "photos" drive - and it's quite fast.

Then, they're safe. Next get them all online..... because there can be issues with doing that.

[a] You have to sign up and try out each of them, binning many because they're unwieldy.
The transfer time, for slower connections, can be dire and it can cause you to "stop for now" and never get back to it. At least if they're all on one drive you can copy them online a directory at a time, then move the directory on the Ext HHD from /Photos to /PhotosUploadedAlready
[c] Photos can quite often take up a lot more room than you first thought and you end up hitting either your ISP bandwidth limit, or the host's limit

Over the years, there'll always be a "new solution".... so I think the best/first step for anybody should be to have a distinct and separate drive..... and all photos are then on there at least.... so if you ever change providers you know they're all there and you can upload them from that drive to online (again).

I've got photos in Flickr and Photobucket. My mobile phone is set to automatically backup to Google Drive or something (it offered something in the settings, so I chose "yes" and it does it).

So many options, choices, ways - and limits in terms of bandwidth, host limit and just the sheer time it takes to copy them at all.

The other 'problem' with some online photo things is the ability to share them with people/groups ... takes a lot of working out if/how you can do that, privately/publicly and what you're giving away (e.g. upload to photobucket to an account with your real name and you then can't share that randomly online as your name's in the url).

PasturesNew

Fridge/freezer .... it's quite a way down the list of things to buy, but sometimes, in this hot weather, I do wish I had access to the luxury of flavoured/exciting ice cream. Just one tub would seem nice at times.

I will get round to it, but it'll be a big decision .... never bought a fridge/freezer before so it's a major brain shift to get comfortable with what I'm choosing ... it's got to be A+ rated, max 60cm wide (I think) be self-defrosting and have the right mix of shelves and cubby holes with enough door storage space to take the number of bottles (and 4 litre bottles of milk/2 litre bottles of fizzy pop) that I might choose to put in it at any time ... and as close to £100 as I can achieve.

Nikkster

I don't want to go to school today

I've got a morning of meetings where I've not managed to action all my actions. At least it's Friday.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Fridge/freezer .... it's quite a way down the list of things to buy, but sometimes, in this hot weather, I do wish I had access to the luxury of flavoured/exciting ice cream. Just one tub would seem nice at times.

I will get round to it, but it'll be a big decision .... never bought a fridge/freezer before so it's a major brain shift to get comfortable with what I'm choosing ... it's got to be A+ rated, max 60cm wide (I think) be self-defrosting and have the right mix of shelves and cubby holes with enough door storage space to take the number of bottles (and 4 litre bottles of milk/2 litre bottles of fizzy pop) that I might choose to put in it at any time ... and as close to £100 as I can achieve.

Don't scrimp on freezer space. It will solve so many of your eating / cooking / buying for one dilemmas.

You can also freeze milk, so take advantage of the offers designed for those who have big families who guzzle milk.;) bread sliced toasts brilliantly, crumpets and muffins too. Left overs get frozen in Tupperware or bags for meals

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

I don't want to go to school today

Make it Bunk Off Day

chewmylegoff

Nikkster wrote: »

I don't want to go to school today

I've got a morning of meetings where I've not managed to action all my actions. At least it's Friday.

Turn up at 12 and say sorry, problems with the trains and you were in a tunnel so couldn't call. Alternatively blame the heavy snow.

lostinrates

Anyone up to advising me on beer?

I am getting it from local micro brewery, they have those bottles ( cannot thing of name, each contains just over two litres) .

There are two or three types of beer, a pale ale they do only in summer, a more traditional one ( bitter) and maybe a third....dunno....

How many people would two litres do? How many types should I get? ( you get to keep the plastic faux olde worlde bottles and it reduces the price on refills. I have two to take back for refill.

SingleSue

Opinions please....

Ex hubby has asked for me to send copies of the boy's birth certificates but without a clear explanation as to why he wants them (gave one reason to me but a completely different one to eldest)....what would you do?

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

Anyone up to advising me on beer?

I am getting it from local micro brewery, they have those bottles ( cannot thing of name, each contains just over two litres) .

There are two or three types of beer, a pale ale they do only in summer, a more traditional one ( bitter) and maybe a third....dunno....

How many people would two litres do? How many types should I get? ( you get to keep the plastic faux olde worlde bottles and it reduces the price on refills. I have two to take back for refill.

Is this for the big party with loads of DH's pals? In that case, he should know better than us. For some parties, the question would be how many two litre bottles you need per person, rather than how many persons per bottle.

PasturesNew

Finally cracked it - and can't believe I hadn't spotted it before ..... now running C: with 36% free space, I've defragged it and it's great.

I have always just run defrag.... never read the report. This time, I looked at the report (which lists the most fragmented files). This you can gloss over as it seems pointless if you know files are fragmented, but can't do anything about it. This time I spotted SAVE. So saved the report to paw mournfully through the list of files...... and there it was. Yes, there it was.... my data gobbler.

Every month, since 2008/2009 or so, Property Bee has been silently making a .bak file in my Firefox sub-sub-sub directory. Over 200k every month .... silently.

So, I deleted the lot! 6GB freed up!

Easy ... wish I'd spotted it before!