Ask HN: Strategies for Organizing a Messy Hard Drive?
My desktop is overloaded with folders like "Old Desktop 3", and my 'Downloads' and 'Documents' folders don't look much better. Any tips for getting the clutter under control?
And honestly, I think it's great to take a stroll through my history, I end up on the lowest levels, my C:\ drive from the DOS era, along with directories of backups of floppies.. It gives me an idea what life was like back then, who I was, how I thought about things.
Storage becomes cheaper every day, and the data from back then is so insifnificant, the first 10 years of my computing fits comfortably within what capacity a new version of Firefox takes up.
SO yea, I don't delete stuff, almost ever. Maybe I'll go shoot a few Ubuntu ISOs once in a while, but all in all, everything gets to stay.
Oh the horror and joy of seeing which gifs 14 year old I decided to download off of IRC :D
Move the clutter to a folder in your cloud storage account. Configure that folder so it doesn't sync to your local device(s). In a few years you'll wonder why you still keep it around.