Spring Cleaning #30: Take a Load Off Our Drives

Copying files to network drives and deleting them is pretty straightforward. On the S: drive maintenance is pretty much taken care of for you. Move it or lose it!

I scanned the forms created for Cataloging and Processing that are stored on network drives. There were files that were no longer used that needed to be deleted but not a lot of them. There were a lot more of my personal files that needed to be deleted. It's easy to just keep adding new files and not thinking about the unused ones when the storage capacity is always there or is expanded to accommodate the volume of files stored on the network drives. On a home computer you'll eventually hit the wall with storage capacity and be forced to deal with deleting files. Here at work that has never happened since the amount of storage capacity keeps getting enlarged to accommodate the need. The oldest file I found in my personal folders was created in 1998! It was used for a number of years after but it had been at least five years since that file was used. It's gone now!