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Posted 9/8/2011 9:48 PM (GMT 0)
If you're someone like me, with a computer at hand and all sorts of jumbled hobbies, collections, topics, research, photos, videos and so much more stashed on them...

Maybe it is time for a purge.  This year yesterday, I deleted 1,337 files from my computer.  I did not organize.

I saw this pop up on my "On this day in 2010" thing on FB.  This time I am sorting off the old files.  Finding the few good ones and ditching the rest.  Putting into neatly zipped bundles to burn to CD.

I don't have a whole lot of baggage at this point, but this still feels therapeutic.

Maybe helpful for someone else?

Posted 9/8/2011 11:18 PM (GMT 0)
I wouldn't know where to begin. I don't even know how to store something in a file properly. Or at all actually.

Glad that it helped you,

Have a wonderful day.

Hugs, Karen
Posted 9/8/2011 11:55 PM (GMT 0)
haha! "properly" I don't think that exists. I'm probably such a mess because I've changed my mind so many times about how to organize my life and never done the whole computer. That and I dump into catch-all folders. Whoops.

It's much better now. I found the files I am looking for.

I deleted 1,512 files and folders. I had no idea that I had that many! Funny thing is that last year, I did the first try at this and deleted 1,337. Digital packrat??! holy crap!

Anyway, it feels really good. My computer organized is a lot like having my brain organized.
Posted 9/9/2011 4:33 AM (GMT 0)
well done!! jamie
Posted 9/10/2011 12:47 PM (GMT 0)
Becoming a minimalist was the most helpful thing I have ever done. Cleaning visual and electronic clutter is a very enlightening feeling. It helped calm my mind down a lot.

Gem
Posted 9/11/2011 8:52 PM (GMT 0)

:-)   :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

       jamie this message goes out to you......hope you read it.

       i love at the end of your replys   you always say to remember to love yourself............

       some nearly 25 plus yrs with this bipolar illness i can look back and remember early on how i thought i loved myself when

       actually i have just learned who i am and how to love me.........

       i have better in control now.......yet it is often hard to to do something to help myself change my behavior and stay in control.

       so each time i can think to love who i am that it gives me the power boost i need.......

       pls. keep reminding others....

       jcd,  the bipolarfish

Posted 9/12/2011 5:01 AM (GMT 0)
Oh MY!  MY computer crashed and burned bad thanks to some microsfot issues.  I am glad I had begun the purge and saved some things to CD!  I did lose a lot!

I have a new computer now.  Working on sorting out my digital and print photos in a way that they are useful to create memories.  Some hard choices of what to let go of!

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