[FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers

[Owen Densmore]

Oh, forgot: one of the "surprises" had to do with email. Even tho I use
gmail, which keeps all the email in the cloud, the mail *clients* (apps
that interface with the email on the server) often store a huge amount of
my email in a local "cache". We're talking 10s of GBs.

Try running one of these storage hierarchy apps and let us know what you
find.

On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 10:19 AM Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net> wrote:

> I'd recommend using a program that tells you where all the storage goes to.
>
> My OS has a simple facility that tells me I have 75GB left out of 250GB
> SSD drive on my laptop. That's OK but prompts me to run a finer grain
> program that tells me what my folder hierarchies contain. It good in that
> it tells me the total storage of each top-most folder, then dives into each
> of them, recursively telling how much each of the second, third, etc level
> folder contains.
>
> Doing this is constantly surprising! For example, I found that my photos
> and music were well over 10GB. And that my programming libraries
> (./node-modules) were absolutely out of control. And many apps and system
> tools have huge "caches" of files.
>
> My solution is to use DropBox, a cloud storage and sync (sync == keep the
> files synchronized over my various computers, tablets and phone). Syncing
> can actually cause a huge *increase* in storage, but DB has a simple
> setting that tells it to just use the cloud version, thus turning into a
> fairly easily managed system.
>
> DB also lets me share files with others easily, so for example I can share
> a model/simulation I'm working on with others. Github also solves this sort
> of storage but I think isn't germane here. Google Docs might, however.
>
> So I developed a simple approach to DB: any keystroke I make ends up
> there: i.e. all docs I create is on DB. Photos, no .. I take the pictures
> but don't edit them .. i.e. add/subtract bits, thus they do not fall under
> the DB range, just backup.
>
> DB isn't cheap .. it starts out free for up to 6 GB but its first paid
> level is $100/year for 1TB. And it hasn't got all the features I need. But
> so far is the best for me.
>
> I find that my cog load for my own docs is around 20GB so am happy with
> cloud storage for all the rest. And actually, a lot of my cloud storage is
> a form of backup.
>
> Do you have a similar situation? I realize storage is "domain specific".
>
>    -- Owen
>
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