Monday, January 21, 2008

Help!

I am cleaning my office. This may not sound like a big deal. Unless of course you know me or have seen my office. When I was a young man my nick-name was 'Packrat'. It was aptly chosen.

In the course of emptying boxes of crap I an finding all kinds of CD's worth of data. Music, pics. drivers, software, old games. I'm having a hard time determining what to keep and what to pitch. And one I;ve figured out what to keep, what do I keep it in?

What do you use to keep things neat and organized. What's your system?

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Piled up boxes of computer crap is not an organization method?

10:37 AM
Anonymous said...

What I've done in the past is take a large external drive and transferred the data from cd/floppy to that drive. Tedious but instead of having all those multiple items you have just the one drive.

Cyrus

12:19 PM
Anonymous said...

for just misc discs that you want to keep I find that a few largeish "big black books of death" (CD/DVD wallets) labeled and filed on a shelf are invaluable.



Nims

9:10 PM
Ed Dale said...

I recommend the use of a big green 50 gallon trash can...

1:17 PM
Ed Dale said...

Steve:

Have you seen this news item? A secret castle was discovered in the UK, hidden in a haystack.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080125/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_britain_castle

10:25 AM
Anonymous said...

Nims & Monkey use the "black books of death." As an organizational freak, I really like those for CD/DVDs.

6:39 AM
Monkey said...

I heard my name (Yes, It's Monkey) and thought to chime in. I use a variety of storage techniques.

1. Big Black Books of Death
2. Storage Bins in Shelf Unit
3. Piles on Desks
4. Piles in Corners
5. Piles in Boxes

Yes, I need to clean as well. Time to sort the bins and piles and books. Might be time to get rid of some old computer kit that is laying around.

10:37 PM
Unknown said...

I have a 30 x 40' barn.
I also cannot possibly get a vehicle into it, nor might I be able to get the generator OUT of it should it be needed. At least not without a bit of stumble and bash.
Keep the office space neat? I move stuff I'm aren't using and can find under the layer of dust out to The Barn. Problem now solved. What - you want to find something that was moved out there 3 years ago you say? *giggle**giggle* - WAH-ha-ha!
Fat chance.
;o)

6:35 PM
Unknown said...

"I'm aren't using"?
- nice, Cowboy, - nice...

6:36 PM
Anonymous said...

My "system" is similar to Cowboy's, except slightly more grammatically correct.

6:56 PM

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