In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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Did I mention I hate anything to do with caulk???? 
That's unbelievable. It took me over an hour to remove the bad caulk job from only one end of the tub. That oldskool silicone crap is not playing. It wasn't even necessary since it's outside of the shower...
Of course, the piece that was caulked was a horrible cut job, just as I suspected. There are places where it touches the wall, and other spots where the gap is over 1/4". Just amateur hour all around.
I think I'll have to add backer rod to my list of things to buy. I don't think I'll be able to caulk that right without it. Although I'm hoping that there's "something" back there already to support the backer rod and it's not all just empty space or that might be another problem.
Although I suppose if I'm careful I could probably use my brad nailer to affix it in a few places. Something is better than nothing.
Relax man...
You've had 14 years to do this. It doesn't need to be done in one week now that you're finally getting around to it.
I'm going to clean up that huge mess and then I'm going to install the drawers and door on the vanity. If I do anything else tonight it will be getting all that caulk off of the other side of the tub, but I doubt it. I'm not going to let that slow down my primer anymore than it already has. My plan is to prime the walls and ceiling by the end of day tomorrow, hell or high water. Just in case I didn't get all the silicone off the entire way down the wall, it will be good to have a coat of primer on it before I re-caulk anyhow. I know I got it all off the vinyl, but it's up so close to the window that it's really difficult for me to get my tools in there and I was using my fingernails to scrape a lot of it off before I hit it with 60 grit sandpaper and my vice grip hands.
On the bright side, that TSP really cleaned up the walls good. There's some weird stains that were always there that I've never been able to wash off the walls, but the walls actually look pretty white now compared to the nicotene stain color they looked like a few hours ago. I don't think anybody ever smoked heavily in this house before or I would have really noticed that years ago with the work I've done. In the bathroom it was probably just the humidity from the shower mixing with the dust in the air and plastering it to the walls is all.
I don't even feel like washing that off tonight, so I guess the TSP will just have overnight to work before it all comes down.
I'm really glad I broke down and decided to remove that caulk job. I would have hated myself for not doing it every time I sat on the toilet and had to look at it screwing up my paint job on the edges.
If I had enough room between the area that needs to be re-caulked on each side, I would seriously consider buying some 1/2" crown molding or quarterround to edge it off instead. But unfortunately there's only about 1" or less between those vinyl plates and the window on one side, and the door frame on the other side.
Hmmmmmm.....
Maybe?
I'm going to have to see how thin they make quarterround. That could be the best fix here if I can get it really thin and it's still thick enough to cover the worst gaps. It would probably actually look pretty fancy too. Something to consider...
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How about next month?
Sounds like you had a good time.
I don't blame you for not wanting friends to spoil you. Back to that "who owes who" thing we were talking about a while back. Even with friends, I think it can become too lopsided if you let the little things add up.
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Don't know about that. She is busy with her husband and his cancer treatments and she is back to work.
We did.
Usually when I see her it is for just a few minutes before she goes to her next client.I'm fair certain that she wouldn't expect anything back. I just don't feel like she should be wasting money on me is all. She's got her children, grandchildren and her husband to think about.
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Don't know about that. She is busy with her husband and his cancer treatments and she is back to work.
We did.
Well... you should probably consider seeing about it. At least this summer anyhow. Sounds like you really enjoy her company. Maybe you shouldn't wait for her to initiate something next time.
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I'm fair certain that she wouldn't expect anything back. I just don't feel like she should be wasting money on me is all. She's got her children, grandchildren and her husband to think about.
Those are the really good friends. Maybe you should let her do it. It sounds like she and/or her husband were fairly successful and I'll bet she gets a kick out of it.
You need to get new shoes, Brenda. If you're not going to let your friend buy you a pair, you gotta bite the bullet.
I've worn plenty of shoes down to the nubs and had tons of holes in mine too over the years, but I'm not getting any younger and getting around isn't getting any easier. I know you've already got some mobility issues and you've got to take care of those feet.
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I can go to bed tonight not angry about the bad things I found in the bathroom today...
The vanity... she is done. 
No more looking at this crap...
Done, yes... but maybe not exactly. I'm definately going to have to upgrade that crappy little faucet with something oil rubbed bronze. Hopefully that doesn't get TOO pricey with the need for that color. I know they're not exactly cheap these days anyhow. I had a few kitchen and bathroom faucets out in my garage, but none of them are anything I'm interested in putting in this bathroom. I think it might be time to just throw all of that away. I won't need them in the basement bathroom since I got my buddy's pedestal sink with a really nice faucet already attached. Not installed or anything, of course, but ready to go whenever I waterproof the basement and start working on the final touches of the house.
I'm going to have to replace the drain too. It was broke before I moved in, and even if it did work the top of the pull thing on the faucet was missing and it would have been a bear to pull up with my fingernails every time. The drain is all scuffed and nasty looking anyhow, and there's these weird "cut outs" in the black plastic pipe you see going into the white PVC trap and back into the wall that just holds moldy crap. It's really disgusting and it needs to go.
Oh right... after I took these pictures I added my little rubber dimples to the back of the door and the drawers to keep them from coming in contact with each other and scuffing the paint job.
It was 3M and not some dollar store crap, so they're just as sticky as they were the day I bought them, and not a single one I put up in the kitchen has ever fallen off. Somehow after all these years I've never lost that bag, even though I've used them 2 or 3 times now since I finished the kitchen. It's nice when you put things back where they belong when you're done using them.
Oh right...
I should get a picture of that scary electric that was behind the medicine cabinet.
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If you enjoy life and/or care about the people you live with and/or aren't trying to murder your customers and/or aren't intentionally attempting to get away with arson for the insurance money, here is an example of what not to do...
I'm going to call that one the Indiana Redneck Surprise.
I.R.S. ... any way you look at it, you lose.
Please God, make this the last time I need to open any walls for any reason in this house.
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So far, the cost for the remodel has been $0.00. The newest stuff I've bought and used was the paint, and that was for other projects years ago. The new hardware was already part of the stuff I bought for the kitchen. The caulk I used to do the trim was a junk tube from my buddy in the winter. The sandpaper was all bought years ago, as well as the brad nails. I think the nails were actually free after rebate, if I remember right. I've got more caulk than I know what to do with.
The oak medicine cabinet is beautiful. It was the original stuff in my rich buddy's McMansion. That was free, along with all the oak shelves and towel racks that were in the room too. The toilet cabinet was pulled off of a bathroom job I helped my buddy's dad with many years ago. It's not oak and it's crappy pressed wood on the sides, but it wasn't damaged. It's heavy as hell and built like a tank. It looks great after the paint job and it will look really nice when the doors are re-attached with a good spray paint job on the hinges and the new oil rubbed bronze knobs.
The one thing that is REALLY burning me right now is that I can't find the in-the-wall toilet paper holder I wanted to install. The one in there now is a crappy old brass color. This one I took off a bathroom job was wooden. I wanted to sand it down and paint it white like the trim. I know there's no way I would have thrown that out in a dehoard, so I'm going to have to clean up the garage a bit and see if I can't find it.
If all else fails, the existing one is in good shape. I can just clean it up and spray it down with the Rustoleum Oil Rubbed Bronze spraypaint when I get that for the hardware that needs it.
Until I get to tiling the floor, I don't think my total cost on this rehab is going to be over $60 or so. I'll need an electric box that secures to drywall for behind/inside the toilet cabinet, and I know I don't have one of those on hand. I should have everything else electrical that I'd need no problem. A small tub of wood filler and another of Dap. The metallic spray paint. I may run out of primer... I can't remember if I have another bucket on hand.
And I have about 5 different options for the vanity light out in my garage.
Unfortunately, only one of them is oil rubbed bronze. I really like the way it looks, but it has strange light bulbs I've never seen before. I'm going to have to see if they all still work and how expensive they are to replace. All of the other vanities use normal light bulbs. I'd have to spray any of those down to match all the hardware though, and I'm not sure that would look good on such a large surface area. It's got enough metallic kick to it that it makes the hardware as near a perfect match as you can get without buying all new stuff, but I think it might possibly look pretty tacky on a full decorative light fixture.
I've already got all the tile too. I've got about 7 different options out in the garage to choose from. I will probably have to buy the adhesive and the grout though. I've already got all the grouting tools.
If my buddy doesn't have any, I'll probably have to buy a length or two of baseboard. I'm not putting that disgusting crap back up or wasting any time repairing and restoring it. It wasn't even baseboard anyway. It was the same trim they used to do the door and the window.
The only real cost is going to be the toilet.
I have no idea what toilets cost these days. I'll have to start keeping an eye out for sales after I know what color I want it to be. I don't need it right away, and even if I fixed the subfloor and put the new tile floor in, I can still put the old one back until I find the right toilet for the right price. I want a REALLY nice one. I don't want to be stupid and just spend a lot on one without looking for sales and getting a feel on what the prices are, but unlike most other things in my life, I'm
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Don't know about that. She is busy with her husband and his cancer treatments and she is back to work.
We did.
Well... you should probably consider seeing about it. At least this summer anyhow. Sounds like you really enjoy her company. Maybe you shouldn't wait for her to initiate something next time.Quote:
I'm fair certain that she wouldn't expect anything back. I just don't feel like she should be wasting money on me is all. She's got her children, grandchildren and her husband to think about.
Those are the really good friends. Maybe you should let her do it. It sounds like she and/or her husband were fairly successful and I'll bet she gets a kick out of it.
You need to get new shoes, Brenda. If you're not going to let your friend buy you a pair, you gotta bite the bullet.
I've worn plenty of shoes down to the nubs and had tons of holes in mine too over the years, but I'm not getting any younger and getting around isn't getting any easier. I know you've already got some mobility issues and you've got to take care of those feet.
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I do enjoy her company and like I said we talk about all kinds of stuff. From politics to her family's doings and what happened with my mum and what is happening with friends of mine.
This time she gave me a day and I shot off a email to her about a time and we agreed on it. Maybe we will get together over the summer. Just have to see.
She enjoys her work as a support/care giver in house I know that. Don't know what her husband did in his work life. I think she does and it is nice to be worried about like that.
I will get a new pair in a bit but I got a major problem to sort out over this week.
Yeah, I noticed yesterday the left one is starting to get a hole in the toe and sometimes it feels like the soul on the outside is coming off even though I can't see anything.
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Laundry day for me then a little shopping.
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All done and a cold wind blowing when I was out. Just having a sit down now.
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k y BRENDA, have you considered that maybe the "lady thet took care of your mom" is more than the lady that toook care of your mom, and might be a friend? Possibly she likes talking with you as much as you like talking with her?
Just a thought.
Also, I second the notion of getting shoes that work for you. Bc of chemo neuropathy and a bunion, for a couple of years after chemo I did everything... walking the dog, gardening... in indoor/ outdoor slipppers. Yeah, they covered my feet but had no cushioning or support. I think that's when my knee problems started.
SIX, that remodel looks primo! That's amazing! But you're right, the wiring looks scary.
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Been running my *ss ragged with family Dr appts. Gotta see if hubby can get his back pain fixed, it's really disabling. So I'm going to schedule another injection for after his sinus surgery, and all being well after that he gets radio frequency ablation, which could last anywhere from 6 months to 3 years before needing a repeat. Daughter has some issues too, so she's going in for testing.
I used to think that being retired I should be able to get more projects done. But then I considered that taking full-time care of two disabled ppl (three, if I include myself) is the equivalent of a full time job. So I guess I should cut myself some slack.
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k y BRENDA, have you considered that maybe the "lady thet took care of your mom" is more than the lady that toook care of your mom, and might be a friend? Possibly she likes talking with you as much as you like talking with her?
Just a thought.
Also, I second the notion of getting shoes that work for you. Bc of chemo neuropathy and a bunion, for a couple of years after chemo I did everything... walking the dog, gardening... in indoor/ outdoor slipppers. Yeah, they covered my feet but had no cushioning or support. I think that's when my knee problems started.
SIX, that remodel looks primo! That's amazing! But you're right, the wiring looks scary.
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Been running my *ss ragged with family Dr appts. Gotta see if hubby can get his back pain fixed, it's really disabling. So I'm going to schedule another injection for after his sinus surgery, and all being well after that he gets radio frequency ablation, which could last anywhere from 6 months to 3 years before needing a repeat. Daughter has some issues too, so she's going in for testing.
I used to think that being retired I should be able to get more projects done. But then I considered that taking full-time care of two disabled ppl (three, if I include myself) is the equivalent of a full time job. So I guess I should cut myself some slack.
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You are quite right SIG. I should call her my friend.
I will get new shoes but like I said I have a biiig problem to solve this week.
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Don't want to share what the big problem is, Brenda? I believe I saw you reference that once or twice before. You okay?
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Nice... I managed to find all of my USB thumbsticks. Or at least the important ones, anyhow. If I find any more stragglers, the more the merrier, but I got the ones that had stuff I needed.
I'm in the process of putting together my "Repair" bag for when my buddy is ready to go through all his old crap and consolidate.
I know he has an ancient laptop that I mentioned earlier with huge problems. If it is possible to save it and do anything with it, I'll have the tools for it. But I just found out today that unless you use a very specific few versions of Linux in 2026, you can't even safely use an x32 version anymore. And I have my doubts that his laptop is x64 archatecture, so if that's the case I'll have a few other non-PC options to make his laptop do non-office related things. Otherwise, it's trash, because if I can't at least get the lite version of Linux Mint on there, I know there's no way he's ever going to try to learn Linux on something that's not as user friendly for life-long Windows users.
I've got an empty laptop drive external enclosure for getting the drive out and copying everything off of it from another much faster computer first before trying to install another OS.
I've got a 2nd enclosure with a 250GB SSD. Fastest speeds for transferring on any of my old crappy tech that I've ever seen topping out at 80GB/s. His tech will probably be the bottleneck there, but I've got a fast way of pulling off data slowly but then moving it to his newest PC quickly.
When I'm finished burning images, I'll have 4 USBs 16GB or less that have various operating systems to try out on the laptop and any other older computers, and several others to try to get them to do anything worthwhile before going to the trash heap.
I've got 4 sticks of memory that I took out of the two old laptops I had. I don't know how big they are or if they'd help him, but if he's got a spare spot free we could possibly get more memory in there. Or even better if my memory is larger and we can more than double what's in there.
I've got a really cool non-enclosure kit that can transfer data off of all types of hard drives including the larger PATA or SATA hard drives, so if we need to I can rip data off of his other desktop hard drives that way instead of through Windows 98 or whatever systems nobody else but he has been using for 20 years.
I'll also put together a thumb drive with all sorts of essential free programs that I can add to whatever good computer(s) he has left after we're done.
I'll have an RJ45 cable and some various USB cables from the extras I went through the other day.
And I've even got a nice bag for all of it. It was an old laptop bag that I had the two laptops I threw away jammed into it.
I've also got those Kindles and Fire Sticks to go through to see what is still usable today and how many extra I have to give away to other people.
Got quite a bit of rest yesterday and I think I might take today off from physical work again today too. I've got my hands full with the computer stuff right now anyway.
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Don't want to share what the big problem is, Brenda? I believe I saw you reference that once or twice before. You okay?
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I think I will be okay. Just some screw up with some real world paperwork. That's what I have to sort out.
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Just a lazy Sunday around me. Bit of tidying up.
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Found 4 bad hard drives in the attic. Not a huge deal since they were all 80GB to 250GB, but it's a bit of a bummer the 250GB drive is one of the laptop drives. It's the only one of the 4 that will fire up, but I tried cloning it since it was a backup clone of my old AIO that I may be fragging and repurposing, but it failed about 2/3rds of the way two times with a cyclical redundancy check. My drive tools aren't saying it's a bad drive, but it does say "Caution" which to me has always meant you don't put anything important on there. I wanted to have an IMG file of it in case I decide to go back to the old Windows setup I had on the AIO one day. I'll have to make sure I take the drive out of the AIO first and clone that before I do anything with it since I'm just throwing this backup drive away now.
Going to harvest the magnets and separate the metal from plastic. I know I have a box up there somewhere with about 30 old PATA drives between 160 and 320GB that I probably have no need for anymore even if any of them still work, so I'll be getting a lot of magnets and have a pretty big recycle pile when I'm done with that. I don't bother with recycling scrap metal, but I've got a few friends who do it all the time who wouldn't mind a bag full of mostly clean aluminum.
So I'm still getting some small stuff out while I'm working on the computer stuff. I really need to get back to the bathroom work though. Gotta mow the lawn soon too, if the weather would cooperate. Once that's done, I can go back to sanding the 3 or 4 pieces that still need to be sanded down. Nothing really left for me to paint at the moment. I could put one more coat of the dark on the doors and shelves to the medicine cabinet and toilet cabinets on the inside since they only got 2 coats, but I'd rather wait until I had all the other stuff that needs to be painted the same color before I do that. I'm running out of this color of paint and don't want to waste any paint in cleanup, no matter how little I lose.
Just didn't feel like scraping caulk or washing and priming walls today. It'll get done soonish.
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Boy... I'm glad that I looked for that box of drives right now while I had everything out. They're smaller than I thought. Only 120 to 160GB. Easily over 30 of them. Maybe 40. I remember buying them super cheap in a lot about 12 years ago for a project I intended to work on but just never got around to doing.
Not that I care now, but after the dehoard I made the mistake of moving them into the attic. Hot and humid is not a good space for old drives.
I am testing them out right now. I'm actually surprised that any of them still work, but so far I've got 4 160GB and 2 120GB that are working and passed the tests in GOOD condition.
I am going to keep 6 of them because I still have use for that many. I'm assuming none are over 160GB, but I'll keep the 6 largest drives made by good companies. Mostly Segate and hopefully all 160GB or larger, preferably. The Maxtors I wouldn't keep anyway, but they've all done me the courtesy of not working at all so far, making that decision even easier. The WD drives don't seem to be faring too well either. They can go with other stuff I'm going to be getting rid of, but at least I can build something out of it with other old tech I have up there (assuming any of that still works) and give it away instead of throwing it all in the trash.
Between these drives and the ones I've dismantled over the years, I think I'm finally going to be able to make that disc platter mirror I was always thinking about making. I'm going to have a ton of them.
That box was HEAVY. Might not be a huge amount of space cleaned out when that's done, but it's a good deal of weight that will be out of my life anyhow.
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Alright... so until I look at that other stuff, I'm going to keep 10 of the drives. They're all 160GB and they're all 7200RPM Seagate Barracudas. The best of the best of the collection.
Not a bad hour or two spent testing. I'm so glad that I finally found all my computer stuff and have it all in one place so I can do these types of things after neglecting them forever. I already knew 7 years ago when I dehoarded that I had no need for 35 hard drives anymore, but until I got around to testing/using any of them, I didn't want to just throw them all out. So with 10 saved, that leaves 25 drives to trash now. I'm sure I probably won't even need 6 when I get to it, but just in case one or two fail by the time I do, I've got a few spares. Once that work is done, I'll get rid of the rest of them. Might save that for colder weather though. I'll probably pull it all out of the attic and stage it in the small bedroom where I have the other stuff I need to go through like clothes.
I guess I'll be watching YouTube and pulling drives apart for the rest of the night.
That's cool. I didn't want to work anyways.
ETA... Boy... I forgot how long it takes to do these. Got about 24 star screws per drive that need to come off. Only did 5 of the 25 so far, and that's just throwing the magnets into a pile and not separating them from the metal they're glued on. Need to bust out two pairs of pliers for that job.
I've done some cool things with those before. I glued a bunch of them underneath one of my ladders and now when I'm up screwing things in I can just put a bunch of screws on the top and they all stick there. I know I pulled out at least a few nuts and bolts with a long tipped screwdriver with some of those magnets attached to it. They're insanely strong compared to fridge magnets.
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I've been able to fit yardwork in between family. My last task was pruning the feijoa up and out. There was a lot of dead stuff in there, and a lot of old bird nests. It's not entirely done, bc now that I can see what's what, it's time to get out the sawzall.
Also, at this point I need a wheelbarrow and pole pruner.
That'll have to wait for a bit tho, bc today is hubby's "Dr day". So I'll just have time for some raking and chopping and binning up. Despite the fact that I have to fit this in between other stuff, overall, it's going well. I actually remembered to take "before" and "in progress" photos. I can't wait for it to be done!
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Out on a Holiday Monday up here. Victoria day. Just the usual. Need groceries.
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All done for today. Even a little clean up in a corner. Sitting down now.
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Another hot and rainy day outside today. Oh well...
Got all those drives taken care of before I went to sleep. Somebody's going to have about 25lbs of aluminum to recycle.
Just doing drive cleanup and maintenance as I still babysit the distro transfer and make tweaks to my own setup right now.
Looking at what I've got backed up several times on different drives, I'm going to have to trash a lot of stuff over about 4 drives now and come up with a new batch of things I wanted backed up, since most of the backups on 2 drives are now severely outdated as well.
I've got one huge drive. I think the plan is to get everything over there so I can organize things, remove all the redundancies and then choose what I put on those other two backup drives after everything has been purged and cataloged.
Not really in a huge hurry to do anything else at the moment until maybe Thursday when it cools off and stops raining so I can get the lawn mowed and start sanding down what still needs to be sanded.
If I do any bathroom work today/tonight, it would be removing the caulk on the other side of the tub and washing the TSP off the walls so I can get a coat of primer up everywhere.
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So much to clean...
My old tech isn't helping much in that process, since I need to do most of this work remotely on the network unless I want to spend hours sitting cross-legged on my hardwood floor... which I don't. I am trying to speed things along using my new spare 250GB external when I can and where it makes sense.
Feels good getting rid of all of this crap though, even if it is going to take a while to sort through it all.
I think I'm probably going to end up buying one more 5TB HD once I'm done, just to assure a proper full backup of the truly important things, and to have the backup all on one drive instead of spread to a few smaller 2TB drives. If I end up with a spare 2TB drive or two when I'm done, I know I have uses for those that don't include backing things up and throwing them in a box for 5 years.
I looked at all the boxes I had up in the attic too, and if I go through all that old tech that should eliminate about half of the stuff I still have up there. Not a can of worms I want to open just yet, and I think I have plenty of more important things to keep me busy until winter starts, but getting that done before the end of the year is on the to-do list for sure.
When I went out to the garage last night, I realized how much dehoarding I've already done out there without even really intending on it. Between just bringing in all the clothes and tech stuff I had out there and finally getting work done on the bathroom and those bi-fold doors, the garage isn't looking nearly as cluttered as it was. Once I get my buddy to come over here and help me bring in that really fancy leather recliner a neighbor gave me a while back, that will really open up the half of the garage where my large work bench sits.
I've also got 6 large bi-folds on that bench that I probably won't need too. Once I know that the two bifolds I'm working on now do the trick, I can get rid of all 6 of those things. If I hadn't already made all those modular shelving units, I'm sure I could have done something with those too, but I can't see any use for them now, so they'll be a huge batch of trash going outside sometime soon as well. (Although, it occurs to me that those may be the right fit for the laundry room int he basement... there's never been any doors there, and they're not even really necessary, but if they fit, I may be holding on to the two best doors for the basement work).
Oh... and once I finish the bathroom, there will be quite a few other things I've been holding onto that I will be able to let go. I'll just have to decide if I want to keep any of them for the basement bathroom whenever I get around to it.
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How do I have over 30TB of space and it's not enough room???
It's rhetorical. I know the answer already. Just one thing I'd backed up alone ended up being backed up in 4 different spots in its entirety on my large drive, and two of those spots are reflections of two smaller drives I've got so I bet I find them at least 2 more times.
I think I've been burned so many times losing work by not saving that I've gone too far the other way with it.
I just have to get it all cleaned, purged and organized is all. Right now, everything is going into one pot so I can see it all and make real choices instead of bouncing around from place to place to place and forgetting what I was comparing.
What a mess...
Can't wait to see how far I can slim it all down.
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Things to do before I go out.
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It will be nice when some transfers finally finish here...
You ever try to delete something, but frustratingly enough it tells you that a file is in use so you can't delete it?
Doing this level of re-org and purging across a network, and things start getting weird...
I've got files so old here that there are "thumbs.db" files all over the place. Windows hasn't used those for quite a while, but even though they aren't used in newer OS's, Windows still recognizes them as a System File. So of course, I always get the obligatory warning about moving or deleting them whenever they come up, but half the time when I say yes to that it says the file is in use (when deleting remotely). But if I go to the computer itself and remember the folders that the bad files are in, I have no problem deleting them there. This has happened at least 30 times so far.
But the one that's really bugging me is a file that claims I need admin permission to remove. I'm the admin, and I'm also using admin privileges when trying to delete it and then it tells me that I need permission from "Everyone" to delete the folder. I've never seen that one before. I've even gone as far as trying to delete that folder in both Command Prompt and even Powershell with admin privliges and no dice. The strange thing is that over the network that bad folder doesn't show up at all. But if I try to delete the parent folder over the network, it doesn't throw any errors and looks as though the delete worked, but the folder remains.
I'm hoping after everything is restarted I can remove it. Otherwise, that's just going to be an annoying file tree that stays on that drive forever. It's my 15TB drive, and there's no way I can move everything off of it temporarily to reformat the drive.
I patched up the damage in the bathroom and I'm going to wash the TSP off the walls now. Then I'll cut out that gross silicone caulk job the other side of the tub. May or may not get to primering anything today though because I'm going to visit one of my friends tonight when they get off work. We'll see how the day goes.
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I see you're busy, busy, busy SIX!
Does your version of Windows have a file search function? I had to resort to that a lot enforcing the "filing system" on our server. If it does, try searching for "thumbs.db" or *.db (or something like that. It's been a while since I did that!)
One of these days I'm gonna have to purge and organize my files too. Right now it's a a bit of a jumble. I do have folders and subfolders (or directories and subdirectories if you prefer) but a lot of duplicate pix.
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Still busy at this end honchoing appointments and errands and regular housework, and doing yardwork in between. Have a breather today with only 3 errands to run, and since today is "clean out the frig" day, not much cooking.
I started chopping and binning up yesterday, but I got delayed so the day was pretty hot when I started, and only got about 20% done. Today and tomorrow are expected to be 87F, and Thurs 2 Dr appts for family, so it looks like indoor work for me.
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Does your version of Windows have a file search function? I had to resort to that a lot enforcing the "filing system" on our server. If it does, try searching for "thumbs.db" or *.db (or something like that. It's been a while since I did that!)
Yes. It does. I will be doing a search for thumbs.db after I get everything I'm going to sort through on that single large drive and I can do a restart on all my computers so there shouldn't be any file conflicts. It's just taking a LONG time to do that is all. I've sped it up here and there with that spare 250GB drive since transfer speeds on that are about 10 times what the network will do, but I've also noticed quite a bit of overlap as I was copying things over, so I've been using tools like Beyond Compare, Folder Match and WinSCP to thouroughly browse similar folders so I can delete what's not necessary. I'll be doing a lot of that still once everything is on one drive, but as I catch very large folders I'm doing them along the way.
What eventually ends up happening is that I have so many move and delete functions going on both PCs and over the network at one time that I have to step away from it because everything else is slowed to a crawl.
I've NEVER seen delete functions take this long before, but sometimes we're talking folders with over 1 million files in the sub-folders, so all of my drives are getting a workout this week.
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The sooner the better, but I'm fairly confident that your mess is much more manageable than the mess I've left for myself over the last 20 or so years.
I know what a chore that is, so I'm sure you'll get to it when you get to it. It's really a "Winter" job, but you don't really have a winter over where you live.
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Still busy at this end honchoing appointments and errands and regular housework, and doing yardwork in between. Have a breather today with only 3 errands to run, and since today is "clean out the frig" day, not much cooking.
I started chopping and binning up yesterday, but I got delayed so the day was pretty hot when I started, and only got about 20% done. Today and tomorrow are expected to be 87F, and Thurs 2 Dr appts for family, so it looks like indoor work for me.
Wow. You're getting a lot done too. I'm glad you're feeling well enough to keep up with it again.
Stay cool.
I just cut out all the silocone crap caulk job on the other side of the tub and cleaned it up. I figured if I was going to do both today, I'd better do that before I washed the TSP off the walls or I might give myself an excuse not to do the caulk again. I really hope that my crappy camera was able to snap some good pics of that caulk job so I can post them here and we can laugh at it.
Oh... and I have managed to clear a lot of space on my drives already. I finally got all my drives down to at least 10% free so I don't get warnings that I've got too much stuff on them anymore.
I've got most of my non-music/TV/Movies off of my streaming drive for the first time in over a year, so there's tons of free space left for the one thing that drive should be used for. And even though I've been moving tons of stuff to the 15TB drive, not only have I been deleting enough stuff to make room for all of it, but I've gone from only 2TB free to about 3.25TB free.
I'd guess that in the last 24 hours I've probably deleted about 3.5TB of outdated and/or redundant crap. My hope is that I can still delete another 3.5TB or more by the time I'm done, although I think I'm just about done
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Nice. Looks like my hardware store carries 3/8" quarter round. They don't have any 1/4", but I think that might risk being too thin for the job anyhow. 3/8" should cover any of the worst of the bad cuts on that vinyl plate thing in between the painted wall and and the vinyl walls of the bath.
Got a little worried when I saw their only product that thin was made of oak, but at that width Oak must not be too expensive because it's still less than $4.00 each. Unfortunately, they don't come pre-primed like the cheaper pine would have too, but it'll get the job done. They come in 8ft lengths, which is absolutely perfect. I'll probably have to cut less than 1/4" off an end to get it to fit.
Hopefully the crap camera I have shows this work and what it looked like before I did it. I have my doubts.
EDIT: Come to think of it, I may want to see if I can get 1/2" quarter round to use as a crown in the tub too. They did such a freakin' awful job with caulk and just cutting out that vinyl overall and the caulk job to the ceiling over the shower looks like absolute trash. Not something I'm going to worry about today, as that doesn't need to be done until after the rest of the bathroom is done, but if I can fix that it might talk me out of ripping down all those walls and tiling them one day. The vinyl walls themselves are pretty nice and easy to clean up if it weren't for the horrible job they did.
That's it for today. Time to clean up. Going to go to the store and get those pieces along with some spackle, wood filler and the oil rubbed bronze paint. Not ready to buy any electric yet since I still don't know what I'll need to finish the project, but if I get this stuff I should be able to get most of the job done outside of electric now.
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Well, this morning started out with me hopefully getting my RL paperwork straightened. Now, I just have to wait and see if it worked. Had to post a couple of things for it.
All other things done and having a sit down now. Weather can't decide if it want's to stay sunny or rain.
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Hope it's all good, Brenda.
We got one more warm and rainy day, then it cools off and should be dry for a few days so I can finally get my lawn mowed. It really needs it.
Although I don't feel too bad. They want to raise my property taxes to ridiculous levels, they can send the teachers over here to mow my lawn if they don't like it.
Got everything I needed at the hardware store. Turns out that even though I have about 30 buckets of paint and maybe 15 of those haven't even been opened yet, I didn't leave myself with a lot of primer when I checked out of doing work on the house a few years ago. I'm glad I thought to check that and didn't just assume that buried under more than a dozen buckets in either of the 2 spots that I keep the paint there was a fresh primer bucket waiting for me.
Nope. Just a bunch of paint that claims that it's "paint and primer in one", but if you believe that one I've got these 50 year shingles I can put up for ya and I'll be long dead before they start leaking on you in only 25.
Don't even ask my driveway how that 8 year blacktop is holding up.
And boy... am I glad I just took a chance and bought the 1/4"x1/4" pre-primed pine quarter round. I was obviously wrong about what I thought I saw on the webpage. If there was any 3/8" oak in that building, I didn't find it. Wasted a good 20 minutes looking for it too. Almost walked out without anything but figured I'd at least give the 1/2" stuff a shot. Boy am I happy I did that. There won't be as pronounced of a double-bevel effect with this stuff, but it didn't stick out as far as I thought it would. The thing it is going up against on the 90 degree to the wall is a thin, hollow vinyl "plate" that is not very thick at all, and it's rounded on both the right and left edge. I was worried that anything over 3/8" would be too wide and the flat back of the piece would stick out further than where the vinyl plate starts to curve in to the wall, and even with caulk that would just look almost as bad as the horrible caulk job I'm fixing with this stuff.
Unfortunately, I didn't pull the lights down yet or really try to get a good look behind the scenes, so I couldn't buy any electric today. I'm going to have to do some research on toilet heights anyhow before I figure that out. Everything as far as height going over the toilet needs to be based on me buying a LARGE toilet and still having enough room for the hand towels to hang above it.
So I need to figure out exactly how high that box needs to go before I can figure out where I want to put my electrical outlet inside of it.
I'm fairly certain that the only piece I would need to buy for any electric that I know I wouldn't have is a box that attaches to the drywall when there is no stud available. But I might luck out and have a stud right where I want to go with it too.
Maybe I'll give her a look tomorrow. I think for sure I'll get a coat of primer up if nothing else. Walls are all washed down and I already repaired the holes in the walls from various things that were screwed into them. And if I do that, I probably would put the first coat of paint up too for the hell of it. I've got a ton of that color and it's such a small room I'm not worried about running out of it.
Really though... I've got to get that electric figured out soon if for no reason other than to have a medicine cabinet with a mirror up there again. Until I get contact paper in those drawers, I don't want to be keeping things in there and I'm running back in and out of the small bedroom with half my stuff right now. I've got a little hand mirror balanced in the opening in the wall where the old cabinet used to be. And once I pull those lights down and put a pigtail up there, I'm not going to have much light in there until the job is done.
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Out soon with meds to get and a couple of other things.
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So do I SIX.
When will you know?
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Heya SIX, a zillion years ago, when I was replacing our toilets with low-flow, I got ADA compliant height, and I'm glad I did! Unless a bathroom is intended for children, higher toilets are so much easier on the knees!
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So do I SIX.
When will you know?
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I think I'll have to call them on Friday.
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Back and done for today. Warm out almost was sorry I was wearing my jacket out.
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Heya SIX, a zillion years ago, when I was replacing our toilets with low-flow, I got ADA compliant height, and I'm glad I did! Unless a bathroom is intended for children, higher toilets are so much easier on the knees!
Good tip.
I figured there were certain standards out there, I just hadn't looked into them yet. From the little bit I've read, it looks like the top of my toilet tank would be between 28" and 30". I'm going to look at some toilets specifically before I go with that.
If the cabinet height won't be an issue with the shelf/towel hanger under it to 30", that'll be great.
I haven't yet decided if I'm going to attach the two pieces at the bottom, which would give the cabinet a decorative look all around the bottom with the towel rod under it... or if I'm going to try hanging the toilet cab high enough so that the shelf could be used too.
I don't need the shelf really, since under the two cabinet doors there is already a decent sized opening with a shelf right above it, but it is such a small bathroom for a main bathroom that every little extra space to put stuff is probably more than welcome.
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Off to mah jong tomorrow then other stuff.
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Still plugging away at the data dehoard. It's going to get faster when I finally get everything over to the huge backup drive and it's all in one place. I've been trying to compare large things as I've been moving like stuff with like and getting them all closer together before doing the real purge, but that's pretty slow-going if I mess with it because I've got so many things moving around that the computer speed is simply too slow to keep up with what I'm trying to do.
All of those weird folder things disappeared when I had a moment to reboot everything. I knew all of them would except for that weird invisible folder that only showed up in one place and said I needed "permission from Everyone" to delete the folder. Turns out after a reboot that folder was just gone. That must have been what the strange error was about. Something so out of the ordinary that Windows threw out an incorrect error. Maybe it's something that was even buried in the code and not something anybody would regularly see unless the system got glitched?
I keep thinking that I'm deleting a lot, but 20GB here or there doesn't really put a dent in the free-space on a 15TB drive.
I know there's a ton I can still get rid of once it's all organized. Just have to be patient. My streaming drive which was almost full has about 3TB free, as it should be, now that I've removed everything that doesn't belong there. If I did all of this cleanup years ago I never would have needed to use that space... not that it harmed anything.
A lot of that free space was made by clogging up my work drive to the point where it's only got 800GB free again. I think I can get rid of a lot of that, and what remains is stuff I'm going to want to have backed up anyhow. But eventually I'll get that backed up a second time on the spare large drives and I should have a few TB free on the work drive too.
If I can do that and get down to about 4TB free on the huge drive, I'll be a pretty happy dude.
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SIX, if you're going to hoard anything, it may as well be bytes. I encourage dear daughter to give stuff away but take pix bc electrons are small! But good on you for dehoarding bc all that data doesn't help if you can't find it afterwards.
BRENDA, bon chance!
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Merci, SIG.
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Good morning at mah jong finished in 2nd place with over 6,000 points. I went out 4 times, had 3 hands with winds and dragons. Also had one hand with all 4 flowers. So, I was getting some really good hands then middle ones then a couple of crappy ones, like 20 and 40points. My first hand was over 1,000 points.
Did some shopping then got back and realized that I forgot something and since I didn't want to do it tomorrow. I went back out and got it.
Wore my jacket today and sorry again that I did. Having a sit down now.
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Off to work tomorrow.
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The couple that you work for sounds clueless. Hope she doesn't have you running up and down the stairs.
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Yeah... It's not exactly fun, but not nearly as bad as cleaning a hoarded house is.
I don't think it would have been possible at all if I didn't have that big drive. Even looking at everything on one drive is pretty slow going.
It's all on the one drive now finally. That took a few days and a lot more babysitting than I thought it might.
Doing pretty good on space though. The work computer has 2 external drives and now there's just shy of 5TB free between them. It's really actually closer to 6TB because I have the zipped/split archive and another large set of nested folders that are all essentially doubles, but stored in a way I'm not going to be storing things. I'm just waiting on it being verified as good before I delete any of that. I had less than 2TB free on these before.
Got the huge drive down to 2TB free now, which was right around what it had before I'd moved anything to it. Now I'm just hoping I can find 2 or 3 more TB to delete.
Not just to free up that space, but to have less to chose from when I'm deciding what's getting a 2nd and even a 3rd proper backup off of that. Yeah... a digital hoard in many ways is a lot better than a real life hoard, although if you look at all the old tech I still have to get rid of there can become some overlap there. Other people don't notice your problem with a digital hoard, but it's all up in your head like a real hoard is until you get rid of it.
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Nice. Not that it cleared up much space, but I did a search for thumbs.db after I had everything I could possibly think of put on that large drive and 1,451 were either already there or passed through after I'd missed them.
Interestingly, Windows 11 doesn't seem to care at all about them anymore. When deleting thumbs.db in Windows 10, you get an error for every one complaining it's a system file and something might break if you delete it. No such warning at all in Windows 11. You tell it to delete them and it just does.
If memory serves right, desktop.ini is another relic of Windows past that is probably littering parts of my tree. But unfortunately, I know for a fact that other things I've used have used files with that name for their own purposes, so doing a massive search/delete on them would be a bad idea, so unless I catch them specifically they're going to stay.
Nice to get those off, and even nicer knowing that they don't exist at all in any of the Program and the Build. I'd hate knowing that I was spreading these useless but still POS files to other people's systems, but I'm also not about to re-do the entire build and lose about 10 days worth of work and babysitting transfers just for that. There would have to be some MAJOR problems pointed out to me before I ever did that.
Finally got a look at those Kindles the other day. Turns out I only had 5 and my old tablet that has seen some better days was with them.
I figured out which was the newest and the best, which didn't even take research to figure out since the differences in storage space alone speak volumes on that one. Battery life in all but two of them seem to be great. The two oldest units have some problems with battery life though. I'd gotten them all to 100% and left them on with the screens off for 4 days before I finally got to them. The 3 newest ones were at 89% or higher. One of the two matching oldest ones was only at 50% and the final was at a very low 19%. This was without any use at all, and just leaving them on. It's possible that these two were so old that they didn't have as good of batteries as the newer ones and/or they weren't made with extended lifetime as a priority back then, so that 50% might be a feature and it's only the 19% one that I should pitch.
I've already put together one for my friend. He's not a huge reader, but I know what his favorite book is, and that's on there. I also put some books about bands he likes on it, as well as some other books I'd thought he might be interested and a few of my favorite books. I even found some collections of images of trading cards and magazines we liked when we were kids and put them in PDF files so I could get them readable on the Kindle too as a bonus. That will be a nice little gift.
I've got 3 good ones, and those are for me. One was from my old man and was one of those older black and white kindles. Pretty basic and not a ton of storage space, but it is unarguably easier on the eyes than the colored ones. My biggest problem with it is that he gave it to me with a ton of his books loaded up on it, and I can't transfer 1/3rd of them anywhere else since they were from the Amazon store and come with copyright protection I'm not interested in enough to learn how to break since I'm sure they could all be replaced for free anyhow if I felt like it. If I actually want to read those, I've got to keep that unit and read them before the battery goes. The best one I got when my friend's father-in-law passed and I got that fridge. Nobody there wanted it, and it's by far the newest one. The 3rd one is fairly new, but I'm using that in tandem with my project and I'll never actually read any books off of it.
I was going to give the other one to my aunt, but if that battery is shot there's no point in it. Oh well... When I'd asked her if she wanted one quite a while back, she didn't seem that enthused about it. I don&#
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She is clueless.
Here's another example of stupid things they have said.
She put on some classical music from Spotify or something like that. She asked me who I thought the composer was after listening I said, "Mozart." She had to look it up and she said, "You're right. You do know a lot of stuff."
I of course was totally stunned when she said it. Don't know why. Guess I wasn't expecting it. They just blow my mind sometimes.
I was running up and down the basement stairs. Almost tripped once and when I got to the top had to ask her to take one thing from me before I dropped it. She did it though. I usually bring things up one at a time but I thought since they were small but nope. Oh well.
They are also redoing the kitchen again some. The husband decided that they needed some more cabinets in the kitchen. Fine. But not that stupid white on a plain wood wall. Ugh! I'm not even sure that will work. They are also going to install a dishwasher which I haven't decided if that is a good idea or not.
Mind they are having people staying with them. They are hooked up with this mennonite group.
Still haven't made up my mind on that.
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Out in a bit. Need or what to do a couple of things. Nothing too heavy.
Got back after 4pm yesterday and stopped at a fast food place to get something for supper. Was too tired to do anything except the basics.
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All done for today. Forgot about a parade going through my city and couldn't cross the street to get to another store. Oh well. Will do on Monday.
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Uggggghhhhh.....
Man am I getting burnt out on file maintenance here...
It wouldn't be so bad if Windows wasn't ass at handling files over a network for anything more intensive than streaming. What a slow, glitchy shitshow it is. I just really don't want to remove the large drive from its home. I don't really want to touch that damn thing at all for any reason if at all possible. It won't be as valuable once everything is organized and all the most important stuff is backed up, but right now moving that thing could end up in disaster.
I'm doing well though, despite the hoops.
2.99TB free on the 5TB streaming drive.
1.84TB free on the 5TB work drive. (With over 750GB on-deck to delete once verification is made offsite)
2.25TB free on the 15TB drive.
I was actually making more progress than that on the 15TB drive, but I decided since I now had plenty of free space there it was time to start making my official backups on it. Before then, I had gotten it down to nearly 3TB free. At least 4TB of it is my official backups already, so I'm really only looking at about 8TB worth of stuff to organize and purge.
I think because of the downtime, I'm going to start taking out my two 2TB drives that had out of date backups and see what I'm working with on those. Chances are that everything on both of them can now be deleted, but I do want to make absolutely sure of that before I do it.
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What's with the drive that you have to be so careful about moving it? Is it pulling a lot of errors?
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The couple that you work for sounds clueless. Hope she doesn't have you running up and down the stairs.
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She is clueless.
Here's another example of stupid things they have said.
She put on some classical music from Spotify or something like that. She asked me who I thought the composer was after listening I said, "Mozart." She had to look it up and she said, "You're right. You do know a lot of stuff."
I of course was totally stunned when she said it. Don't know why. Guess I wasn't expecting it. They just blow my mind sometimes.
I was running up and down the basement stairs. Almost tripped once and when I got to the top had to ask her to take one thing from me before I dropped it. She did it though. I usually bring things up one at a time but I thought since they were small but nope. Oh well.
They are also redoing the kitchen again some. The husband decided that they needed some more cabinets in the kitchen. Fine. But not that stupid white on a plain wood wall. Ugh! I'm not even sure that will work. They are also going to install a dishwasher which I haven't decided if that is a good idea or not.
Mind they are having people staying with them. They are hooked up with this mennonite group.
Still haven't made up my mind on that.
But from what she sounds like, I'd probably have a hard time making more than polite conversation with her.
Was there was some sort of family connection between yours and theirs? You mentioned that you were there when you were little and corrected their boy on something.
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What's with the drive that you have to be so careful about moving it? Is it pulling a lot of errors?
No. No errors. Although I did make it get close to overheating about a week ago, but it seems like it's fine and it's just the crap Windows network that is the bottleneck here. Any time I've tried to read stuff directly off the drive it works and it's very fast. Opening things from across the network is spotty though. They all eventually load, but no matter what I'm doing everything will randomly sieze up until Windows fixes whatever was bothering it while doing this work. Like it literally freezes up everything on my remote computer that has anything to do currently with the file system on my local or the remote drive until it's done. Other programs like Firefox playing YouTube videos aren't effected when this happens.
My concern is that it's 15TB and it's a 3.5" old school HDD with loads of platters and moving parts. It's the only drive I still own outside of a computer case that needs its own separate power supply. All my other externals are 2.5" drives that are powered by the USB port.
Not joking when I say I never want to move it from its current resting place. I treat that drive like it's one of the most fragile things I own.
The problem, physically, is that this PC with the large drive attached is part of my collection of tech that's on my TV stand under the TV. It's not a computer that has really ever been for "computing", although it does get plenty of use for other things after I got it all set up. But it really wasn't designed with using Windows in mind, even though I thankfully set up a Windows partition on it so I COULD use it for that if necessary.
But the TV isn't very big and is pretty low, and there's no good way to sit there and work on it unless I want to sit cross-legged on the hardwood floor for hours, which isn't something I'm really keen on doing.
I think that going through the other two 2TB drives was the right move at the moment.
I've managed to get the first of them down to only about 500GB already.
The rest on that drive is a collection of untouched stuff I had backed up that I was concerned I may have deleted too quickly from the 15TB drive, so I'm going to just directly copy all that over for now and compare it to what is there now. A lot of it will be duplicates that can just be deleted, but it's got to be sorted through.
Not sure what to expect from the final 2TB drive. Hopefully that can all just be deleted without thinking about it.
Although...
There is one more thing that I'm a little concerned that I may have deleted too quickly that I'm guessing is also backed up there, so maybe another 500GB or so from the second 2TB backup drive might actually be copied over and sorted through as well.
...
It's really a funny thing... I document everything, but I didn't bother documenting my efforts so far at purging unnecessary data as I've been going. I'd LOVE to think that I haven't made a mistake so far, but when I see something is missing and I can't recall why I would have removed it when I did, I start second-guessing myself.
It shouldn't surprise me though. Now that we're adding another 4TB to the mix, we're talking 34+ TB of storage that was close to full before I did anything with it.
If this was just movies or tv shows or something, that wouldn't be a big deal, but we're talking files in the millions in total.
I know a lot will have been deleted by the time I do it, but when I have some downtime and I know it won't be slowing down other stuff, I should do a properties check on that drive and see just how many files are there right now. I'm sure it's a crazy amount. Easily over a million files still. I'm just wondering if we break 2 Million, by how man
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Hmmmm...
Didn't find what I was looking for on that last drive either.
Not really worried about it. It is objectively something that was old and not necessary anymore. I mentioned I had that old tech that I still could make use of and make things to give away. They should probably all be up-to-date enough to be usable as is, even if they weren't fully optimized. And I don't even know how much of that stuff even works anymore anyhow. I know a few of them were broke for sure, and I'd thought about trying to diagnose them and possibly cannibalize parts from one to make at least some of them work if a good deal of them are broken.
I dunno. I can't really bring myself to care too much about it now. Nostalgia is the only thing that would make me worry about it. It certainly wouldn't be logical for me to care about it anymore.
Good news is that the other spare drive was 5TB and not only 2TB like the first one. That's huge...
If I can narrow down the stuff that I need to be backed up to only 5TB on that 15TB drive, I'll have a 5TB and a 2TB drive to play with. I can probably have all my stuff backed up the way I'd like, make that 2TB drive my "Work Drive" and be able to do something really cool with that 5TB drive.
Gamechanger there, without needing to drop another $100-$125 like I thought I'd be doing soon.
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Today was my day for cutting and trimming.
Pruned the roses, again. I'm trying to remove the downward/ forward growing canes over time, so I can do some gardening in front of them. It wasn't really hot, but I was sweating like crazy and wound up hypovolemic and exhausted.
Washed the dog and trimmed her nails.
Trimmed hubby's hair and beard.
Trimmed and cut a bunch of beef chuck for beef- vegetable soup.
I delegated dear daughter to peel and slice some carrots and and a potato. I have some boxed broth, leftover marinara, and celery and green beans for the soup once the meat is cooked. But right now I'm flopped on the sofa recouping.
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So most of your drives are SSD, SIX? Somehow I kept picturing HDDs all stacked up somewhere.
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The couple that you work for sounds clueless. Hope she doesn't have you running up and down the stairs.
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She is clueless.
Here's another example of stupid things they have said.
She put on some classical music from Spotify or something like that. She asked me who I thought the composer was after listening I said, "Mozart." She had to look it up and she said, "You're right. You do know a lot of stuff."
I of course was totally stunned when she said it. Don't know why. Guess I wasn't expecting it. They just blow my mind sometimes.
I was running up and down the basement stairs. Almost tripped once and when I got to the top had to ask her to take one thing from me before I dropped it. She did it though. I usually bring things up one at a time but I thought since they were small but nope. Oh well.
They are also redoing the kitchen again some. The husband decided that they needed some more cabinets in the kitchen. Fine. But not that stupid white on a plain wood wall. Ugh! I'm not even sure that will work. They are also going to install a dishwasher which I haven't decided if that is a good idea or not.
Mind they are having people staying with them. They are hooked up with this mennonite group.
Still haven't made up my mind on that.
But from what she sounds like, I'd probably have a hard time making more than polite conversation with her.
Was there was some sort of family connection between yours and theirs? You mentioned that you were there when you were little and corrected their boy on something.
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She is and sometimes her husband isn't far behind. It is hard to make conversation with them at times. And I do mean them. There are times when I don't want to talk to them about any subject because I think on a subconscious level I know that somewhere along the line religion will come into it. And by now they should know how I feel on that subject.
My mum was friends with the lady who used to own the house and my boss's husband was a friend of her son's. He, my boss's husband came up to Canada as a draft dodger. He stayed with them. I would have been around 2 or so when I first met both of them. I know it sounds complicated but its not really. You know how it goes. Friends of friends and children's friends type thing.
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So most of your drives are SSD, SIX? Somehow I kept picturing HDDs all stacked up somewhere.
No... Actually, you're not wrong.
Most of my drives inside of computers are HDDs. (And because I did keep those 10 160GB drives for possible future use, some of them technically are sitting in a stack now :laugh).
Except for a few 500GB or below laptop or old desktop drives that I put in cheap plastic enclosures that are SSD, the other 2.5" externals are all HDDs too. But I don't feel nearly as worried moving them around from place to place because all you need to do is eject them, then move them to another computer by just putting the USB data/power cable into the other computer.
None of my drives inside of the computers are big though. All ranging from maybe 250GB to 1TB or maybe there's a 2TB in there somewhere. Once these old beasts start dying, I'm going to remedy that. When they get replaced with newer computers, all that data can be put on faster, smaller drives.
They're all relatively quiet... That 15TB 3.5" drive is an oldschool beast though. It's LOUD, especially when writing to it. That's not a bug. It's a feature. It behaves exactly as an 80GB HDD did 20 years ago, but it's rocking 15TB.
Like I said, it's the only drive of that physical size that isn't inside of a computer, and it comes with an electrical plug you need to put in the wall or a power strip for additional power to make it run. Moving that is a production, and even after I spent that time wrapping up all the cables nicely, I don't feel like messing with it.
Finding out that one backup drive was 5TB though... that's the highlight of the week outside of finishing that vanity. I'm in the process of cloning my 500GB drive that I used for my project to the 5TB. After that, I'm going to expand the partition from 512GB to the full size of that 5TB drive and I should be able to back up the entirity of my project with it, but the entire 5TB drive will now be a working prototype of the entire project build on its own as well. Before, I had been using the 500GB drive as the base, and pointing it to a lot of stuff on that 15TB drive that I haven't yet backed up anywhere else.
There is a possiblity that I'll still choose to use a 500GB SSD drive as my primary use for this thing like I always have been... I'll have to see if using a 5TB HDD effects the performance at all. I think the only possible negative impact would be the initial boot up time, but this is all Linux based and is much better about that than Windows boots go. I really think my bottleneck here when I have any performance issues for a very small percentage of things is my crappy old computers and the drive speed probably doesn't matter since I don't see a point in time where after the system is loaded anything being used wouldn't fit into the active memory.
But if it turns out that loading everything from the HDD instead of the SSD is a problem, that's fine. I'll still have everything backed up again and it will be another completely usable backup instead of just another 5TB drive of files that I tuck away and don't look at for anther 7 to 10 years.
I'm really hoping everything works on the single 5TB drive without any performance issues though. If that's the case, that will severely curb the usage of the 15TB drive over a long period of time and probably add years to its life as a solid backup that I don't need to access very often.
I've decided I'm still going to use the 5TB "work drive" as my work drive after all, but it will also be used for backing up anything that I would ever actively be working on, and that 2tb drive should be enough to backup other things that are of lesser importance or would not likely need to be accessed very much.
This is going to work out great.
And if the HDD works out performance-wise, I'l
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There is a possiblity that I'll still choose to use a 500GB SSD drive as my primary use for this thing like I always have been... I'll have to see if using a 5TB HDD effects the performance at all. I think the only possible negative impact would be the initial boot up time, but this is all Linux based and is much better about that than Windows boots go. I really think my bottleneck here when I have any performance issues for a very small percentage of things is my crappy old computers and the drive speed probably doesn't matter since I don't see a point in time where after the system is loaded anything being used wouldn't fit into the active memory.
But if it turns out that loading everything from the HDD instead of the SSD is a problem, that's fine. I'll still have everything backed up again and it will be another completely usable backup instead of just another 5TB drive of files that I tuck away and don't look at for anther 7 to 10 years.
I'm really hoping everything works on the single 5TB drive without any performance issues though. If that's the case, that will severely curb the usage of the 15TB drive over a long period of time and probably add years to its life as a solid backup that I don't need to access very often.
Although... come to think of it, I could just have both the 15TB and the 5TB drives attached all the time along with the 500GB SSD, and I could just launch with the SSD and point it to the 5TB for everything it needs instead of the 15TB. That way, the only time the 15TB drive ever needs to be accessed is for rare things, like if I were to get back into this project one day and I want to access things that aren't in the project. Or if my streaming drive died and I wanted to copy over all the stuff I've backed up on it.
And chances are, after I've figured out how to optimally backup everything, all of that stuff I didn't use is probably going to be backed up on that 2TB drive, so I could access it all much quicker by just taking the 2TB drive out of easily accessible storage from my curio cabinet drawer and plugging it directly into my computer. The only time I'd probably ever need the 15TB again would be to backup additions to the streaming drive or to use those backups to create a new one if my streaming drive ever crapped out on me.
That will be nice. Because using the drive itself is a production. It goes into "sleep" mode after a certain amount of idle time. You might not notice that change... the sound that it makes when it is idling or doing minimal tasks, vs sudden absence of noise when it falls asleep. But boy, do you notice the noise it makes when you wake it from its slumber.
It only occurs to me now how nice it will be not ever having to listen to that anymore as a regular part of my day.
Man...
It's kind of crazy the things you just learn to put up with that you don't need to put up with...
Making your space work for you is just as important with your tech as it is in real life.
I think in the back of my head I always knew I had all of these possible, potential extra tools at my disposal without the need to go out and buy more shit.
I've just sat on it all for so long and never tackled all of these projects.
There's definitely a reason for that. Doing this stuff isn't easy, and it's very time consuming. Staying on task is HARD... and if you don't finish it, you lose your place and forget what you've already done.
I'm almost there now though.
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A shower, a bowl of beef vegetable soup, a comfy place to lie down.
Aaaahhh.
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Just in case you didn't get it the first two times!
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Just a slow Sunday around me. Nothing stress full as I am still feeling Friday in my back.
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Well, my hair dryer just died today. I managed to get half of my hair dry. Though it did pretty good for something that had been packed away in a box for a good number of years before I could get to it. It seems that my hair dryer was just over heated but will have a look for a new one.
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I've never had a hair dryer break and it's nothing I've ever seen somebody else say happened to them before. We can't even make a proper hair dryer without a built-in shelf life anymore, huh? Makes me think that the 25 year old hair dryer I have shouldn't be in my crawl space in case my pipes freeze. Who knows? Maybe I grow my hair out one last time.
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Nice...
Wasn't planning on doing anything with it today, but all of the sudden I got the itch to do something with the bathroom again and I got it all primered. It looks like that BS caulk job they did was at least a silicone composite that you can paint over. I've run into silicone that is impossible to paint on. I'm sure this stuff was white at some time, but it was all yellow now. This is the stuff at the very top of the vinyl walls where it should meet the ceiling but doesn't because they were not good at the work they were doing. I went ahead and hit that with 2 coats of primer as I went along. The difference just doing that is night and day.
Bathrooms are funny because of just how much cutting in and weird angles you end up doing when painting compared to any other room in your house. It's essentially 95% of the cut in and 100% of the corners, but in a room 1/10th the size of any of the others. It just always seems like painting will be a super quick job because of how small the room is, but it doesn't really work out that way. I'd say it's pretty frustrating how much paint you waste with rolling so little surface area and everything that gets washed down the drain no matter how well you think you did reclaiming the paint with your 5-in-1 tool. Especially when you've got one color that might not make it to the end of the job.
I decided to caulk the window and the interior of the door frame while I was at it, and then I used my wood filler to fill in some rather large gaps on either side of the window to the miniature jambs they put in that were more than 1/4" short of doing the job at the worst parts toward the bottom.
The rest of the electric in there was just beyond crazy. The two wires going up went into one of about a dozen holes they just haphazardly drilled into the wall until they got one they apparently felt okay with just shoving those two wires through. No box, no nothing. At least the wires weren't bare copper. That's the only positive I can say about that job.
That will add a few more bucks to the job. I'm already putting a box where you can reach it inside the hole for the medicine cabinet to join the existing flex conduit to. Now I'll have to get a 2nd box that attaches to drywall for up there once I know exactly where the vanity light is going. I won't hard pipe anything, but nothing I do is anything less than flex pipe. I believe that Romex might be legal even in your house in these parts, but one thing I don't play around with when it comes to code is electric and I'll always go as close to the Illinois standards as possible. I've torn down quite a few walls in this house to put electric in properly before, but I just don't have that in me to be busting out 2 walls just to put in some hard pipe anymore. Those days are over. It won't be perfect, but it will be well beyond my local code requirements and most importantly it will be SAFE.
Just a single coat of primer and the room looks 100 times better than it did before. Those walls were gross, stained and unwashable since the day I moved in.
I think I'll paint the ceiling now and then hit one coat of paint on the walls, making sure to cut in twice along the edges where I cut out all that terrible caulk so I can install those quarter round pieces as soon as they're painted and ready. Once those are up, painting that wall without getting it where I don't want it to go will be nearly impossible since it will be so close to the door on one end and the window on the other.
I think I'm going to paint one coat of the lighter color on the window wall that I intend on painting with the darker color on the vanity and the cabinets. That's the color that I'm running out of, and I still have probably 20sq/ft on the wall to paint twice as well as the entire medicine cabinet inside and out 3 times. Maybe if I put a coat or two of the lighter stuff up first I can go a bit thinner than I usually do with the
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I've never had a hair dryer break and it's nothing I've ever seen somebody else say happened to them before. We can't even make a proper hair dryer without a built-in shelf life anymore, huh? Makes me think that the 25 year old hair dryer I have shouldn't be in my crawl space in case my pipes freeze. Who knows? Maybe I grow my hair out one last time.
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Well, given the length of my hair, a dryer is needed. When I was a kid they used to last longer for sure. But now nothing really does.
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Out soon in the rain to do things I was too tired to do on Friday.
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Sounds like your bathroom is coming along nicely, SIX! It must be something of a relief when you first walk in and see how much better it looks than before!
BRENDA, I wish that you had gotten tired doing something more rewarding. When you recover, plan on doing something satisfying.
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I'm sure you know how this goes SIX. I go out to do yardwork with something specific in mind, but I start doing something else that I say I'm going to do "just a little" and I get a bug about it and can't stop until it's either done or I'm exhausted.
So yesterday I was going to chop up and bin up all the trimmings and palm fronds, and wound up pulling all the dead wands from the rose bushes until it was done.
At least I did start deep watering the avocados.
Today I'm going to pull down the passionflower vine (alas, fruit not edible) that's completely taken over a big camellia and part of an avocado tree.
I guess at some point I'm going to have to bin up all the current trimmings.
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Haha...
Yeah. I hear ya, Sigs. Sometimes I think I should stop writing about what I plan on doing because those are liable to change so easily.
Sounds like you're making good progress as well.
I remember why I lost interest in working on the bathroom, but wish I had just done one little thing every day instead of always cramming everything in all at once. There are a lot of little steps. Most of them need to be done in order and there is a certain amount of drying time in between.
The ceiling is cut in twice really good, but even after two coats with the roller I'm going to want to do a 3rd coat. I don't know if that's because I used a thin roller or because the ceiling just really needed all that paint. For walls that have already been painted, they have seemed to suck up a bit more paint than I'm used to seeing.
The good news is that I only have to roll it once more and I don't need to cut it again. I should be fine getting wall paint up shortly.
But then I realized that even though I had just put wood filler on this morning and I'm going to have to wait at least until tomorrow to shape that, I still needed to paint my window first, before the walls could be painted. Cutting into the window is easy. Cutting the window into the wall is harder than cutting the ceiling into the wall. So I've got to put 2 coats on everything outside and on the face of the window and let that dry good before I do any wall paint.
I remember about a week ago I was excited about possibly having the first coat of wall paint up by the end of that day. I was nowhere near ready for that. And then I got my mind on other things for a week or so and came back to it and did it to myself again.
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I will have a think SIG.
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All done for today and to quote Mr. Miyagi - rain on, rain off.
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Finally got that first coat of paint up.
I'm on the fence right now about doing the window wall darker now. I think the white tub already does what the accent wall would have accomplished. And the white window/door trim and door really pop with that grey color behind it, where the difference between the vanity and cabinets will be quite a bit more subtle.
I think I thought those two colors were further apart on the spectrum than they are, like down on the first floor, but now that I am starting to see it all together, the difference isn't all that great. I'm going to put up another coat today despite the work that still needs to be done and make a decision when it dries. If I'm good with it, I could put those quarter rounds up very soon.
Maybe I'll wait until I see everything in the sunlight tomorrow morning. After noon, the sun is on the other side of the house. There's still natural light, but it's not even close to the mornings.
I think my ceiling was fine with two coats. It looks great now. I think the "dark" spots I was seeing was paint that just hadn't dried yet. It's a very hot and humid day outside today and I didn't have the A/C on until just recently.
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Ooohhh.... Two coats are up now and I'm about 99% sure I'm just staying with that color for all 3 walls.
You've got to see these crazy cuts I had to make in between those vinyl shower edger plate things and the window/door trim. Basically, it was the width of the narrow end of the brush plus 1/4"... and that might be generous. It was TIGHT. I had to get all my paint on the side of the brush that would be up against the vinyl since I will be capping those off with the quarter round. I still couldn't be sloppy, but in order to cut into the trim it was the only way it could be done. Nobody will ever be able to paint that wall again unless they do the trim the same color as the wall or they rip it out.
Might be getting a little late to snap any decent pictures. I'll see what I can do.
Might get those trim pieces up and the bottom piece of trim up under the windowsill tonight yet. Gotta be sure I'm not changing the one wall color though because I'm not putting 2 of those 3 pieces up until I know for sure.
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Would love to see pix, SIX!
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Well, I did manage to stick with pulling down the passionflower vines (There were more than a few!)
I had just about given up on the ones out of reach of my long- handled Japanese hoe when I remembered that I have a REALLY long avocado picker!
Not sure what I'm gonna do tomorrow.
Maybe catch the rest of the palms that I uncovered.
Or move some decorative rocks out of the way so I can call a professional tree trimmer. Or rake and bin up a bunch of trimmings and dead grasses.
There's something everywhere I look.
Hmm... Needs some thought.
But at least I finished deep watering the avocado trees.
And looking forward to those cosmos seedlings growing up and flowering to complement the nasturtiums, borage and morning glories in my " meadow".
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Would love to see pix, SIX!
I don't aim to disappoint.
These first few I'm going to try to explain, but they aren't the greatest quality and I really need to find a working camera that does better than this garbage.
This first one I think you'll see pretty easy. It's the window on the right and the shower on the left. This was after I'd cut out all the nasty caulk on that side and I hadn't yet figured out how I was going to finish that off. (That vinyl thing in between the shower and window is what I'm calling the vinyl plate).
2nd picture of that, but further down. Just showing off their AWESOME cut job on that vinyl. Real professional stuff.
These next two, I don't know... It's two shots of the awful calk job on the other side before I'd gotten to taking it all down. I'm not really sure if you can make that out, and I'm certain that you're not seeing at all how bad it really was if you can.
More fun electric! That's it buddy. Just keep drilling holes until one of them feels good for ya!
That's what was above this...
Caulk removed and everything primed and painted twice, ready for my quarter round.
BOOM-SHAKA-LAKA!
And as nice as that trim looks, did you catch that cut-in job on the ceiling. I don't know what happened, but I think that I might have done my best cut-in of my life today. And usually they're not half bad.
And now this wall is done except for the toilet paper dispenser, and the baseboard after I repair the sub-floor and get new tile down.
You probably can't tell from that angle, but I've got the wood putty up there on the sides where there were gaps far too big for caulk to do the job. I said earlier I had to paint the outside and face of the window trim before I could paint the walls and cut in to the window, but none of that was close to dry. I'm going to have to still sand that down, probably do some additional repairs and then finally paint the rest of the window.
I thought this one was pretty cool. You don't get this effect all day, but during the last 2 hours or so of daylight, the walls look different colors from outside the room. The funny thing is that if I painted that window wall with the slightly darker paint, I think they'd probably be matching while that effect was going on in the evening.
Heh... I just noticed I put those last two out of order. Didn't have the last piece of the window trim at the bottom until the end of the day.
Really nice to finally get all the trim up.
The first thing I have to do before anything else now is mow my lawn. Once I get that done, I can get back to sanding a few things and even cleaning off any of the old hardware that is going to get the oil-rubbed bronze treatment. It's nice to know that I've already finished enough of this stuff that when I sand the rest of it I'll have plenty of room on my horses to paint them in my basement without having to move a bunch of stuff around. We're all ready for that.
Once I get that electric figured out I can finally get cabinets up and go back to normal life.
Oh right... and I got another real good look at the over-the toilet cabinet today. In my mind I imagined the nook under the doors to be quite a bit shorter than it actually is. That's going to be GREAT when I have it hung with electric in the box. It's tall enough where people can put electric toothbrushes and beard trimmers standing upward, and not laid on the side like I used to keep mine
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Yanno.... I wonder about that cutting in today.
It wasn't the best job I've ever done because my eyesight got any better. Quite the contrary after the diabetes. I can still read and get around, but I know I need a new script. Looking at the lines too hard like I would have before makes my eyes bug out now.
I think what happened, is that I just let go and trusted myself. It was faster than normal, and it was really smooth and super tight to that inside angle despite not taking time to sand down any prior defects in the corners like I usually do.
Back in the day it was painfully slow and I was hyper-focused on that. Today it was like "okay. you got the line. good. let 'er rip!".
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Of course... Knew I'd run into a snag eventually today. It was just too good to be true overall, even with the reveal of the even more scary electric.
If everything works, which remains to be seen, all the moving is done. The only other moves I'll be making is final backups on the last 2TB drive when I know what deserves that prime real estate that will be tucked away safely in a box. I still have more dehoarding and reorg to do before backups are finished, but I had to move on to a few other things and I was killing it with the house work.
So I had that idea that I'd run the system off the fast but small SSD and then use the large drive for the stuff that doesn't need to be stored on the system drive.
If this was all a Windows network, no problem. Would have been set up an hour ago...
But of course, it's Linux. *blah* Everything is always an ordeal with Linux.
Both of my drives have the same name, because of the clone process. Changing this name in Windows doesn't do anything but confuse the system and if I try loading either disk after changing its windows name then it just hangs on a black screen after the BIOS is finished. But if I don't change the names, it automatically loads the big drive every time. And because of this name conflict, the BIOS won't even properly recognize the smaller drive at all and instead of saying the make and model in the boot select / setup menus, it just shows a generic "USB Drive" that you are unable to force a boot from.
I think I'm going to have to go into terminal with raised privileges to fix this, which means I'm probably not going to do it tonight.
EDIT: Ah... duh.
Just re-reading the post and I think I've got the answer. I'll just rename the big drive in Windows so it's not recognized in the boot and I should be able to force the automatic boot of the small SSD.
It's not the proper solution, but if it works and I don't have to spend 2 hours messing around in Terminal it's good enough for me.
EDIT 2: Nope...
Nice try, but it doesn't resolve the underlying issue. What happens now is that I'll randomly be able to start the PC up and everything works. Then I'll restart and nothing is working. I suspect this behavior is because renaming the drive in Windows is still making things wonky, and instead of loading the other two externals in the same order with the same designations on every boot, I think they're being switched up between boots.
And if that's not what is happening, I don't have any other ideas right now.
Guess I'm going to have to mess with terminal to get this done. What a drag.
EDIT 3: Nope...
Not a terminal thing either. The rename in Windows is just fine and is seen in Linux as well. I believe I've narrowed it down to a BIOS issue. It's 12 years old now. I was trying to make it do something that it obviously isn't capable of doing, which is loading more than 2 external drives in any consistent fashion.
I can have any combination of 2 of the 3 drives hooked up and I have complete control over them and how they load. But if I put the 3rd one in the mix, the second two externals after the boot drive is selected are loaded up in a random order. When I'm relying on a good deal of Symbolic Links that are pointing to specific locations on only one of those drives, it does me no good if half the time I boot up the PC it's all pointing to the wrong drive.
There's probably some sort of software solution out there that handles this all post-boot sequence, but I'm such a novice at Linux I think it would take me a long time to even find it, let alone implement it. I think for now I'm going to settle for my backup solution on this one and maybe I'll revisit it down the road. I'm pretty sure that if I got a computer made in at least 2020 this wouldn't even be an issue, so I'm not worried about it.
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I think hubby ran into that.,I'll ask him.
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Out soon on a day that can't make up its mind weather wise. Couple of things to do.
Email from my friend. She was really nervous as he BP decided to go high. Luckily a nurse had come in to check on her husband. Think she asked the nurse to check her BP. She told the nurse she is normally low but not yesterday afternoon. Nurse told her to take a couple of aspirin and go to her doctor. She has doctor's appointment. Will check my email before I leave.
Also had a incident on my floor last night. Heard arguing and a dog barking around 8 or so. It must have still been going on because around 10pm, heard a knock on my door and I opened. There were 4 cops standing in the hallway. Said there was an incident and to shelter in place. Did that at around 11pm, cops came back but I didn't open the door. I did hear the same cop as before and it was the all clear.
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I think hubby ran into that.,I'll ask him.
Thanks. If he's got an ideas, that'd be great. But if you read to the end, I don't believe it's a linux issue at all and it's my old BIOS that's causing the problem here.
I've seen similar issues being brought up on Reddit regarding Linux and it sounds like it's known that drives outside of the boot drive could be recognized randomly and given a different designation every boot.
I'm guessing that this might even be happening in Windows on that computer with the 3 drives installed as well. I would just never notice it is all. Yesterday was the first time I've ever tried loading 3 drives on that computer at the same time. If Windows is switching up the load up of the 2 drives, the only difference to me would be different drive letters because I'm not using any reliance on links in Windows.
It's only a negative impact in Linux where I need to have that 2nd drive with the Symbolic Links loading up before the 15TB drive does every time, otherwise some of the times I load it, it will error out saying that no data is available and it gets stuck in a loop until I reboot. After a reboot, it may or may not load up right. If it loads, great. If not, I have to just reboot over and over again until it does.
One thing that got me really thinking it's the BIOS is that it seems rather confused. When I ask it to list out the drives attached, instead of recognizing I have a 500GB, 5TB and 15TB drive, it only recognizes the 500GB, and then it recognizes the 5TB twice, but only says that they are 2.19TB capacity each. It doesn't even show the 15TB drive.
But when I load them in Windows or when Linux loads them correctly they all show up right and work properly.
Just another example of weird jenk on my end when I'm rocking all of this low tech, probably.
But if your husband has any ideas I'm happy to try them.
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I've done some testing and so far the only real negative impact of not being able to launch with that SSD is about 15-30 seconds extra on the initial boot. I'm pretty sure after that point that the RAM is what's doing all the heavy lifting. Even on things that require heavy CPU utilization. In those cases, there is probably also some slowdown while things are loaded into memory from the HDD, but I was already loading that stuff off the 15TB HDD with Symlinks, so I wouldn't notice any difference there.
I haven't come across any other notable problems with it yet, although doing any real testing would require me to just use it regularly and see if any problems pop up. It would be impossible for me to really test it thoroughly any other way. I think it will be fine. Would be nice to load with the SSD, but since I want that 15TB drive always hooked up and I've got that 12 year old BIOS, I don't think I'm going to be able to boot with all 3 in a way that's usesful for me. Oh well.
Ideally, I'd have a 6TB SSD drive, but I don't believe that Jack has $650 in the budget for one of those right now.
It's possible I won't need that 15TB drive hooked up all the time after I'm done with the moves and backups. I'd just have to be clever on how I did everything to ensure it wouldn't need to be used very often.
But doing that is still kind of a pain in the ass because every time I would need it, I'd have to get up and plug it in and then remember to eject it when I was done otherwise next time I boot there would be problems again.
This idea sounds OK, but I wouldn't have a way to backup new things or changes on the fly and what would likely happen is I'd look at it again in another 7 years and see that everything is a mess. It would be so much nicer if this all just worked together.
So far I've got my project, my magazines, books, calibre libraries, music, movies, TV shows and games all backed up twice. I've also got a 70GB folder of documents and photos that I'm sure as heck not sorting through that's just backed up twice.
Most of what's left is potential project stuff that didn't make it into the project yet, backup images of various computers of my own and those I've built for other people, a various collection of good programs I've collected over the years, and several huge folders of old project work in various states that I have to decide what I'm going to do with.
Because I'm making so many of my backups "working" things, I'm able to utilize the space on my regularly used drives for backups, instead of having 2 or 3 of them just sitting in boxes for years.
I'm pretty sure that I'll be able to fill that 2TB drive for storage and not have any need to buy additional storage space like I thought I might when I started.
Man... it's still hot here. I really need to mow that lawn, but I'm not feeling it right now.
It's cloudy as hell though and has been all day, so I didn't get to see what my bathroom looks like with the sunlight shining in this morning. Looks awesome though. I can't wait to get this finished.
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All done for today.
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SIX, if I understand correctly, you're trying to get the 15TB drive to mount (load) last, correct?
Running Linux, correct?
OK will do my best to comit what I was told.
It used to be in old systems, the mount sequence was determined by BIOS. It would start with drive A, then attempt drive B, C etc in order. Which was A, B, etc was determined by which cables were attached in what order.
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Under Linux, the mount sequence and directory assignment is managed BY LINUX.
The only thing BIOS setup does is allow you to determine which drive, or which partition of which drive, to go to to find the boot loader. So you can set your hard drive as the first option, a CDROM as your section option, and a USB stick as your third option where to find the boot loader.
So BIOS finds GRUB (Grand Universal Bootloader?).
GRUB then loads the Linux kernel.
Up to that point, no other storage media (Hdds, ssds) have been mounted.
At this point, you're all good, correct?
So.
Each hard drive, (or each partition of each hard drive, if you've partitioned any, which I don't think you have) is identified by a hugely long number called the UUID, Universal Unit ID.
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A universally unique identifier (UUID) is a 128-bit number used to identify information in computer systems. The term globally unique identifier (GUID) is also used, typically in software created by Microsoft.[1]
When generated according to the standards, UUIDs are, for practical purposes, unique. Their uniqueness does not depend on a central registration authority or coordination between the parties generating them, unlike most other numbering schemes.
While the probability that a UUID will be duplicated is not zero, it is close enough to zero to be negligible.
Your drives all have unique IDs, no longer SDA, SDB etc.
If you're in root, you can find the UUID of each drive with the command blkid (block ID).
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"blkid is a command-line utility in Linux that displays information about available block devices, including their UUIDs, file system types, and labels. It is primarily used for identifying and managing storage devices."
Once you've found the UUID for each device, you can then assign (mount) them to a directory that you want by going to
/root /etc /fstab
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The /etc/fstab file is a system configuration file in Unix-like operating systems that contains information about disk partitions and how they should be mounted. It is used by the system to automatically mount filesystems at boot time, specifying details like device names, mount points, filesystem types, and mount options.
(file system table) and mounting them to a directory like
UUID t12efgy6ujji9plkhfet-yui899ppl5678ngt6 /home/backup
Apparently it's very easy to mess up in /fstab so make sure you haven't monkeyed with which your boot and kernel locations.
Instructions on fstab
https://www.howtogeek.com/38125/htg-explains-what-is-the-linux-fstab-a
nd-how-does-it-work/
I know it's complicated and I may have messed it up. If it doesn't work let me know and I'll re-ask.
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Oh BTW, your bathroom redo: looks classy!! I love the gray and white. Personally, I'd keep the walls all one color, but that's just me.
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I appreciate the info.
My situation makes things a bit tricky. I'm using a very specialized offshoot of Linux geared for a very specific purpose. Unfortunately, I don't even want to mention what that is here for reasons I'm sure you understand. Knowing that wouldn't automatically allow unfriendlys to find my project, but it is just another bread crumb I'm not going to trail back to me on these forums. But I'll just say that this version of Linux has very few tools to operate with after it's loaded up. I think I may be able to get into terminal if I research it, but in the last two years I've used it, the only things I've been able to do is set up FTP access, move files around or create symbolic links. Most traditional programs included with Linux in this OS are not included here and it's pretty locked down.
I'm also not using traditional Grub. I'm using a program called Grub2Win, which is a Windows based program that allows me to choose between Windows and Linux Mint on boot. While inside Windows it has a lot of functionality geared toward generating your desired boot order when you have multiple OS's installed on your PC. Originally I had the program OS directly on that computer as a 3rd option, but very early on I realized that it would create conflicts with any external drives that also had the OS so I eliminated the program OS from the computer itself and as an option in Grub2Win. It is recommended to boot this OS from a USB anyhow, but I thought I was being clever having it on the computer drive. I was not being clever.
But, as far as I can tell, there is no way to make Grub2Win recognize anything off of any of my external drives to load a specific drive, or to load the other drives in a specific order.
It's possible that this Grub2Win program is actually making the legit Grub files somewhere and I could further edit them in terminal using your info. I'm not sure yet.
For now what I've done is just removed the cord from the back of the fast 500GB SSD, and I'm just using the 5TB full slower build and I've got the 15TB drive attached. It works, but it's slow to boot up. I'm going to just do this for a few days while doing other things and see if it screws up anything else or makes anything slower than it was running on the 500GB. If the only drawback turns out to be an additional 15-30 longer boot time, I'm alright with that, at least until I upgrade my PC to something that has a much more hands-on BIOS to work with.
Hey... you didn't say anything about the pictures. Did you see them???
EDIT: Re-reading this reminds me that I realized the other day I still have a partition on the main computer drive for the specialty OS that I should get around to deleting and adding either to the Windows or Mint partition. I guess I haven't bothered with that to the point where I've forgotten about it twice now. I rarely use that computer for anything other than my project and the limited space I've got for Win/Linux on it hasn't ever been a problem needing solving up to this point.
The last few weeks has seen that computer get the most Win/Mint screen time it's ever seen, and in all that time I haven't even touched either of those partitions. I'm just using them to load the OS.
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I posted about the bathroom redo further up. It looks great, SIX!!
Sorry we couldn't help with your device issue.
But windows also uses UUIDs, so maybe there's a clue in there.
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I posted about the bathroom redo further up. It looks great, SIX!!
Sorry we couldn't help with your device issue.
But windows also uses UUIDs, so maybe there's a clue in there.
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Man... I must be going blind. Took me a while to find it this time too.
Thanks, yeah... I think I will keep it all the one color. I shouldn't even be touching two of those walls for the rest of the job, and there's a pretty good chance I can do the electric I'm going to do without making any new wall damage except for cutting out the two boxes I'll be putting up when I fix that mess and add a 2nd outlet. So if I don't mess up my cuts I might actually be done painting except for the remaining cabinet stuff, the inside of the window I filled in with wood filler and the eventual baseboard. Some touch ups for brad nails and caulk too, I suppose. I look at that more like one huge job with the similar work that I'll need to do on all that stairwell trim I put up a while ago.
Don't apologize. I'm sorry you went to all that trouble in your reply. I'll let you know if I look any further into it. Right now it seems like I'm not going to, but that's because I'm still doing a lot of other things. If it turns out that I'm going to have issues with the slower HDD, first thing I'm going to do is go back to your post.
Thanks.
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Yeah... This digital dehoard has been great.
Pretty slow going, but I'll know where everything I'm keeping is when its all done and where it's all backed up. I think by the end there may be around 1 to 2TB that doesn't get a backup, but it will be all the stuff I was on the fence about even bothering to keep, and it's really only going to stay because I'll have so much free space on the 15TB drive that I wouldn't have to delete it for a very long time anyhow.
Part of what's great is that the storage sizes are just so big now. I think I mentioned that huge folder of documents and photos that I have zero desire to go through now. 70GB used to be huge. Back when I lived at my grams and built my 2nd computer I remember an 80GB hard drive costing me around $150. Now I delete that much space off my 15TB drive and all I get is 0.07TB back out of 13.60TB. It's nothing. And having it backed up on my working 5TB it's only taking up 0.07TB out of 4.54TB. It's nothing.
Unless something that I still have yet to go through really surprises me several times, I don't think I'm going to make any more huge steps in gaining space. I've deleted hundreds of thousands of files just today, but probably didn't even get 250GB out of that. And a large portion of that was a surprise folder that was duped with 100GB in it. So about 2/5ths of the space savings so far today took about .05% of the effort of the remaining 3/5ths.
But at this point the more I remove the less that won't have any backup at all.
Part of the backing up is using my "work" drive for storage. I had freed up so much space off of that it probably would never get close to being filled, so I figure anything related to projects that I may want to pick up again one day can be stored there and on the 15TB drive. As long as I have 1TB free for that drive I'm good. That means I can add a good amount since I'll be deleting about 750GB more from it once I get external verification that my build works, and I've still got about 600GB to use before I only have 1TB left.
And I figure any disk images I've made for various builds that I want to back up can be stored on the media streaming disk since there's tons of free space on there that isn't likely going to be used for a long time. I'd probably never bog down my work computer cloning drives and I'd use the images on the 15TB drive, but it will still be nice knowing that they're in 2 spots.
But I'm real happy with a recent find. I'd thought I already got all of my music files put together for one last purge, but then I found another backup folder from an old drive that had almost 50 more songs that I swore I had but couldn't find anywhere.
I'll be adding about 500 new songs to my mp3 player for when I'm outside doing yard work. That's cool. I was really getting pretty burnt out on the ones I had on there and can use the change. I'm not sure if it will all fit on there, but I also found a nice little cache of old SD micro cards I haven't seen for years too if I need more space.
ETA: Hmmmmmm.... I could be wrong about making more significant space. Got my 15TB drive back over 3.4TB free which was a huge leap since last entry. Just a brief skim of what I've got to do to sort through this current part leads me to believe I may have hit the free-space jackpot if I see it through. It will be a lot of work to verify I'm keeping everything that I need and the newest versions of everything because there's just so much of it, but it appears that I have backups from several different time periods on some pretty large things project related from a long time ago. (This is among the old project stuff I thought I hadn't had backed up anymore, but found out that it was... several times over).
Basically, once my current deletions finish, I should be well over 3.6TB free, and since a 15TB drive only has 13.6TB of w
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Things to do. Already sitting at 64F.
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All done for today and fairly warm out.
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I think today might be my last dayt working on the digital dehoard. I'll still need more time to move things around to their final spots when they're done and make sure everything is properly backed up, but I believe making choices has finally wound down.
Got the 15TB drive down to 3.89TB free. I'm sure I'll be able to get that over 4TB no problem. 5TB will probably be out of the question.
2.99TB free on the streaming drive.
Only .99TB free on the Work drive. But that's because I've been adding back all the things I want backed up there. I've still got a 2TB drive free for final backup decisions, but I want to put the stuff on there that I'm least likely to ever use again, and none of the stuff put on the Work Drive falls under that category. I've still got over a half-terrabyte of stuff I'll be removing from the work drive when I get confirmation that I can, so I'll still have quite a bit of room for additional backups and maintain 1 free TB.
I also added the additional 300+ songs to my mp3 player.
It'll be nice finally having that done.
I'm in for a job tomorrow. It's finally going to cool off with a high of 71 degrees, so I've got to mow the lawn. It's LONG. Plenty of free grass seed though.
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Man.... Got that huge drive down to 4.36TB free. That's almost an extra 5TB external hard drive if I can get that up to about 4.54TB.
It's just too bad I can't back up the remaining stuff I'd like to back up on the same drive it's already sitting on.
This really has been amazing for me. So much history either put into the form I envisioned, or being purged from my life all at once. And the best thing is that no matter what basket it gets thrown into, it's all going to be out of my head for the first time in about 2 and a half decades.
And all this bonus little stuff on the periphery like all of this suddenly usable tech I didn't have in a usable state that I'll be free to use or give away. Straightening out all my stuff in the most intelligent way possible so everything works for me instead of being a hassle. 3 large trash cans of crap going out already with more to come this summer after I wrap up the bathroom and the computer stuff.
And it's not even June yet.
I should be able to handle at least the 2 of the major 3 things I want to get done this year before summer's done. And if I do, that's going to alleviate a lot of my general house stress too. I'll finally be able to say that I've officially stopped any outside factors damaging my house, at least outside of some unspeakable tragedy.
Man... Wouldn't that be novel? Being able to go to work overnight while it's raining heavily and not worried that I'm going to come back home in the morning to a flooded basement?
I almost don't remember what it felt like not to worry about the rain.
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4.38.... Man... It's slow going now. But I knew eventually it would be. Not only do I have several iterations of the project to sort through, but through my documentation, folder names, file dates and memory I've got to piece together which is the newest that was the most up-to-date that also works with the old tech.
I'd been putting stuff out to the side for about a decade now on and off that was meant to one day do this to all of it. I think I just may have pulled it off as far as the light documentation and folder names go. Just have to be super careful and not go deleting things without being sure since I'm doing stuff on a drive that doesn't benefit from a trash can and they're permanent deletions outside of using recovery software to fix a mistake.
I think I've still got quite a few hours to go, but I doubt very much I'll ever get to 4.54TB free. Something might still pop up nested in all those sub-folders, but I think the large files are all sorted through now. Just hundreds of thousands of little ones to go through. Yay.
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4.38.... Man... It's slow going now. But I knew eventually it would be. Not only do I have several iterations of the project to sort through, but through my documentation, folder names, file dates and memory I've got to piece together which is the newest that was the most up-to-date that also works with the old tech.
I'd been putting stuff out to the side for about a decade now on and off that was meant to one day do this to all of it. I think I just may have pulled it off as far as the light documentation and folder names go. Just have to be super careful and not go deleting things without being sure since I'm doing stuff on a drive that doesn't benefit from a trash can and they're permanent deletions outside of using recovery software to fix a mistake.
I think I've still got quite a few hours to go, but I doubt very much I'll ever get to 4.54TB free. Something might still pop up nested in all those sub-folders, but I think the large files are all sorted through now. Just hundreds of thousands of little ones to go through. Yay.
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That isn't like sorting thru photos! There's a whole logic structure to maintain!
Good luck on that, SIX! Now you'll find out how good your documentation was!
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I spent a couple of hours today raking up, chopping up, and binning up the detritus of my pulling down vines and cutting down dead stuff and pruning up. = 75 gal bin.
My next big effort will be to make professional tree trimming safer. But not for a whil.e
This is where I bow out for a while. Family commitments. Need to turn attention elsewhere.
See you on the flip side!
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Oh gosh!
That isn't like sorting thru photos! There's a whole logic structure to maintain!
Good luck on that, SIX! Now you'll find out how good your documentation was!
So far, so good. Knock on wood.
Yeah... Nothing like photos, although there is plenty of images that are being processed right now. Except for in a rare instance where I'm confused about something, I don't ever even look at them as thumbnails since I have to do this in Detail mode.
I've got a good idea to look at easily with size and even extension differences. Not all things have gotten bigger, but I do still have it firmly in my mind which should be bigger and which should be smaller and by how much. One large part in particular could be figured out easily because there were tons of additions and subtractions and I still remember enough of them to easily tell an old folder from the one I want to keep. And these are all tasks I only need to do if the date isn't helpful for whatever reason. Using some folder compare software and even individual file compare software has made this possible. When I started this stuff back in the WinXP days, there weren't nearly as many useful tools as there are today.
I only really got messed up so far one time. It took me a while to figure out what happened, but there was a pretty large pool of data that I had probably spent quite a bit of time editing twice, about 3 or 4 years apart, not realizing that I'd already done it. And although I like how it was done both times, it was done slightly differently both times and I had to make a decision on what to cut. That double work was probably a week of my younger life evaporated with a delete press, but no use crying over it now.
The thing is, I'm not really sweating this at all. I already had a great thing on the old tech. This is just stuff that I was also making for that old tech as I was making it for the new tech. Somewhere along the way I've kind of fallen in love with the new stuff and although I'll be sad to see some concessions that needed to be made to make the transfer, I really kind of equally fell out of love with the old way of doing it.
To be honest, all this work I'm doing now might never again be used. It all depends on how difficult the network wants to make that old stuff. It was always a pain in the ass, and for various reasons making clones was worthless on the old tech so it was always built file by file. Do you have any idea how long it takes for a computer to send over 600,000 files to early 2000's tech via oldschool FTP? Waiting for that is agony. What really slows it down is just how much time it takes between every file. Once it's handling big files the speed isn't half bad. But when you've got so many files that are 1kb or so, and it takes about 4 to 6 seconds between closing off the connection and opening an new one for the new file or whatever the hell it's doing is awful.
I may just decide when I go through all of that stuff in my attic and find out what's even working anymore that it's not worth the trouble to even update it with the stuff that I had been putting aside with that intent.
It's possible I may put it all on a smaller drive or two and clone that, and then get in touch with some people I haven't talked to in a long time to see if they would still want it, but I'm moving on now.
This new way of getting stuff done is just 100 times better, despite a few minor annoyances.
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I spent a couple of hours today raking up, chopping up, and binning up the detritus of my pulling down vines and cutting down dead stuff and pruning up. = 75 gal bin.
My next big effort will be to make professional tree trimming safer. But not for a whil.e
This is where I bow out for a while. Family commitments. Need to turn attention elsewhere.
See you on the flip side!
Good for you sigs.
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Mah jong tomorrow.
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Good luck, Brenda.
Almost done with the purge part of the digital dehoard now.
Damn... I don't think I'll get to 4.54TB free. It's going to be really close though. I believe I'm at 4.40TB now. Doesn't matter. I like those little number games though to keep my mind off the tedium.
I'll just have to figure out what's getting backed up where after that. Probably a job for tomorrow though. I'd like to get to bed at a decent hour so I'm not mowing my lawn at the end of the day tomorrow. It's finally going to cool down a bit.
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BOOM! DONE!
I know for damn sure there's more to be sorted, and I could spend the next 2 months doing it, but I ain't gonna.
Got that build done, and I've made somewhere between 6TB and 7TB of free space, and that's including all of the stuff that I've already backed up which now is somewhere in the range of 8TB.
The only drive out of the nearly 10 in the equation that is close to being full is the 5TB drive that I put the full build on. It all fits on one, but unfortunately it's only got 5% free and I would rather have it at 12%. That would give the 10% you always want to give, and allow for another 2% for configurations and data and other files that users would make in the background just by using it. It should never use more than 2% or anything close to it.
I will have to package up 7% of the build and back it up on my work drive until I get a 6TB drive to properly back up the full build one day, but I can still point to the 15TB drive for that if it's ever used. It likely never will be.
All other drives have well over 10% free. Work drive has 1.01TB free and still has another 500GB+ to be removed after offsite verification is complete. 15TB drive is at 4.63TB free and will have another 386GB removed after offsite verification is complete, so probably over a full 5TB free. Streaming drive at 2.99TB free.
Blank 2TB, 512GB SSD and 256GB SSD at my disposal for whatever now. The 2TB drive will be used for backups. I could also convert another 128GB SSD that's sitting inside a computer now as an extra drive, but I probably won't buy an enclosure for that when you can spend just a bit more for a cheaper brand thumbdrive of that size.
There's no reason for me to bother sorting or purging anything else. It will all be there for me to go through if I ever think of something or need something and isn't harming nobody if it never gets sorted.
Man... Once my final backups are done on this stuff, that's just going to be such a massive, massive weight off my back.
Like, for reals.
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