In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Friday, September 11, 2026 15:29
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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now and come up with a new batch of things I wanted backed up, since most of the backups on 2 drives are now severely outdated as well.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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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
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!)
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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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.
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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