This is very true.  I got a terabyte external hard drive for only 75 bucks
on eBay.

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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lynn Evans
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 7:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Hard drive filling up!

Hard drives are not all that expensive nymore. www.buy.com has drives for 
around $100.
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From: "Michael Groat" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] Hard drive filling up!


> Catherine,
> May I suggest backup your document file.  I also have an external drive.
> Every so often, I copy my documents file to the external drive.  I name 
> the
> copied file as date (i.e. 03-10-2010 Copy of My Documents Then you can go 
> to
> My Documents on the C drive and delete files that you do not use very 
> often.
> I use MS Outlook 2003 and I have found that I can forward a group of 
> emails
> to myself.  They get sent as attachments.  Then when the email is opened, 
> I
> select all of the emails and then Save Attachments.  I then have the 
> emails
> on my hard drive and can then copy them to the external drive.  The emails
> will open as long as Outlook is running.  I don't know if this will work
> with the email program that you use, but you might experiment a bit.  That
> is how I came across the process that I use.
>
> Please let me know how you make out with this
> Michael
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Visually Impaired Computer Users' Group List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Catherine Getchell
> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 3:27 PM
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> Subject: [VICUG-L] Hard drive filling up!
>
> Hi listers,
> I'm approaching the limit of my 80GB capacity on my C drive.  In the last
> few months, I've been careful to clean off all unnecessary files, and I 
> even
> ran a harddrive clean-up program I found.  Despite these efforts, there
> seems to be less and less space on the drive.  Am I just being bombarded 
> by
> space-hogging spyware?  Does anyone have any ideas of what I could do to
> clean up my drive?  I do have an external drive which I use to back up
> files, and while I could delete a bunch of music etc from my C drive and
> keep it on the external drive only, I'd really rather not.  It bugs me 
> that
> the space on my hard drive doesn't seem to be within my control.  I'm
> running Windows XP on a Lenovo laptop.  Any ideas would be greatly
> appreciated!
> Catherine
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