MAKING ROOM

Okay, an "Eddie K #05" update: I started recording voices for 
Scene 5 yesterday, but I ran into a bit of a snag.  I have no more 
room on my SD card, and I'm unwilling to delete my original files 
until I'm done (and I'd like to keep them after that too, if I 
can, simply for posterity's sake).  But space seems to be at a 
premium these days, and not just for this project either.  I've 
hit a wall on backups too, for the same reason.  I'm at the point 
where I have to delete stuff just to make room for regular 
backups.  This is not a good position to be in, but I had a bunch 
of movies I'd ripped and held onto, always intending to watch 
them, but hadn't gotten the chance.  I'm not sentimental about 
these sorts of things.  With just a couple of exceptions, I don't 
hold on to movies after I've seen them.

So I started to watch and delete these things last night.  One of 
them seemed to be corrupted (I'd copied it over from another drive 
at some point in the past -- again, without ever actually watching 
it), so that was an easy deletion.  I watched another after that, 
and was able to delete it too.  Between them, that was about 11 or 
12 GB's I reclaimed last night.  It's not nearly enough, but it's 
a start.

So, as I write these words, I'm resizing the partitions of my 
backup drive so as to be able to fit everything.  It's taking 
forever.  And I can't record anything for "Eddie K" until I have 
this done.  It's a little frustrating.  Actually, it's a lot 
frustrating, but I'm handling it well, due to my happy-go-lucky 
personality.

If/when it's completed, I can back up this project, and have a 
copy of the originals (and all the edits too, of course), and I 
can clear the card.  With a little luck, I'll be recording again 
by tonight.  That can seem like a a lot to hope for, though, 
sometimes.

Nope.  Not going there.  Not today.  Eye on the prize.

Sunday, February 26, 2012
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