Thursday, May 17, 2012
What is up with my computer?!?!
So I feel like it's been forever since I was able to post anything on here! I am having a serious problem with my computer and am having trouble fixing it. It seems as though I take a greater than normal number of pictures of my kids, which has filled up the memory on the hard drive. I have only had this computer for about 3 years and have NEVER had this problem before with any other computer I've ever had. Since the hard drive is full, I can do nothing - not even update my Firefox or create any new Word documents! Moo is about to graduate Kinder and I couldn't even contribute any photos to the collage the parent group is making because my drive is so full it can't even burn a disc! So I am typing this from my iPad, which is an odd experience since I don't think Blogspot was designed with mobile devices in mind. I have purchased an external hard drive, but now I have to figure out how to get everything off my hard drive and onto the external drive. And since the Hubbs is either at work,overtime or the gym about 95% of the time, it is hard to find the time to be in the study. My main problem with that is that the study is not Toots friendly. It is organized and clean, but I cannot be sure that she couldn't get her hands on a pin or scissors or Sharpies. So I try to keep her out of there and since it is on the other side of the house, I can't just head in there and leave her in the family room alone...blah. Someday I'll have a laptop and this will be lots easier. But now that I can manage just written posts on the iPad, I'll try to get on here more often to at least get some written posts up.
Like I mentioned, Moo is almost done with Kinder! Then I will have a first grader on my hands, what?!?! I just can't seem to wrap my head around that. As soon as Moo gets out of school, we will be moving Toots into her room. The big girls will use the summer to get used to the whole room sharing thing and hopefully have it down by the time school starts again in the fall. We are also trying to wean Toots off the bottle and onto some big girl sippy cups. She has been resisting like crazy and won't even try to use a big girl cup. So that one might take a while. But it must be done!
Hopefully I'll be able to update a little more if this iPad thing cooperates, so summer may be well documented this year! Yipee!
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Had the same problem. Though mine was too many chicken pictures :) Moving the files to the new hard drive was easy. It was just like moving them between folders. Don't fret. And after the computer will be agreeable again!
ReplyDeleteHi Lissa, I have some valuable info to help you. It will take a little time, but your computer will run faster. The more on the hard drive, all the temp files, programs running, etc will slow the computer a lot. I suggest buying a flash drive, so you can move many pictures to it. I wrote the following link full of info which has helped me bring my computer to run like new when i was convinced i needed a new one. This info is from my years of experience dealing with my computer. I've had the same one now for about 7 years. http://modern-day-laura.blogspot.com/2012/04/speeding-up-your-computer.html
ReplyDeleteThanks guys! It is one of those tasks that I'm dreading and since the girls hate when I'm across the house, I have to wait til they're asleep and by then I just plain don't want to do it. I'll look at the info you suggested Connie, thank you. Hopefully that will push me to get it done!
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