Comments on: A Pretty Simple Guide To Maintaining A Healthy Mac https://fort90.com/a-pretty-simple-guide-to-maintaining-a-healthy-mac/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-pretty-simple-guide-to-maintaining-a-healthy-mac The homebase of Matthew Hawkins Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Matt https://fort90.com/a-pretty-simple-guide-to-maintaining-a-healthy-mac/#comment-7899 Matt Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:22:21 +0000 http://www.fort90.com/journal/?p=321#comment-7899 I've always been extremely organized, but nothing strengthened my resolve more than when I started my day job at SVA, in which I had to take over the duties of web-master for the computer art department. The previous guy was extremely messy, and when you're dealing with student work, you need to have everything organized by year, area of concentration, etc., and this person did none of that. Aside from stuff being all over the place, it was all mixed with random work files that were outdated and non-essential, as well as his personal stuff, plus random porn. I also knew since day one that I wasn't going to be the web guy forever, so I have to make sure that things are sensibility organized for the next person after-me. Another reason why I'm so organized I suppose is the days of Classic. Granted, you can now leave tons of files on the desktop without fear of slowing down the computer like "the good ol'd days", but it still annoys me when I see my friends' messy desktops. I’ve always been extremely organized, but nothing strengthened my resolve more than when I started my day job at SVA, in which I had to take over the duties of web-master for the computer art department. The previous guy was extremely messy, and when you’re dealing with student work, you need to have everything organized by year, area of concentration, etc., and this person did none of that. Aside from stuff being all over the place, it was all mixed with random work files that were outdated and non-essential, as well as his personal stuff, plus random porn. I also knew since day one that I wasn’t going to be the web guy forever, so I have to make sure that things are sensibility organized for the next person after-me.

Another reason why I’m so organized I suppose is the days of Classic. Granted, you can now leave tons of files on the desktop without fear of slowing down the computer like “the good ol’d days”, but it still annoys me when I see my friends’ messy desktops.

]]> By: toby https://fort90.com/a-pretty-simple-guide-to-maintaining-a-healthy-mac/#comment-7871 toby Tue, 24 Jan 2006 16:16:51 +0000 http://www.fort90.com/journal/?p=321#comment-7871 Yay. At home and at work I tend to put everything on external drives then back that up on additional drives or CD/DVD. That way I can dump my computer's system/application drive whenever I feel like. Can also save a small backup of the old system on the externals just in case. I need to get better at automated backups though and making sure I don't leave email on the server to be eaten by hackers. Right now at work I'm trying to sort through 2TBs of photoshop files and manage three full externals left by the previous graphics person. Their organizational structure is mind-boggling awful. Yay.

At home and at work I tend to put everything on external drives then back that up on additional drives or CD/DVD. That way I can dump my computer’s system/application drive whenever I feel like. Can also save a small backup of the old system on the externals just in case. I need to get better at automated backups though and making sure I don’t leave email on the server to be eaten by hackers.

Right now at work I’m trying to sort through 2TBs of photoshop files and manage three full externals left by the previous graphics person. Their organizational structure is mind-boggling awful.

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