Last week - 'Hi Carla, errrr my Mac is going really slow and I can't open 'photos' anymore, it just shows the spinning wheel for hours on end. I'm really worried that I've lost all my wedding and baby photos.' Last month - 'OMG Carla - someone stole my laptop, iPad and phone (they were all in the same bag) what if someone deletes my 50K photos and videos?' It goes on and on. I answer, as politely as possible, - do you back up? And they always say..... no, or I'm not sure, or
Everything benefits from a good spring clean..... The first time I ran a duplicate file finder it took half an hour to run, and then hours (literally) to dig through the results and confirm which files to remove. This painful experience made me realise that doing it regularly is a much less unpleasant process so now I set myself a reminder to run it once a month. This keeps my computer tidier, my hard drive sleeker and speeds things up. The worst offenders are photos, videos