{"id":253,"date":"2007-05-19T07:30:27","date_gmt":"2007-05-19T15:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2007-05-19T07:30:27","modified_gmt":"2007-05-19T15:30:27","slug":"hard-drive-clean-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/19\/hard-drive-clean-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard drive clean up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent hard drives are great, they allow you to store hundreds of Gigabytes of information but without a good backup system you could loose everything.<\/p>\n<p>I got used to make regular backups on DVD but that option became a real pain after I realised that my 300 Gb HD was completely full, only having a handful of gigs backed up..  Time for some clean up. Today I wanted to talk about the softwares I use for clean up: Windirstat and Picasa<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/windirstat.info\/\">Windirstat <\/a>allows you to see in a very visual manner what you have on your hard drive and it becomes very easy to find out who are the biggest culprits. Each block represent a file and moving the mouse cursor over them will display their name<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/windirstat.info\/images\/windirstat.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t need to present <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/features\/index.html\">Picasa<\/a>, I guess everyone knows it. It is great to realise how many pictures you have been storing for years. Now one thing I would need though it a software that allows you to find duplicates of pictures. Picasa does it but I am still unsure about how to use it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent hard drives are great, they allow you to store hundreds of Gigabytes of information but without a good backup system you could loose everything. I got used to make regular backups on DVD but that option became a real pain after I realised that my 300 Gb HD was completely full, only having a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-hack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/olivier-ladeuix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}