I’ve had my Macbook for about 5 years now & it’s served me well, but…well…I’m ready to move on. It’s getting to be a bit slow, some of the plastic has chipped off of the case, it’s dirty, the mouse clicker thing is permanently half-depressed at all times making it difficult to click, and I only have about 6 GB of storage left on my hard drive.
So, my lovely husband agreed that I need a new computer! Macs are my love even though they’re ridiculously expensive, so this time I’ll be getting a 15 inch macbook pro. Since we’re planning on buying it in Tax-free Delaware (score!) very soon, I’m faced with the decision of whether or not I want to transfer the information I currently have on my macbook to this new computer.
And honestly, I really don’t want to.
Mostly because of my pictures. See, every time I take photos with my camera, I take quite a few in quick succession. Then, I weed through the bad ones and pick the good ones that I want to share/post/whatever IF I even do that. And I don’t delete the bad photos. Mostly, every picture I’ve taken in the last five years, good or bad, is sitting on my computer doing nothing. Five years of this behavior and a LOT of pictures later, I’ve completely clogged up my computer with pictures that don’t mean a whole lot anymore.
Seriously?? Seriously??? How many of the EXACT same picture do I need on my computer from us in 2008? Multiply this problem by a million. A billion if we’re talking about pictures of our dogs.
So. I have a lot of reorganizing to do because a)I would like to bring SOME photos over to my new computer and b)it’d be nice to free up some space on this computer so we can use it as a backup computer/personal computer for Mike since he only has a work laptop.
Do you keep your pictures organized, or is your computer a mess of the same photos over and over again as well? Do you have any tips on how to go through these in the most efficient way?
