4TB down to not even 20GB

Care to fill us in on what happened, OP?

>>57460264
I went through every single file, one by one, and only kept it if it triggered an emotional reaction no matter how small that reaction was. I did have a pseudo-reaction though, in that I was saddened by how little I cared about bands I loved in school.

Now I've got an entire pile of hard drives and various storage media that's surplus to any requirement.

>>57460297
Send some over

>>57460297
So you deleted everything for what reason? You had to have had a reason to do it

im envious of you op
i have been working for years just to get down to 400gb

and i'd like it to be smaller still, but there's just so much i can't get rid of including software iso's and shit

i only have 8gb of music left tho

>>57459813

nice blog

turn this into a psa so other retards analyze a situation before commiting

>>57460624
Not always. It's just an animal instinct, keeping things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMn272A60MU

Don't worry, you'll start missing them soon enough

I have a continuous updating backup that i keep and I have ~14TB in media. I could probably cut down on 500-700GB if I went through and cleaned lower res versions out and duplicates.

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>>57459813
>I was saddened by how little I cared about bands I loved in school.
Now be glad you didn't get a tattoo.

>>57460672
Fair point, but the difference here is that the data wasn't going to hurt OP by keeping it. Unless you cannot afford another or larger drive, or are running out of space there is no reason to purge that much data.

>>57460716
Sometimes it's good to take stock and trim the fat. Having too much data can make it harder to find the actual important things because its hidden in amongst so much trash.

>>57460716
But why keep it if it's meaningless to you?

Best thing to do imo is to dump it on a bazillion torrent sites, and be done with it.

>clearing local hard drives: yass
>fundamentally deleting: nah

>>57460745
It really doesn't make it harder because there are search functions and proper file organization. If you can't find a file on your computer that's because you did the wrong thing with it, not because there is too much.
>>57460757
Fair point, it does depend on what exactly the data was. I'll agree with releasing it into the wild internet. Don't delete just spread

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Hoarding is a disease.

I also deleted the games, videos and porn I hoarded. At first it felt bad but you dont really miss anything.

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<blog>

Part of my routine at the start of each year is to go through all that I have accumulated and delete everything that I have no use for, or get no more enjoyment from. I've been doing it for years now and as such I still have a legacy limit of 700mb, from when I used to put things on discs.

And it's a rolling 700mb, so each year I'm also removing files from what I deemed worthy of saving from years before.

</blog>

>>57459813
well now youve got shitloads of space for porn
>>>/trash/
>>>/b/
>>>/aco/
go nuts

>>57461035
I've restarted my porn drive 6 times, and it gets bigger and better in more ways than I can imagine every time.

definitely false.

>>57461351
Are you stupid? That proves them right, you removed the old stuff and no longer miss it.

>>57460916
Only if it causes you problems. Hard drive space is pretty cheap, and if your files are organized enough that you can find things, what's the problem with it?

Minimalism for minimalism's sake accomplishes nothing.

>>57461373
Are you incapable of comprehension or something?

I deleted my entire porn collection, then rebuilt it twice as big each time because it was missed. If I no longer missed it, I wouldn't have rebuilt it.

There's still tons of porn I'll never be able to get back again that I want badly

>>57461351
You are also underage. When you grow up you'll understand.

>>57461385
Digital clutter, just like physical clutter, gives me attention deficit, suicidal ideation, anxiety attacks and runny nose.

>>57461504
>only retort is calling someone underage, to somehow prove a point.
Right.

>>57461551
>Digital clutter
Then organize it so it's not clutter anymore.

>>57461385
No one is saying to delete absolutely everything, rather not to just keep things for the sake of it. If you only keep things that have a genuine worth then you'll have far less data, but also better data.

I mean, no one is going to saying that having 1TB of various educational material is a waste the same way that having 100GB of anime is.

>>57461602
Organising things is just arranging your clutter better.

>>57461604
what if that 100gb of anime is saved for a rainy day

>>57461614
Doesn't matter what you perceive it as.
It's not 'clutter' anymore by definition, therefore should not trigger his autism.

>>57459813
BUILD THE DOGGER A BIGGER SHELF

>>57461645
>thinking you can replace that thing you used to love but have outgrown with a bigger version of it

It's time to let it go, anon.

>>57461632
you underestimate the power of autism

>>57461725
>>57461632
>/g/ has reached the point where not keeping TBs of Taiwanese woodwork documentaries is autistic

>>57459813
You shit and pissed out most of the food and drink you've ever had, but that hardly makes any of it a waste. Hell, keeping too much of it around as fat probably just cut your life shorter by decades.

>>57461602
Don't be silly, you can't possibly organize porn.

>>57461837
Yes you can.
./normal/
./unforgivable/

>>57461837
hydrus network for images/videos
happy panda for doujin

>>57459813
>>57460297
OP you have a serious problem. You're feeling a void because your hoarding material isn't there anymore. You need to let go of what you don't need in order to have a better life. Look at that pile of hard drives just look at them, feel the freedom of not having to care about what happens to that physical piece of metal, encrypt your 20GB upload them to a google drive or what have you, and embrace minimalism. Things are a prison, they require constant care, attention and the more you have the less satisfied you will feel. At the end of the day your precious things mean nothing to anyone else, if something were to happen to you everything you own would be taken to the dumpster.

Have you ever experienced cleaning the home of a loved one after they pass away? A huge pile of things that mean nothing to you, but were treasures accumulated over a life time, someone's life digested down to the things they have in their home, and what happens to it? Garbage. I dumpster dive and you wouldn't believe it even with your own eyes looking at a family picture album, someones life and things in your hands, and their family just threw it all away. Free yourself from things, become the only thing you'll need, you can always have access to most of knowledge and content you need online through a smartphone or computer. Keep your photos well guarded and stored, keep what is important to you. And live life itself for yourself and not for hoarding things.

>>57461604
I have over 10 TB of anime and it isn't a waste. It's my hobby.

>>57462013
>And live life itself for yourself and not for hoarding things.
there's nothing i really care about in life aside from having a perfect collection.

>>57459813
It's a healthy thing to do, letting go of past junk and materialism. Minimalism is love, zen, and attachment to things that matter.

>>57462067
There's nothing wrong with hobbys anon, but when they take control of your life it is no longer a hobby, it's an obsession.

I've never liked the idea of having so much digital crud I need TBs of space to store it all.

>>57462013
I'd say the void more comes from him realising that all those things he thought made him happy actually didn't.

>>57462175

That can be very liberating though, I guess it's fear that will take over when you have that realization, sounds like some anger also. Hopefully OP can go through acceptance and wonder what will make him happy and go from there to explore other things.

>>57462175
It could also come from running Void Linux.

>>57459813
4tb isn't much. You're overreacting like those Hillary supporters.

>>57462248
>4tb isn't much

It is if it's all trash.

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>>57459813
>been saving tons of anime pictures over the years
>don't really care for most of them by now.

>>57463638
You could track anime popularity based on my folders over the years.

Remember Desert Punk? That shit was advertised on Gamespy forums.

>>57463723
not really, I started hoarding in 2009. I remember that back then toradora and clannad were popular.

>next episode of digital hoarding: buried alive on /g/LC


Seriously though, lot of people have a problem with this on here.

>>57459813
This is the cutest shit i've seen in a while, post more.

>Is this really all it was for?
i save logs of where i talk online so i can always go back and copy a line of what they said from 7 years ago and be like "THAT'S NOT WHAT YOU SAID BACK WHEN-"

and it's totally worth it

#nobackup

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>>57464470
I used to do that...

>>57459813
You could've passed all that to someone else

What's the best way to organize your stuff? I've got thousands of photo references that I need to organize, but using folders/directories isn't ideal since some have many tags or could be under many categories.

>>57465788
I organize them by folders, at the month that I took them from the device. So let's say I have pictures from January through March on the device. I copy them all into a folder today, and I name that folder "2016 November"

>>57462013

I didn't want to feel this feel...

>>57459813
20GB

so you're saying you had 2 TB of 320x240 porn and teen bands?

does that mean you dont have backup up some current porn or music you listen to nowadays?

whaht are you, a a redtube/spotify homosexual?

>>57460697
yeah, hash duplicates is easy , but i gotta look into
>lower res versions out and duplicates.
some program to compare images visually

and another to make a taglist for some folder trees with duplicates that exist because i use the folder like a non-exclusive categorization scheme (aka tags)

>>57460297
Having an existential midlife crisis? I hear those are hard to deal with. I personally went through about 2 or 3 existential crisis already, multiple depressions in childhood, and I'm pretty sure I'm scott free for the rest of my life. Hopefully...

I personally hope you find a hobby you find meaningful again and can continue to enjoy your life.

>>57464470
yeah baby, ICQ/MSN logs, via miranda-im
IRC logs is industry standard

i like to even leave my nicknames in the channels, the shit ppl spill on the channel just because theres no one active

>>57466134
I strongly suggest Vistanita duplicate finder if you're on Windows.
Easy to use and has a lot of features.

>>57465946
i always use folder by date, but

2016-11-11 - lake trip
2016-11-11 - bigfoot hunt

>>57465788
look into XNview and related programs,

its hotkeys and interface are very versatile, i recall helping a relative set up a way for them to go thru a few thousand pics in a day marking tags for each one

you can always export the tags once you find a newer program, or even feed it to file copiers with AHK Python or other scripts

>>57466157
can you post a random non important one?

>>57459813
"to measure my abilities"

Google drive fixed my hoarding autism

Now i have to limit to my shit below 19gb

>>57466629
What about pictures?

>>57466655
Do you really need them?

>>57459813
that picture gave me feelings

>>57467817
Yes I really do. I need to look at places I been and people I've met and family that is no longer here. It helps sometimes to do that. Maybe this is a age difference, maybe I'm just to sentimental, I may not have things but pictures even if in digital form I will have.

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I have 16TB of shit I want to go through, sort and prune but I never get around to it because I am constantly adding to it.

I was thinking recently if I ever wanted to move I would be tied down things, but I can work out how to discard them.

Things might be a little different if I were more wealthy, I could afford to just buy new stuff where ever I end up and not fret too much about loosing stuff, but still there is sentimental things - mostly data - I can't bear to let go.

>>57467953
Oh I don't meant that you don't need pictures at all but I would find it surprising if the important or useful pics took up more than 2-3Gb so I imagined it was about another porn or animu collection.

>>57467974
>petabytes of shit... constantly adding to it.
i know man... but are you taking steps to at leats make thing that you're adding know will be properly calatoged for pruning/keeping/usage?


i never understood what sad picard had to do with frogman, but pepe isnt soggyknees or racist anon, what are you a reditor?

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>>57468199
>i know man... but are you taking steps to at leats make thing that you're adding know will be properly calatoged for pruning/keeping/usage?

some things, but a lot of stuff especially off imgboards are difficult to keep track of.

>>57467974
jesus christ... i didnt know i was a dumb frog poster

I just recently got a seedbox with the express purpose to download some hoarding materials, things that I could read or listen to in case of no internet.

Podcasts, audiobooks, ebooks a couple of linux distros and the manuals to linux in general from the free linux documentation.

In the process of starting to download Louis Rossmans entire channel and a few other channels I'm interested in. But I don't consider that important info, If it got wiped out tomorrow, I wouldn't give two shits about it. Now my family pics, that is fucking golden and irreplaceable.

>>57467980
i could probably narrow it down to 3gb if I really tried to, but you know, as cheap as memory can be it wouldn't be much to store 30gb of important to you pics locally, or even on offsite storage.

>>57459813
this pupper is so cute <3

Every so often I try to whittle down all the porn I never bothered to delete but theres just too much. At this point I should probably just delete everything in the folders I havent saved anything to in years. I don't hoard anything else. If not for the porn I'd probably keep some TV shows around instead of only having a season on file at a time.

>>57468257
>especially off imgboards a
if youre archiving 4cha, espacially B

are you using BASC archiver to download entire threads?

step 1)
just catalog by board and number, and copy the full url to a txt (since it includes some text from OP), or a txt with number + theme


2)
-and once you BASC something, dont look at it, just browse once its pruned so you can do a one-time readout,
-re-saving what you want with "save with DownThemAll" once per thread and then "1 click DownThemAll" to the same permanent folder of that theme/subtheme

1a)
i was thinking of making a python script to go 1 folder deep and generate a catalog style html for me to browse the archive threads in troves of similar content to do step (2) all at once


but mostly, i just browse with DtA ready, saving just the images i like and bookmarking useful links already on proper categories

one bookmark tree for *new* entries, and another for permanent bookmarks,

mimicking the folder structure as well, one backup tree for shit i blindly backed up to check later, and another for shit ive curated

(and another for old backup that are les organized)
)

>>57468733
Are you archiving entire threads or pictures of the thread?

How browsable is it? How much space does say, a day of threads take? And why archive 4chan threads of all things?

>>57462013
this post was beautiful anon

>>57459813
Your mistake is in thinking that the destination is the important part; that things have a 'point'.

The experience is the real part, and you've probably had loads of good times with the CP and anime games you've downloaded.

>>57468785
https://github.com/bibanon/BASC-Archiver
as easy as CLI > archiver boards.4chan.org/g/thread/57459813
it saves the html and images, even makes a txt with links found

im not archiving 4chan just some random threads i gaze upon and think something good might be said in it or posted, so i set basc to it, saving to a temp backup.

eventually i browse these archives and keep only some images using DtA

when saving with Dta i use this bookmarklet to unshorten 4chan filenames and make DTA use them as filename (DTA saving with filename=*fulltext*.*ext* )

javascript:(function(){var%20j,k,x;for(k=0;x=document.getElementsByClassName("fileText")[k];k++){j=x.getElementsByTagName("a")[0];if(j.title.length>j.innerText.length)j.innerText=j.title;}})();

i just get all subfolders names from the /b-temp/ and create a simple html in notepad++ with regex

<a  123/123.html >123

for me to open in broowser and just open them one after the other browsing the temp threads

>>57468956

If you are archiving just specific threads. Why not save the website under jaypeg, i remember seeing that you can simply type that command in firefox console. yeah it wouldn't save images full quality but how often are those relevant.

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>>57468733
I just use the various archives retrieve threads and save the threads as .mht

I might average a few threads a day at most so it's not worth the trouble of setting up a archive.

bookmarks are a different problem for me, I've got 200k of bookmarks going back to 2004 ;_;

I'll never get it sorted, there is so much stuff I want to read but my autism won't let me take a break so I can catch up.

>>57459813
But muh pizza! It could be worth a lot out in the market someday!

>>57468999
>it wouldn't save images full quality but how often are those relevant.
you mean Shift+F2 > screenshot --fullpage
?

i could expand all image and do that, but its just as simple to set BASC to archive it, and basc keeps checking the thread for updates so i dont lose it in the amount of time that it goes from bump limit > archived > 404

>>57469219
>the various archives retrieve threads
you mean the various archive sites?
u mean you bookmark a thread to MHT it the next day from these sites?
because if you MHT it now it wont be complete

BTW so youre saving just the thumbs?


>>57469219
>I might average a few threads a day
what u mean?


>>57469219
>200k of bookmarks
damn, youre my idol

>>57469289
>you mean the various archive sites?
I mean the different archives like 4plebs/rbt/warosu etc

>u mean you bookmark a thread to MHT it the next day from these sites?
no I just save them in threadwatch in appchan then save them a few days later or go to the archives if they are pruned off 4chan or deleted.

then I save the threads/pages as .mht

>what u mean?

I mean I occasionally find interesting thread worth archiving. I save only what I've read, I already have so much shit backlogged I can't imagine archiving indiscriminately all the garbage on 4chan, much less spend even more time sifting through it later.

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>>57469391
http://maf.mozdev.org/

>>57469391
>threadwatch in appchan

https://zixaphir.github.io/appchan-x/
?

regular 4chan watcher will exclude pruned threads, as you load the catalog you briefly see greyed out threads (archived) and in a coupe seconds they disappear, fucking... gonna try that extension

>>57469570
yes.

appchan doesn't delete anything in threadwatch and if thread is 404 will automatically redirect to one of the archives.

Ok guys, we are all actually talking about porn right? I have 3TB

35 year old here. I rarely delete stuff. I've still got files from my Amiga from 25 years ago. Most of it is pretty tiny so it's trivial to back up.
My MP3 collection probably takes up the most space, followed by photos. I rarely access any of it, but I like knowing that it's there. My music and photos are both backed up on Google Music and Photos.

I'm glad I kept it all because I've realised I'm starting to forget things, it's just gradually fading away. I open old email correspondence and some of it triggers long lost memories. Others I have no recollection of writing at all. It's a bittersweet feeling but I like being able to look back.

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>thread about minimalism and existential questions devolves into discussion about hoarding techniques and tools and hoarder dick measuring contest
Free your mind, anon. Do you really want to wander endlessly after your death because you're too attached to material things? Refocus your energies desu

>>57459813
Stupid fucking doggo lmao.

>>57459813
How is this technology? Muh items I mindlessly hoarded serve no purpose, BUT the items are virtual so in g it goes

>>57470059
I'd say talking about technology's effects on people is /g/, or rather, /g/ enough that it could be here rather than /his/.

>>57461604
Having educational material that you will never use is less than a waste of something you will actually use as anime/series/movies?

>>57468416
podcasts et al could be redownloaded
your own pictures though not
what if you had the last copy of those ebooks though?

i just buy new drives when they get full. too much work to delete things and i only download things that i like so i dont even want to delete anything.

>>57460745
Yeah but cutting out the really good 3-5 minute portions of the 60 odd full length porn clips takes a lot of time. I've done it about 6 times in the last 18 years of broadband. Then every now and then you go on a site ripping spree and you only can stay in the mood so long to 'rate' each clip as ypu try to clean up. Still it's down to about 200gb which is good considering the 100tb I've downloaded

I don't understand keeping a porn collection. I used to have a fairly meticulously organised collection, sorted by model and scene type etc. But I just deleted it because I rarely fap to the same thing twice. I usually just go on /gif/ or tumblr, find a post I like, go to town for 20 minutes and then get on with my day.
I think I was just more obsessed with the organisation than the porn itself.

>>57470298
i only save really good videos. they are so good that i can view them many times and still like them. and i dont mean just porn. finding good videos is hard so im not going to delete them if i have found them

normally you can't remember all that stuf and you move forward on your life, but when it's all backed and stored you just repeating same sircles around that media again and again. forgetting is a miracle.

>>57460297
>>57462067
It happened to me too anon. But you know what the trigger was that made me realise my piracy/CD collection was a waste?

Fucking Spotify. I almost want to cancel my subscription and force myself to do music the old way. But I love the discovery and ease. I suppose that makes us different.

Instead, I have spotify, and started a vinyl collection. Pretty neat.

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>>57470454

I collected all of the old cartoons I watched when I was a kid and honestly, I couldn't be happier about it. At any time, I can turn my livingroom TV into a 90's and early 2000's cartoon TV station.

I'm not losing that for anything.

>>57459813
I went through the same thing when I got NAS.

We people like to hoard useless things for no good reason.

I have about 1TB of television shows, some I don't watch much and some are complete series. Could be viewed as a waste but then I had a 6 month period of limited to no internet access. I was fucking happy to have "wasted" the hard drive space on it.

>>57459813
That'll teach you not to save random bullshit you don't need and to clean up your system once in a while of stuff you dont use

>>57470195
>What if that's that last eBook

They're not important to me, that is the difference, the information any eBook carries can easily be replaced at cost, podcasts feeds are easy redownloaded if they're there yes but even then all that can easily be replaced with other content.

>>57470059
Why is it anytime we are not having a shit posting contest someone worries if it belongs on the board??

>Oh shit they're evolving we better put a stop to it

>OP realizes 95% of his media was chinese schoolgirl cartoon shit

>>57462015
>watching anime
>hobby

>>57471923
That is what I mean. What if they contain non-replaceable information as your picture does?

>>57473651
Not being funny, but if you're saving an e-book for that reason, don't bother. If preserving knowledge to such a degree became so important as that your digital copy was the only one in the world, then it's probably after a massive social collapse and there'd be no way to get it off the hardware.

>>57473651
Im the anon you replied to. I agree with >>57474096

We live in a era of abundance of information and even if you were to never go online again from this day fourth all the knowledge you could have had access to is being flooded into the physical book market under the guise of being "curated" when it's just a poor excuse to make books out of free content. You will never have a ebook that has irreplaceable information unless, society simply imploded and failed to function from this day on and even then, in Syria for example, there are underground libraries, milita men in the front lines spend their days reading books when there is no action going on, as long as you have people you will have knowledge and books we don't exactly have a single repository with irreplaceable knowledge Alexandria Library style.

>>57459813
Dunno what you're on about. I have downloading automated (well, for videos). I find satisfaction in the large media collection I've accrued, I don't actually need tv service or netflix.

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>>57472042
>watching anime
>not a hobby

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>>57459813
>get a macbook when young
>hoard about 15T of video games, animeme and movies in HFS+ formatted hard drives .
>2016
>get rid of mac, install mac drive, corrupted files every fucking where
I've been moving my files to NTFS formatted hds for the whole month and so many times I've been tempted to do what you did, but I can't. These files are all I am.

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>>57479446
>15TB
>corrupted files every fucking where
Good God man.
NTFS is hot garbage for anything larger than 2TB
I can't imagine HFS is any better.

You could get a ZFS NAS going.
You can use file system compression, dedup, and error correction in a ghetto as all array and get by safer than a pile of NTFS disks.

>>57479583
even if he was hellbent on using windows for a file server, to the point of breaking out in cold sweat over the idea of using anything else, he should at least be using ReFS
it's not up to ZFS tier, or even BTRFS tier, but at least it's got checksumming and copy-on-write

>4TB
Nigga this is just my desktop with 4 drives turned off. Usually at 30TB.
Throw in another 70 from my server.

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>>57480066
Vorgot big

>>57461690
>>thinking you can replace that thing you used to love but have outgrown with a bigger version of it

OPs Mom?

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>>57468785
>>57468956
>>57468999
I use MAFF. It's the best solution.

archives.4chan, 4plebs, Warosu, and RBT won't be up forever. Eventually they'll be gone and along with them the past. Good content gets posted from time to time and I want to keep it for future viewing.

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>>57480210
archive.org accepts archive dumps. I think that's what most of them have settled on doing in the case of catastrophe. which happens like clock work every 12 months or so to one archive or another.

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... I have a problem don't I?