[GEEK] Half a million files. Oy.
Jul. 4th, 2004 02:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jducoeurY'know, I remember my first hard drive: a boat anchor that held five meg. At the time, it seemed enormous, but it occurs to me that I knew pretty much all of the files on it.
Well, I just installed our latest backup solution: a Maxtor One Touch hard drive -- not perfect, but better than most home options. In the course of the initial backup, Norton noticed a couple of files sitting in the recycle bin that had virii in them; just to be safe, I cleaned the bin and reran a full system scan.
Sheesh. My C drive, which isn't a third full, has over five hundred thousand files on it. There are entire deep directory trees whose purpose is completely unknown to me. The old-fashioned programmer in me is really rather disturbed by that: I'm the kind of person who likes to understand my systems right down to the assembly level, and the notion that I have only the most tenuous grasp on the contents of my home computer is unsettling...
Well, I just installed our latest backup solution: a Maxtor One Touch hard drive -- not perfect, but better than most home options. In the course of the initial backup, Norton noticed a couple of files sitting in the recycle bin that had virii in them; just to be safe, I cleaned the bin and reran a full system scan.
Sheesh. My C drive, which isn't a third full, has over five hundred thousand files on it. There are entire deep directory trees whose purpose is completely unknown to me. The old-fashioned programmer in me is really rather disturbed by that: I'm the kind of person who likes to understand my systems right down to the assembly level, and the notion that I have only the most tenuous grasp on the contents of my home computer is unsettling...