Re: off-topic: c: drive filling up

[Judith Davidsen jdavidsen@xxxxxxxx]

Thanks to everyone who responded to my desperate whine--you
started the little gray cells working again, and I may have
come up with a solution based on something Jeff mentioned
below: Paint.

I had been saving the emailed images to the D: drive, which
has 1.47gb free, but could not send them out again because I
kept getting the message "Microsoft Photo Editor Cannot
Load CMC.dll." I downloaded a CMC.dll I found on the web,
but still got the same message about not being able to load
it.

After reading Jeff's message, I opened one of the images
from D: in Paint, and was able to send it, at least to
myself. I've also sent it to the client to make sure they
can open it (cross fingers, cross toes, cross eyes).

So far, the sources for these projects have not sent
anything larger than 6,000kb, and most are way smaller, so I
think the D: drive just might be the ideal storage place as
long as I can send in Paint. (I'm assuming the ratio of
emailed images to slides/chromes/cds/zip disks/glossies will
be the same over the next few weeks as it was over the past
few, and that the email resolutions will continue being
dismal.)

Of course, if anyone knows how to get the CMC.dll loaded, it
would save me a step.

Again, thanks for your help--a weight has been lifted.

Judith Davidsen


Peregrine@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> Judith Davidsen writes:
>
> ≪ The problem is that these images fill up what's left of my
> C:drive. I spent 5 hours last night weeding out enough to
> free up 574mb of the 1.99gb on C:, but at the rate things
> are going the drive is going to be filled again before the
> end of the week. Getting rid of things like cookies doesn't
> make a dent. And even if I delete some of the images from
> email, Netscape 4.78 has already deposited on C: every
> single thing it delivered. ≫
>
> STOP! I am a photographer and I understand this problem very well. Simply
> stated, photographs of reasonably good quality for publication are
> necessarily large. As already noted, external storage of some kind would be
> the ideal solution. You have several options, none particularly cheap but
> any of them justifiable expenses if this is something you'll have an ongoing
> need to do.
>
> Don't store any more images on your primary drive than absolutely necessary.
> Keep them there while you are manipulating them (in Photoshop, Paint Shop
> Pro, or some other image editing software), and archive them to a permanent
> or semi-permanent storage medium after the manipulations are done.
>
> A few of your options: a Zip drive (not to be confused with Zip compression
> software, these drives use "floppies" that hold up to 250 MB each); a CD
> burner (about 650 MB), which has the advantage of being a more stable optical
> storage medium unaffected by magnetic fields you might encounter if you
> carelessly laid a handful of disks atop a stereo speaker or the like; or a
> simple transfer of files ASAP to a computer with more available storage space.
>
> In my experience, a high-quality TIFF scan big enough for a full-bleed
> tabloid cover would be somewhere in the neighborhood of 25-30 megabytes. It
> would be imprudent to keep more than a few of these on a laptop computer with
> a 2-gigabyte hard drive.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Jeff Seager