Friday, 2 March 2012

Twenty Million Shoe Boxes on One Computer!

Have you ever loved and hated something in equal measure at the same time?  I LOVE my Mac. It's getting a bit old now but that's ok, I am familiar with it and it lets me do everything I need. However! It has been getting increasingly slower and I have finally worked out that if I take some old stuff off it, that will make room for new stuff. A bit like me, really - new stuff goes into my head and pushed the old stuff out! At least with a computer you can CHOOSE which old stuff to put out!

Anyway - I now understand it all. Jon, at Bollicomp in Adelphi Mill has finally got me to understand.  1 kilobyte = a shoe box. 1 megabite = 1,000 shoe boxes. 1 gigabyte = 1,000,000 shoe boxes.

Therefore, it is taking AGES for my poor old Mac to shift 20,000,000 shoe boxes onto an external hard drive so I can make room for all the new GORGEOUS glass photographs I can put on of my smalti!

It is just a waiting game, folks. In the meantime, I need to go break glass................

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