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My NAS arrived today and after some poor documentation and frustration, it’s set up and running fine. I’m currently copying over about 400G to it — which is taking quite a while. I’m sure it’ll be running well past the time I head to bed.

That aside, I’m definitely seeing a lot of junk that I probably can/should delete since I’m never going to use it anymore. As a rule, I don’t delete images that I shoot unless they’re just really bad shots. I also save all of my email and random documents — anything that’s volatile. But I also tend to save lots of apps and installers for various tools.

While I’m definitely a pack rat at heart, I know that I don’t need a copy of PowerDVD 4 for Windows. Nor do I need a copy of 1stPage v2 that has been sitting there for years unused. There’s more than a few examples of stuff like that. SQL Server 2000? Yeah, definitely don’t need that anymore.

Most of it dates back to my more Windows-centric days. My workstation is now OS X and I use various linuxes at work exclusively. I just don’t need this software anymore.

I’ll do a big purge sometime this weekend after I’ve gotten everything sorted and copied over.