#whattokeep

[doxandpix]

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[jamesmergy]

What to keep from your phone?

I know, and odd title.  Today I was pulled into my google cloud /  drive for a work related function.  In doing so I was faced yet again with the issue of my phone running out of space and what to do about it.

Its just not that simple.  To put a parenting and family twist on it, its real hard deciding what not to keep.  Keeping in mind the sage principle that more is not always more.  I mean you cant keep everything, you should not keep everything, simply too much to keep.  So, what do you get rid of?  What is your filter?  Criteria?  Measure of worth?

Hmmm, let me say that pictures of my wife and kids top the list.  My dogs rank, social events, trips.  My kids are out of high school now, no more sporting event pics.  The rest?  Look at them again, one last time, smile and let them go.  Flushhhhhhhh....swirl swirl swirl.  Ditto with the videos.  What to keep?  A few, with the additional rule of if its over 60 seconds, shoot, 45 seconds even 30, dump it.

My phone is old.  It has 8GB of storage.  I could upgrade my phone and probably double my storage and not have a space problem.  But, that is really only kicking the can down the road.

Make your decision and move the keepers to your google cloud or some other cloud storage service.  In google case, their product is currently called drive.  Use your google drive service - free storage - currently 15 GB, free - as long as you have created a google email.

Cool.  Copy your stuff there.  Make some folders and move the files to your cloud then delete them from your phone.  If you create a folder on your computer, copy the keepers to it and upload the folder to the cloud, even better - you can do bunches at a time that way.

Now, when I want to add older pics to my blog post, I can browse to my drive space, rather than my phone.  Here goes, something from my google drive space...

Fish sticks sam and dillon, alaska cruze

derek in alaska...

sammy and luna at the manassas civil ware battlefield. (aka - bull run)

Joe at the end of volleyball career ...

I actually has to download images from my cloud to my local hard drive and then browse to it from here.  In other words, I was not able to, could not figure out how to or if I could, browse directly in my cloud space from this blog.  When you attempt a file insert in this software - the software browses the local system, the local hard drive and any other drives you may have mapped in your windows environment, BUT, you cannot browse to your cloud space, since its well, in the cloud and not on your local drive.  This may be something I am missing now or something that will come in future Windows software versions.  

One final note.  After I finished moving my keepers to my cloud and removing them from my phone, I only gained about 1.5 GB.  That’s something, but I remember a while back having about 60-70 % of my storage capacity on my phone free.  Powers of induction and reasoning suggest that its the apps and upgrades to your phone OS that are eating up your space.  That sucks.  What could be worse than loosing storage capacity on your phone NOT to your stuff but to system - software stuff.  The software and all it feature bloat gets pushed to my phone - lots of trips to the app store for upgrades to apps....ugh!

The end.