A sort of spring cleaning
Jun. 6th, 2005 12:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sharanI guess knowing you're leaving a job after 4 years really makes you think about things. Friday I realized that if I was going to be leaving I had 4 years of e-mail I needed to start going through and dumping. I had over 14,000 e-mails in my e-mail archive here, and converting Groupwise archives to Eudora will probably be a pain (and do I really need most of this crap?) so most of it's going to wind up dumped. By the time I left Friday I was down to 4000 messages, and I'm under 3000 now.
So I went home determined to do the same thing with Eudora. I'm on a ton of mailing lists (most of which I haven't even been reading) and many of them have e-mails piled up back 2 years or more. When I open Eudora and have several dozen mailboxes open (I keep any mailboxes with unread messages open so I'll know what I haven't read), and so much e-mail in each that it's going to take a while to go through it all, it's no wonder I'm so bad at answering e-mails! I realized recently that when I spot something when checking webmail from work I can actually respond to it, but at home I'm really terrible about responding to anything:(.
So this weekend I went through and I figure I trashed about 35,000 messages (yes, you read that right, and I still have a way to go, too). It was well over 100 megs of disk space, too. It took a long time even if I was being pretty ruthless about it. I still have a bunch of mailboxes open, but it's not QUITE as overwhelming. I even did a little cleaning up in my room.
I really need to work on getting organized. I've been thinking it would be nice if I could line up enough freelance work to pay the bills while I'm in school so I don't have to worry so much about getting a job where I go in to an office. But I'd have to be a lot more organized than I am now to pull that off!
So I went home determined to do the same thing with Eudora. I'm on a ton of mailing lists (most of which I haven't even been reading) and many of them have e-mails piled up back 2 years or more. When I open Eudora and have several dozen mailboxes open (I keep any mailboxes with unread messages open so I'll know what I haven't read), and so much e-mail in each that it's going to take a while to go through it all, it's no wonder I'm so bad at answering e-mails! I realized recently that when I spot something when checking webmail from work I can actually respond to it, but at home I'm really terrible about responding to anything:(.
So this weekend I went through and I figure I trashed about 35,000 messages (yes, you read that right, and I still have a way to go, too). It was well over 100 megs of disk space, too. It took a long time even if I was being pretty ruthless about it. I still have a bunch of mailboxes open, but it's not QUITE as overwhelming. I even did a little cleaning up in my room.
I really need to work on getting organized. I've been thinking it would be nice if I could line up enough freelance work to pay the bills while I'm in school so I don't have to worry so much about getting a job where I go in to an office. But I'd have to be a lot more organized than I am now to pull that off!
