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RE: Not trying to beat up on you

And of course I.T. skills are not necessarily programming skills...

Understood. I am, however, a high level programmer who used to write supply chain applications and custom modifications rigidly adhering to company conventions to minimize intrusion to base code. And thoroughly loved writing algorithms. I began in 1980 when memory was scarce and processors were comparatively slow in the minicomputer world. One's code necessarily had to be concise and efficient. In that world, available program and data space per user task was about 16k. All files were stored contiguously with OS stuff located in the lowest sectors and all available space at the top. Backups and restores were based on sector boundaries rather than directory entries. Didn't I say in an earlier post I was a bit OCD about this? ;)

Today, I conduct product demos and training so those skills have become stale.

I guess it's never too late to start good disk organization. When I semi-retired my Win7 box last year with a MacMini, I also purchased a NAS and store all my user data there. I use only about 50 GB of the Mac's 256 GB SSD strictly for the OS and applications. And maintain offline images for each box should one fail, go wonky or get infected with ransomware - which has happened once.

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