Digital File Cleanup
2025-05-24 @ 6:48am
Hi
I'm writing these posts when the site is not even online yet.
It's a calming mood, writing posts offline 
Recently my focus has been on digital data cleanup - and I'm not doing a very good job!
I keep spawning new accounts for various places, only to not delete past accounts
so I end up drowning in a mountain of accounts! 
not to mention the files - I have 21,000+ files in my screenshots folder now
And to make it worse all my project files are all de-synced across all the backup locations 
It does make one want to delete all files and online presence to feel clean and without noise
First time counting my personal files, I apparently have 73k!
These are all files from 2013 onwards - game saves, screenshots, coding project files, drawings, archives of games!
What would we miss the most if we were to lose all the files?
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I think "good memories" screenshots.
I should make a photo album of them soon!
Below are the years with the number of screenshots I took each year:
- 2025: 827
- 2024: 6,841
- 2023: 5,216
- 2022: 2,922
- 2021: 2,230
- 2020: 2,510
- 2019: 1,731
- 2018: 572
- 2017: 268
- 2016: 426
- 2015: 285
- 2014: 412
- 2013: 152
It's an interesting trend
You can clearly see the point where I started my descent into terminal online-ness, gradually getting worse, and then basically disappearing this year 
This year I've stopped taking as many screenshots because
- I work more hours
- I have a real life person now that I go outside with 1-2 times a week
- I've stopped talking to people online. I used to have the blessing of being able to talk to 12 - 17 people every week, for hours. It was really fun. These days it's down to 1 or 2. I don't notice it because
- My sense of time has greatly changed for unknown reasons. I feel like a tree watching time pass.
A tree! In a good way? I do feel like I've developed fully as a person this year. A complete adult person.
I'm proud of how far I've come and I've accepted all that will happen.
todo!
- screenshots treasurebox by year
- screenshots treasurebox by friend