sundance-communications.com/forum Forums Computers & Programming Computers, Software, Accessories compressing c drive what are the disadvantges ?

This was a great question even if it's slightly off topic.

If you want to store some files in GMail you can start a new message (click compose), and then attach files to the new message. If you use a Chrome/Chromium browser it should let you select multiple files at once.

Gmail will auto-save the draft as it goes, so you can just minimize it and let it work.

The problem is that you suddenly have all these draft messages hanging around that aren't super easy to locate images/files with. You can use Google docs for this also, and it may offer some better sorting/management, but they only give you 1gb of storage vs the 7.5gb with GMail.

There was also a program called GMail File System or "GFS" and it was a windows plugin that would show hidden draft messages containing files, as a single file system. So you could use that to give you drag and drop access to your GMail storage, but GMail states in their TOS that this is taboo so I stopped.

I'm sure there's some great private way to smartly store images online without any quality loss. What about Flicker?

I would tell her to just get a cheap external drive. Ask her what is more precious, her pictures or $30 or less for an external hard-drive?

For Instance: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136606

And if she doesn't understand, god bless you. You officially have more patience then I do

to update , I was able to get in with a free trial off log me in rescue .she already had a large external HD and I was able to clear 21gb of the 66 gb drive remotely between moving things to it and cleaning up junk

I was there last weekend and was going to change the 66gb drive out but never got to it or some other computer stuff I was going to do ....

those cheap external drives are nice I just got myself one to carry manuals and stuff on because I keep losing the little thumb drives

The disk compression may work, but it comes at the cost of performance. There will be a noticeable performance hit to the computer with it enabled. I almost always disable it on client computers due to this fact. If the client needs disk space, I either recommend a larger internal harddrive or get an external drive and move data to that.

https://www.help2go.com/Tutorials/Computer_Basics/Disk_Compression.html

To turn off disk compression (in windows xp), right click on the drive in My computer and select properties. Then uncheck "compress this drive to save space". Then say yes to uncompress all files. Then wait an hour or two depending on how many files. If the process gets interrupted, you can manually uncompress those files yourself from a dos prompt.
"c:
cd \
compact /u /s /i /a *.*