My No-Space Days

NO MATTER HOW HARD I try, I'm running out of space on my hard drive. It's a problem originating with Dropbox, the cloud-based storage program that I share with dozens of people. I have 50 GB of cloud space on Dropbox. Students have 2GB of swap space unless they back into my space directly. I'm using 20% of my allocation while students share files in my space (screenshot at left). Since this is the end of the term, students using Dropbox to chop and change audio projects end up dropping their work into my hard drive between editing sessions. And since an average file weighs more than 400 MB, I'm losing gigabytes of my local storage space as the files come and go through my C Drive. Even though it's a little annoying, it's worth the experience of seeing my Windows XP system tray bubble up with a stream of warnings about having "very low" storage space. My solution: remap my Dropbox storage space onto a pocket-sized terabyte drive and work away. My plan: ask students in next semester's Internet Social Networking module to write 1200 words about their shared space experience. Their cloud-based collaborative work has been one of the most beneficial unexpected by-products of first year third level creative multimedia.

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