So, late last month, either on a weekend or a snow day from work, I finally decided to upgrade the operating system for my computer. Monterey came out in October, but I wanted to wait until a was sure there were no known major problems with it. I was supposed to have done this earlier in January, but I kept putting it off. Anyway, I was getting sick of the constant notifications, so I started the download. I had over an hour of free time. There was little worry of losing power or internet. And I started the process. The download may have actually took less than the hour suggested. I all had left to do was click the icon to install. Nothing happened. Apparently, I didn't have enough memory storage left to complete the process. To the best of my knowledge, the new system is supposed to overwrite the old one. I thought that was what happened during the previous installs. This time around, there wasn't enough. I then began to come up with a plan on how to get more memory. I deleted old documents and pictures that had old lived their usefulness. I got rid of an old game that I never played anymore because the free trial had ended. Still not enough. I looked over the storage capacity to see what was taking up so much space. Of course, documents were the majority. I had papers from my classes, information and other peoples work I had commented on, as well as the Word versions of my own papers. These were easily deleted. [I'm pretty sure my originals are still safe. Some of them were quite good and cold be used as bases for applications and other submissions.]. Next, old downloaded catalogs for my store. All the most recent are gone. However, most of the rest were PDFs of books I bought. Hey, they were cheaper than having them printed and delivered. Faster too. Theoretically, the website has a library feature that would allow me to download copies again if I lose the originals. I'm a little scared to try just yet, but it is an option. The next biggest drain was called 'music creation.' Yep, the Garage Band app that I have barely used needs tons of memory to store all of the beats and rhythms I might need. Now, I could delete this app, if possible, to free up a huge chunk of memory. It was pre-installed, so I'm unsure if I can delete it. It's free on the App Store, so I could always get it back, if I even wanted to, but I don't know how it will work. Even the Mail app is taking up some space. Now, I almost always look at my email from the site, not from my Mac's connection to it. The only time it really mattered was when my account got taken down a few days due to the installation of new features. However, the Mail app still collected all of my emails. I now have hundreds of emails stored somewhere on my Mac, many of which I had already deleted from my account. I even saw some from before I got my computer on here, ones I had thought I had already deleted years ago. I've been trying to go though them, but it is a multi-step process to do so. What's worse is that more get added every time I open the app, even accidentally. I've been looking into sending some things onto iCloud, but I am still trying to figure out how the process works and what would happen if I delete the original. I've been looking into outside storage too, but I am so computer illiterate that I'm falling behind on that front. Anyway, sometime before the month is out, I am hoping to finally get upgraded. I'm never going to get my arrow cursor color changed to UK blue without it. That's just one of the minor features that the upgrade provides.
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