I’ve been working on a video for over a month. It was only supposed to take two weeks, and here we are going on six, and it still isn’t finished. There are a few reasons for that, but one of them is that I filled up my computer’s hard drive.

I keep recording video for this project and adding it to the folder on my drive, but now that the drive is full, my computer automatically uploads the files to the cloud and then deletes them from my drive. That means that the files have to be redownloaded every time I play them when I’m editing, and as soon as I’m not actively playing the file, it gets deleted again.

For instance, I edit one segment, and then I move on to the next, and then I want to see how one flows into the next, but the first one has already been deleted, so I have to wait for it to be downloaded. It makes editing impossible, so this morning, I started moving all of the files to an external drive with more than enough space for the whole project.

Not all of the files were on my computer’s hard drive, though, so I couldn’t just drag and drop the project folder onto the external hard drive because if even one file wasn’t downloaded, none of the files would be copied. You might think the easy solution would be to download all of the files and then move them, but there wasn’t enough space for that, so I had to move them one at a time. I didn’t actually move them one at a time; I moved them in groups, but it still took all day, and when I was done, the sun was down.

It was worthwhile and necessary, though, because now I can actually edit this video again, so maybe, just maybe, it might get finished one day before I die.