Tuesday, March 29, 2016

The End Of My Love Affair With SD cards, Migrate To The Cloud?


My now defunct SanDisk Ultra 64GB Micro SD XC I

Sorry if the title is cheesy. Seriously though, up until today I was the most ardent fan of [micro] SD cards.The reason was simple: be in total control of my data. Along with that was being able to simply pull it and insert it into whatever else device I have without the need to reformat. The relationship was beautiful, non-complicated, and stress-free. So you can already guess that I hated with passion Apple's Iphones since heydays, Google's new Nexus line-ups, and surprisingly Samsung when it announced that the Galaxy S6 will not support micro SDs.  After today's incident and the fact that I despised smartphones that didn't have SD support, I guess the joke was on me. 

Comedian: It's all a Joke
Well the story is that

Monday, March 21, 2016

SSD drive partition is full but shouldn't be - Reclaim Missing Space



Earlier tonight I noticed one of my dedicated SSD partitions started to run out of room again. I had this issue for couple months now, but because I had ample of space left, I didn't think much of it. Well, I decided to run WinDirstat one more time to see if I had missed something. If you don't know the program, WinDirstat is a fantastic visualization tool for your files and folders. Very nice for visual people like myself, check out a screenshot below.



Monday, March 14, 2016

MKV Files Keep Being Locked by Windows Explorer - Fix


Solution down there

Finally found a fix to an issue that was giving me quite a migraine. For an unknown reason, I wasn't able to move or rename my MKV files. I kept receiving the error that the file was locked by Windows Explorer.
I came across