Clean Up Day
I’ve been working on a bunch of applied research projects that I would love to talk about – but you know the nature of the game: I have to keep these under wraps.
Whenever I do work of this nature that isn’t necessarily for general consumption, I keep in in My Documents in the Visual Studio project folder where it was created by default. I also am more careful about my backups. For backups, I use Macrium Reflect, which has performed admirably. I should consider getting the full version that does incremental backups, but since I don’t, it means that every backup image includes all the obj files and assemblies that are kicking around my projects. I was about to start on an app to do that work, but a quick trip to CodeProject turned up a tool to specifically clean up Visual Studio workspaces. Hooray! I built it, ran it and lopped of 7G of space hanging around doing nothing.