Friday, May 24, 2013

Blog Misc -- 2013 May 24 FR

Kiwi6.com, a file host that I have relied upon greatly since March of 2011, today changed their rules about the amount of disc space a free account can use. When I was first checking them out, I searched diligently for any restrictions in that regard and found none. The only limiting factor for me with this site was that they had a maximum file size of 100 MB.

I learned today that since March of 2011 I had uploaded over 81 GB of files there. Their new cap on disc space for free account users is 2 GB. I am unable to upload there again until I have deleted enough files to be below the 2 GB threshold.

File deletion is a tedious, time-consuming process. I spent much of the afternoon and most of the evening working on that, and I have been able to reduce my usage from 81 GB to 32 GB. My right hand and wrist are in a good deal of pain, and I am probably finished with this for tonight. I will work on it more tomorrow.

Kiwi6.com is a good file host from which to download, so I don't want to give up on using them, but I will have to see how much of a problem keeping my "balance" below 2 GB will be.

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