Saturday, July 16, 2005
What Do You Do With Installers?
Posted by Jon Westfall in "THOUGHT" @ 06:05 AM
Sitting on my desktop right now are several Pocket PC and Smartphone install files. These installers will be carefully moved to a special folder I have labled "Mobile Device Apps" and kept for most likely eternity. When a new version comes out, I'll end up copying the new installer into the folder, and unless the name of the installer is the same, I'll now have an old and new copy. The folder gets bigger.
And when I get a new device, the lunacy continues: I don't go splunking through my folder to find the newest installer for each app - I go download each one again (In case there have been minor revisions or bug fixes). Now I add another batch of installers to the folder.
Why do I do this? I'm not quite sure. I think it's the thought "What if I need to setup my device again and I don't have access to the internet". This scenario is pretty unlikely. Maybe it's just a throwback from the days of dialup where I held the motto "If I took the time to download this thing, I might as well keep it so I don't have to redownload it".
And the folder grows. Installers, sprite backup files, themes, SDKs (Man they take up space) and more. At current count it's up to around 3 GB all by itself 8O
So my poll question, dear readers, is what do you do with installers? Do you just delete them and redownload later? Do you keep them forever? Do you actually have a filing system for them? Vote and post your experiences, and if any of you have any suggestions for me - let me know!
And when I get a new device, the lunacy continues: I don't go splunking through my folder to find the newest installer for each app - I go download each one again (In case there have been minor revisions or bug fixes). Now I add another batch of installers to the folder.
Why do I do this? I'm not quite sure. I think it's the thought "What if I need to setup my device again and I don't have access to the internet". This scenario is pretty unlikely. Maybe it's just a throwback from the days of dialup where I held the motto "If I took the time to download this thing, I might as well keep it so I don't have to redownload it".
And the folder grows. Installers, sprite backup files, themes, SDKs (Man they take up space) and more. At current count it's up to around 3 GB all by itself 8O
So my poll question, dear readers, is what do you do with installers? Do you just delete them and redownload later? Do you keep them forever? Do you actually have a filing system for them? Vote and post your experiences, and if any of you have any suggestions for me - let me know!
