Bought a $50 external hard drive to organize my mods, now I have 4 of them

Last month I grabbed a 2TB drive on sale thinking I'd finally sort my Skyrim mod folder. Three weeks later I'm staring at four different drives spread across my desk, each labeled 'DO NOT DELETE' with a sharpie. The original $50 turned into $200 because I kept filling them up and buying more. I still have 8,000 unmodded game backups from 2012 that I swear I'll delete someday. How does everyone else handle the 'I might need this later' panic with digital clutter?

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hannahs7113h ago

idk man, at what point did you realize you were just collecting drives instead of actually organizing the mods? was it when you ran out of USB ports or when the third one showed up?

graytorres11h ago

The USB port thing is definitely real, but for me it was when I had three different drives labeled 'mods v2', 'mods FINAL', and 'mods FINAL ACTUALLY THIS TIME' and I couldn't remember which one had the texture packs and which one had the script fixes. That's the moment you realize you're not organizing anything, you're just making backups of backups and hoping you remember which folder is which. Plus the little label stickers start peeling off and then you're basically playing roulette every time you plug one in.