How to Spring clean my dance computer?

How to Spring Clean my dance computer?

5 quick tips;

• Delete, delete, delete
• Check your folder structure
• Update your software
• Look behind the scenes for hidden files
• Now Spring clean your dance technique!

After a year of dancing online it’s time to Spring Clean your computer tech!  I’ve just mucked out my Mac and reclaimed over 360GB of storage! When I started both the fan and the wheel of doom were in overdrive.  Now it’s running super quick and smooth and I am ready for my next online dance adventure!   I’m going to be hosting Dandash’s training course and the Online Zoom Hafla Club Night live from Cairo, as well as teaching my belly dance classes on zoom.  So if your looking to Spring Clean your dance technique, here’s how to prep your online dance space first!  I work on a mac but my top tips are relevant for using zoom and all overloaded laptops and pcs; 

TIP ONE: Delete, delete, delete! After loading up on all those zoom GBs it is time to be ruthless.  Delete any unwanted recordings, if you haven’t used them yet you are not going to!  Go to your trash and empty it and set an auto empty if you haven’t already.  And don’t forget the ‘Recently Deleted’ folder, it keeps things for 30 days, so if you want things gone, gone, you need to empty here too.

TIP TWO: Check your folder structure! A bit of basic housekeeping to organise your folders pays dividends.  Check you don’t have duplicate copies of folders and review your folder strings.  Do you really need all those folders within folders?  You can easily drag and drop folders to a more direct location.

TIP THREE: Update your software! Now it’s time to freshen up your software.  If you are using zoom, open your zoom app and click on your profile picture, from the drop down list select the ‘Check for updates’ option. Check your downloads folder after and drag zoom.pkg to your trash, if you haven’t already, you don’t need to keep it.

TIP FOUR: Look behind the scenes for hidden files! Check your ‘Cache’ folder from your library folder, you can select these and drag them to your trash.  This helps protect your identity online and it also makes space as this folder tends to get clogged up.

Now your free to Spring clean your dance technique! The lockdown has given me the opportunity to host master teachers; Dandash and Khaled with my friend in Cairo Zara Dance in online workshops. I have really been able to clean up my own dance techniqiue and get rid of some lazy habits!  It has bought me so much joy and really made me feel really connected to the feeling of the dance in Egypt.  If you haven’t already, I’d really recommend trying it, why not join the Dandash Intensive Course. She is an incredible teacher and I learnt more in 2.5 hours than I have in years, very refreshing!  Or if you are new to dance why not try my Beginners course starting on 10th May on zoom.  I hope these dance computer tech tips have been helpful and freed you up to enjoy dancing!  See you soon on zoom.  Arabella xxx