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I'm trying to set up Parallels for my new host. It's interesting, it comes with basically nothing; I suppose that's because it gets set up with basically a clean slate. Cool, but I'm now trying to research how exactly to go about starting to use it. Good stuff though.

So I've been struggling with this for a while now, and since it was damn near impossible to find on the Drupal Answers Stack Exchange, Drupal forums, or on the internet in general, I'm posting it here so that someone else doesn't rip their hair out.

I had a need to be able to do a custom menu in Drupal 7, and so I had to go looking for a way to customize the HTML output for the main menu. Unfortunately, it's REALLY hard to find a solution that works, but I stumbled across one and am posting it here so that when I need to find it again, I can get to it quickly.

Search phrases so that other people can find it as well:

• Add span tags before menu items
• arbitrary HTML in menu
• custom HTML in main menu

I hope that's all I need for the time being

So I've decided to port my blog over to Drupal 7, because Drupal is awesome. WordPress is cool and everything, but I need a place to play around with Drupal a bit more, and this is the most public place I care to do it. I mean, who looks at my blog anyway?

The old CCK module has been folded into the core of Drupal 7, and I can see why. Imagine being able to create any content type, on the fly. Blog Post? No problem. Product Item? Zippy. This is some powerful stuff. Displaying it on the other hand, is a job for Views.

Bought Pro Drupal 7 Development last night.

Learning enough about Drupal to make a custom home page with Drupal is intense. I think I finally got it though!

I found this post here:

http://www.unixtutorial.org/2008/03/find-large-files-and-directories/

that helped me out a bunch, and in the comments, the author responds to the question how to check the directory size, and then narrow down from directory to directory from there. Turns out my problem was backup retention; 3 separate copies of backups was choking me.

So I had to create a system where users could register, login, and upload files. The system would need to show each user his/her files and no one else's, and get in touch with the administrator to let them know a new file was uploaded.

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