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How do you organize your files?
2010-09-17, 4:09 PM #1
I'm organizing my files for easy backup and storage, and I was wondering how everyone here likes to keep their personal/professional files organized? I'm sure it's going to vary based on what we individually use our computers for.
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2010-09-17, 4:19 PM #2
Pictures: By date usually

Videos: By category.

Comics: By publisher, then Writer/Artist depending on why i got it.

everything else: whatever.
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2010-09-17, 4:35 PM #3
I throw anything super-important in my Dropbox.

Documents includes legal/tax, my various novels/stories, and a couple other things. Public has all my linkage crap. Applications has my various mobile app projects. Websites has all my website projects.

Otherwise, I have music in a zune folder on one drive. I have anime on another drive dedicated to it. I have movies on another drive dedicated to that.
2010-09-17, 4:51 PM #4
Subversion repositories.
2010-09-17, 4:57 PM #5
folder trees.

For music, folder for each letter, folder inside that for each band.
For pictures, year-->month-->event
For files, as organized as I can make it. So organization (parkour, school, work, self)-->the year if necessary (school)-->project-->whatever is necessary after that
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2010-09-17, 5:19 PM #6
Originally posted by Jon`C:
Subversion repositories.


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2010-09-17, 5:30 PM #7
Yes because Git is useful for binary files
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2010-09-17, 5:40 PM #8
poorly
2010-09-17, 5:48 PM #9
I like Mercurial.
2010-09-17, 6:22 PM #10
Me too, Git's a bit unintuitive
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2010-09-17, 6:29 PM #11
C:\Games
D:\Media\Videos
D:\Media\Music
(D:\ is a network drive)
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2010-09-17, 6:40 PM #12
I put documents in the "Documents" folder, music in the "Music" folder, photos in the "Pictures" folder & so on. I really only bother backing up documents & photos (not much else is important to me) & not media (movies/music) because it's so readily available. Is this what you meant?
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2010-09-17, 7:01 PM #13
Midget, Shemale, Tranny, .........ohwaitwhutarewetalking about?

Uh, I got a My Documents folder. And a My Downloads folder. Everything is in either one of those.
2010-09-17, 7:30 PM #14
Pictures are in by trip or by person for random shots.
Documents are stored by topic.
Music is roughly by genre and then by artist.

There's a guy at work who keeps all of his word files in one big folder. Inside is a folder for each letter of the alphabet and then documents for a given topic are stored in the folder for their first letter (the Word\B\ folder has "batteries" and "bus" folders). Excel files are stored in a similar tree. :carl:
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2010-09-17, 7:43 PM #15
I had the pleasure of repairing a desktop machine where 'someone' had decided to organize all the files on the hard drive into folders by type. All the .exe in one folder, etc.

They still do not understand why their 'progrumms' stopped 'walking'.
2010-09-17, 7:48 PM #16
Originally posted by Squirrel King:
Midget, Shemale, Tranny, .........ohwaitwhutarewetalking about?


That is no way to organize family photos.
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2010-09-17, 8:31 PM #17
I don't.
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2010-09-17, 9:27 PM #18
I've heard the one before, I'm also quite sure that is impossible on a modern OS, it would stop you.
Maybe on like, win95
2010-09-17, 9:55 PM #19
No, I literally put no effort at all into organizing my files. A great deal of things end up in my documents... stuff is littered about my desktop with abandon. I don't know how to find half the crap on this computer.
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2010-09-17, 10:02 PM #20
Folder trees, until Windows 7 started shoving Libraries down my throat. Now it's just a cluster**** of me attempting to maintain my old system but failing as I try to adapt.
2010-09-17, 10:24 PM #21
For me, I have one folder on my desktop that's called CRAP. I just store anything new in there until further notice.

All my USB drives are organized according to what I need them for (ie. school, job, etc.)
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2010-09-17, 10:44 PM #22
music is the only thing i have organized

Q:\Music\Artist\Album.ape (each album is one file)

for stuff not yet re-ripped to lossless
Q:\Music\Artist\Album\tracknumber - title.extension

everything else is just a poorly organized mess of files
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2010-09-17, 10:58 PM #23
Porn on the desktop, music and movies in their respective folders on my D:\ drive.
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2010-09-18, 10:55 AM #24
i don't

Organizing files is one of those things that you can spend hours doing and then when you're done you're like.. "why the **** did I just spend so much time doing that.. and for what?"

Huuuuge waste of time.
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2010-09-18, 11:27 AM #25
I've been using windows 7 libraries a lot. very handy. My current setup is:

  • Downloads
  • Freelance
  • Guitar
  • Music
  • Pictures
  • Projects
  • Wallpaper


Then some Miscellaneous folders I still need to organize.
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2010-09-18, 2:02 PM #26
What's the difference between Freelance and Projects? Personal as opposed to paid, I assume.
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2010-09-18, 2:33 PM #27
Everything always ends up in a folder on the desktop anyway.
2010-09-18, 2:49 PM #28
Originally posted by JediKirby:
What's the difference between Freelance and Projects? Personal as opposed to paid, I assume.


Yeah, freelance are client backups. Projects are my personal projects. Its easier having them separated.
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2010-09-19, 1:12 PM #29
I organize alphabetically by the third letter of each file name. Separate folder for each letter. These folders go in My Documents so it stays neat.
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2010-09-19, 1:46 PM #30
Everything is thrown into My Documents and sorted by date.
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2010-09-20, 10:04 PM #31
~/my documents/downloads
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2010-09-20, 11:07 PM #32
My file organization needs are pretty elaborate (I use a laptop, desktop, home server and lab machines, each running one or more of Windows, OSX and Linux) so I really couldn't survive without source control. Even if your needs aren't that elaborate though, I highly recommend it. Ever work on something and wish you could go back to an older version? VCS lets you, and you get a backup for free at the same time.
2010-09-21, 6:12 AM #33
Originally posted by Jon`C:
My file organization needs are pretty elaborate (I use a laptop, desktop, home server and lab machines, each running one or more of Windows, OSX and Linux) so I really couldn't survive without source control. Even if your needs aren't that elaborate though, I highly recommend it. Ever work on something and wish you could go back to an older version? VCS lets you, and you get a backup for free at the same time.


*cough* so does Dropbox, and it works on all those systems with nearly 0 configuration (just a log in and a quick installer run).

Obviously not a replacement for proper source control when you need multiple people working on a project (although Dropbox does support sharing folders, it doesn't do merging of conflicts), but the ease of use and complete "set and forget" way of syncing is brilliant.
2010-09-21, 6:39 AM #34
The closest I get to organizing things is sweeping through the machine and deleting crap once a month.
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2010-09-21, 6:59 AM #35
save to desktop
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2010-09-21, 7:11 AM #36
Someday when I have time I'd like to setup a revision control. As of now I simply have my files organized on my external hdd, if I need to access remotely I use RDP.

Applications -> os -> app genre
Files & Docs (I keep everything from 3d models, to JK modding stuff to my resume)
Pictures -> categories/date
Music -> Genre -> artist
Videos -> movie/tv -> title
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2010-09-21, 8:38 AM #37
Originally posted by Cool Matty:
*cough* so does Dropbox, and it works on all those systems with nearly 0 configuration (just a log in and a quick installer run).

Only for 30 days, I think. For most people Dropbox is enough. I mean, I could teach my mom to use Dropbox. I couldn't teach her to use Subversion.
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2010-09-21, 2:53 PM #38
2gb of storage free on Dropbox. i dont know where you get this 30 days stuff from. unless i'm grandfathered in from the beta.
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2010-09-21, 3:52 PM #39
I keep nothing on my desktop if I can help it. My Program Files directory isn't too organized, but I will clean my Start menu by hand all the time. Using the W7 libraries, but in non-default locations.
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2010-09-21, 5:18 PM #40
Dropbox sounds like a decent service for most people, but if you already have a server or web hosting it seems pretty pointless.
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