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HDD Folder oranization
enine | Feb 21 2006
How is everyone organizing their electronic data? I started out years ago with MS Outlook and hit the 2G limit early on so I ended up having to archive data monthly which resulted in a folder structure based around monthly archives like this: 2006 So I started following this structure and would store other files such as bank statements, pictures, invoices, etc in those folders. Problem now is finding anything I have to wait for a search to crawl through all those folders or remember when I did something or have some sort of index to it. I usually end up just hunting through the various years and months looking for what I want rather than keeping an index up to date so I'm looking for better suggestions as to how to organize inportant files. 25 Comments
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 Here's mine: c:\games <-- all my...Submitted by lolindrath on February 21, 2006 - 12:08pm.
Here's mine:
c:\games <-- all my games, makes it easy to see if I don't play
one enough and it needs uninstalled
c:\download <-- everything that doesn't have a home yet
c:\Media
\Video
\Music <-- music and audiobooks are separated so I
can right click and play everything in the folder
\Audiobooks
\eBooks
\My Documents
\My Pictures
c:\srclib <-- useful source code I want to hold onto
This is combined with a desktop search program and SlickRun for quick access to these folders. The My Documents folder gets auto backed up onto another computer in my network. The rest is mostly disposable since I own cd's/dvd's for most of the content on my computer. --Lolindrath » POSTED IN:
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