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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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 Buy anyway to get back...Submitted by enine on March 31, 2006 - 6:38am.
Buy anyway to get back to the original topic. It took my most of a weekend to reorganize my drive. I bought a 120g laptop drive and put it in my laptop then put the 60g that I had in the laptop before in an USB enclosure and copied all my data over. Got rid of all my yearly folders and organized the data better. Made a folder for music, one for picturs, one for documents and one for reference material. Music if of course music, all the cd's I have ripped into mp3's and the few mp3's I've had to download because the cd isn't available to buy. Puctures I moved all the pictures from the year/month folders into one big pictured folder then sorted by activity. Documents is all the documents I have created and projects I'm working on, reference is all the stuff someone else has written, be it books I have downloaded, web sites I have saved, whatever. » POSTED IN:
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