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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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 I, too, will be working...Submitted by Berko on March 31, 2006 - 7:27am.
I, too, will be working on some filesystem overhaul this weekend. Going tonight to Fry's to pick up a 300GB Seagate USB/FW hard drive (for $149 and no rebate! W00T!). First thing I will do is get my music, movies, and photos off my HD so Emory will bitching at me for it. ;) Next order of business will be to set up a backup schedule. I read a tip on using Folder Actions for this to monitor when you plug in the drive, so I'll be doing that. I use my .Mac and Spymac accounts for backing up my Library, documents, etc. just about every day. I think 300GB will be large enough for a little while. By the time it's not, I should be in a place to buy a couple terabytes of NAS. :D » POSTED IN:
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