 How do you organize your files, Fediverse? I have accumulated lots of stuff over the years: photos and videos, school and university documents, job files, private development projects, video projects, music, screenshots — all of which I want to keep backed up. The problem I have is the directory structure. How would you organize all this so that stuff is always easy to find and duplicates won’t spawn? I’ve tried Johnny.Decimal, and it didn’t work for me. Do you have other ideas? #AskFedi 17 comments
@kytta I think I've taken to naming files as descriptive as I can and then just using a fuzzy finder... Files are a mess. @inhji it had too little categories per area and too many projects per category for me to manage stuff effectively. And, even though Johnny.Decimal promised to make my structure flatter, it only made more nested directories than I've already had. Other than that, I am way faster in navigating alphabetically sorted names rather than numbers. Just not my cup of tea 🤷♂️ @kytta  @kytta may not work for everyone, but I burn DVDs every so often with important stuff I want to preserve. Then, everything from that year-or-two(ish) goes into the disc and I know where to find it. Or go frantically hunting through 3-4 discs till it turns up. I do tend to organise things, in an obvious-to-me-if-not-everybody-else kind of way, so that helps, but I guess I haven't reached so many files that I need a better system to find them 😅  @kytta @badrihippo I would caution you both about the lifetime of burned optical media. After a while, the chemicals break down and the data is lost. It's different than purchasing a commercial disc that has been stamped from a master.  -Docs (personal) Then mostly by topic/project and/or chronologically named directories inside. Johnny Decimal looks too rigid to stick to it. Maybe it works for personal files or abstract, administrative/managerial positions. Most projects comprise several kinds of files, and sometimes a high number of them, so I put those into different directories inside the project directory. Otherwise there would be pools of files, and I don't want that.  @kytta @kytta This question is really 2 in 1. How the data is organized and how it is stored/archived. W.r.t media, you’re aware of the lifetime limitations of optical media & flash media. So you’re using a hard drive to store your backups. Backup tech has become a sad state of affairs. Hard drives are cheaper than cassette tapes, but they have moving parts… heads that can crash. Not ideal. |
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@kytta that's one of my problems :)