How Do You Organize Your Files? - New Folder (1), New Folder (1) (1)

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Soggy Floppa dijo:
I installed Hydrus to catalog my shitposts, and a couple years later I'm sitting with around 7 thousand untagged files in my inbox that I will never make it through. It is faster though and you can set the importer to create a tag with the filename.
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I can second Hydrus being exactly what I needed to handle my hoarding and categorizing autism, but it's a pretty steep learning curve. Still, it's a big help for making things more discoverable and preventing me from saving something in a deep folder and never finding it again when I would want to.
 
Código: 
Desktop/
    backlog/
        crap/
            oldcomputer/
               junk/
                  a_nigger_free_experience.webm
 
I tried using tagging-ware a few times now and it was always a horrific experience, so I'm waiting it out on that one.
One thing I've learned is that if I separate the even vaguely personal stuff from everything else, that helps a lot.
There are some (not software related) things Git helps a lot.
I also partially sort by conventional imageboard board names.
As for memes; born to hoard / world is a fuck / 410,757,864,530 pngs.

blackshirt dijo:
Código: 
/home/user/all/images/webp/
/home/user/all/documents/txt/
etc
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Isn't that pure, liquid redundancy?...
Pee Cola dijo:
using the Japanese YYYYMMDD format
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You mean the Hungarian YYYYMMDD format? :smug: No seriously, I just realized how even the EU is a bunch of date-niggers. WTF
⚞⛇⚟ dijo:
deciding whether yt-dlp downloads belong in the video folder or the archive folder?
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I ask myself "Is this guy important enough to get a folder named after him in Archive/?".
Rationale being that if its a one trick cow, then it will be equally painful to retrieve the file anyways, but option two would bloat the archive.
 
i'm a big fan of building out a very sensible and rigorous folder structure to neatly account for every possibility, and then as soon as a chance arises to make use of it, i don't remember it exists and merely huck my files into an impenetrable landfill
 
there's downloads, reaction images, and vidya
whatever minor/quick thing i'm working on is placed on the desktop and deleted afterwards
 
i find it weird there is zero messages using the extra symbols to categorize stuff based on importance because how alphabetic organizing works...
 
I leave everything on my desktop until it becomes nauseating to look at and then I shove it all into a single folder leaving only the important stuff on the desktop. I've done this enough times that I had to make a containment folder for my containment folders. I have a high resolution ultrawide monitor so I can fit a lot of junk on my desktop
 
like a lazy fuck
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I usually don't. Stuff that I download stay in the Downloads folder until the day comes when I need to reinstall Windows or Linux, then the memes go in their dedicated folders on my second drive then I transfer the rest to a new folder on a portable drive because I know I will need these files one day... (I don't but I keep them just in case).
For my memes though I organize them by their categories (general, games, tv, politics, reaction, templates), each category has subfolders dedicated to one thing, but I don't rename the files.

⚞⛇⚟ dijo:
Does anyone else have a hard time deciding whether yt-dlp downloads belong in the video folder or the archive folder?
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It depends on the content. Most of the stuff I download via yt-dlp stay in the yt-dlp download folder. If it's music or a meme then it goes to its dedicated folder.
 
My PC is organized via a hellscape of vaguely-sensible tradition that dates back nearly 8 years now.

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the only dedicated gaming folder I have is for games I don't play

Everything makes sense, yet nothing makes sense. Everything is in one place except for when it isn't. There are at least three different folders in various different places with more than 5 subfolders in them, and those subfolders also have their own subfolders. I have gone through and sorted all of it at least once a year and it has never made more or less sense at any given point in time. I am perpetually in a state of wanting to tear up the floorboards and start over vs make everything significantly worse so that only I know how anything works (as if that isn't already the case).

My desktop is pristine and was color-coded for 6 years (before I got too lazy to keep moving all the icons for consistency's sake); I then had a change of heart and decided to randomly scatter icons to look vaguely like some kind of scenery. Nobody I know can recognize the scenery except for me, so my desktop is finally reflective of the labyrinthian library of content it masks.

I also have two other backup drives that are organized in completely different manners. Help.
 
For music I just have a single directory with folders labeled "Artist - Album". I find that's as complex as I ever need it to be because its all being interacted with via Winamp anyway.

Audiobooks are in a different folder, sorted the same way ("Author - Book Title")

For movies same deal - a folder for movies, if the movie comes with an SRT file it gets its own folder so it stays organized. Animes and TV shows are in a separate directory in "Media -> Shows" and then they get their own folder (if multiple seasons, subfolders for those).
 
Nothing too interesting, nothing too messy.

I had a bad habit of leaving important stuff in the Downloads folder so now it's automatically nuked every two weeks
 
I save everything on the download folder and locate stuff by vaguely memorizing the file location based on stuff saved around it
 
Everything I download remains in my download folder. Once I am done with the files, then I would delete them if they are no longer of use to me (download, encode, upload here, delete).
For files that I find important, I will sort them into the default Windows 11 folders.

Another form of organization is that I have a "Projects" folder on my root user folder to be accessed by my command line.
Projects
|-Phonebooks
|-Lolcow 1 research
|-Community 1 notes
|-Resources for Phonebooking
|-List of general software
|-Passwords (low importance)
|-Discord exports
|-Ideas and how I would execute them
|-World Domination
|-Operation MindSwirl

And so on...

I haven't had to deal with a lot of files or use a tagging system.
 
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