how do you organize files on your computer

[dpopiz]

all your files

 

[dpopiz]

and do you move stuff onto a CDR once in a while or something like that? how do you deal with all the creative files you have that you don't really use but don't really want to trash?

 

[Sqube]

The music is Artist --> Album --> Tracks.
The movies are just all in a big movie folder, sorted by name.
The videos are sorted according to what they are: comedies, TV shows/anime (sorted by name of show), and a misc folder for everything else.

 

[neutralizer]

My Documents:
My Music - Full Albums, rest by genre
My Videos - Just random categories
Schoolwork - By class
My Pictures - Just random categories

Imagedrive: By newsgroup

Rest is scattered in my Temp drive.

 

[Paratus]

I use folders......................

 

[EyeMWing]

I have 2.4TB of data, and no organizational scheme whatsoever. I know where everything is, though.

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: dpopiz
and do you move stuff onto a CDR once in a while or something like that? how do you deal with all the creative files you have that you don't really use but don't really want to trash?

400 GB external ftw.

 

[sandorski]

I don't really. Well, not totally. What I do is:

1) Have 1 partition where windows goes. Certain things like Winrar will also get installed there, but only things that I usually don't access directly and are fairly small

2) All my Games/Apps get installed on other partitions

3) I have 1 Directory where all my downloads goes(also not on Windows partition). There are sub-directories in there for certain commonly related files for certain Apps(UT2k4 for eg)

4) I have 1 Directory where all my music goes

5) All my Apps/Games get installed by the App/Game name and not by Company/Publisher and FFS not under Program Files(a friend tried that and I just about lost my mind )

6) Only rarely do I access EXE's directly from the Installed Directory or even the Program folder on Start menu. Commonly used Apps/Games are accessed through Quicklaunch.

7) I never use My Documents, or My Music, or any other Crappy directory in the Documents/Settings directories, unless an App/Game has put something in there. That setup is a complete mess and PITA.

8) Commonly used Documents also get a spot in the Quicklaunch menu

I suppose I organize more than I thought, but unlike Win 3.1 I really don't worry about tidying up my Directories list(s). Just a waste of time IMO.

 

[PinmasterJay]

Have partition just for media
Music by Genre
Movies by Genre
pr0n in the pr0n folder

 

[Leros]

Movie Drive: alphabetical list of movies

TV Show drive: NameOfShow -> Season # - > shows in order ( 101 - Episode Title)

Data Drive:
- AIM Logs: myScreenname -> theirScreenName -> file listed by date
- Music: Artist -> Album -> songs in order (01 - songTitle)
- Programs: ProgramName - > files
- School: Year -> Class -> files

These are physically seperate drives. Windows in on a 4th drive.

 

[silverpig]

I put them into directories.

 

[Baked]

I drag everything to the C:

 

[clickynext]

All files stored in categories in My Documents, but the folder is mounted to a directory on a non-OS partition.

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: clickynext
All files stored in categories in My Documents, but the folder is mounted to a directory on a non-OS partition.

Same. I have a partition on my raptor for just My Documents.

 

[Skeeedunt]

Everything I would ever want to keep goes into C:\Data. That includes the My Music and My Documents directories.

 

[Kaido]

Desktop:
Vault folder (file vault, organized by School, Personal Finances, and so on)
Projects folder (projects I'm currently working on)
Downloads folder (HTTP downloads, FTP downloads, BitTorrent downloads, and so on - a temporary resting spot)
Temp folder (just to organize files when I'm in the middle of something, like Photshopping a picture that may require numerous temp files)

Also My Pictures for my Picasa photo album storage and My Music for iTunes storage. That's about it. Makes backup really easy. I use Replicator (free) from Karen's Power Tools to backup those folders to my external hard drive and Norton Ghost to create system clones. I store a full clone of the original system as well as regular clones on a monthly basis. Easy as pie, no hassles

 

[ElFenix]

music is mpeg\artist\album\tracks.mp3
movies i don't tend to keep so much of, they're in movies\movie.mpg
i have quite a few tv shows, they're in movies\tv\showname\season\episode.mpg

 

[Eos]

I get nutty about organization.

C: - OS hard drive
E: - Main storage drive (mostly tv shows)
F: - Music bootleg hard drive
L: - Loveline radio show, Adam Carolla Show, Adam Carolla Project, Too Late With Adam Carolla, Dr Drew shows hard drive
S: - Stern show hard drive

D: - (on my g/f's machine) Music bootleg hard drive

All boots are in a Music folder and again in their own "Artist yyyy-mm-dd" folder. All Loveline shows are in their respective year and then month folders. Same for ACS, Dr. Drew and Stern. All tv shows are in a Telly folder, then grouped by "Show - Season *" folder.

 

[RapidSnail]

Don't you hate it how many programs dont give you a choice of where to install but instead go directly to the C drive?

BTW, could someone briefly tell me what a drive partition is? I'm guessing it has to do with setting off a portion of space for a specific purpose, but I could be wrong.

 

[0roo0roo]

i dont. i just make sure to carefully name all my files. location is not important these days.

http://www.copernic.com/

i use their free desktop search. its sorta like how itunes search works, starts bringing up matches while u type and its basically instant since its all indexed before hand. i like how it can index mapped drives too. far superior to the slow useless windows file search feature. i like it better than google sincei'm not into integrating stuff with my browser and an online account that uploads my file index to their servers and all that nonsense.

 

[Brainonska511]

C: Windows/Programs
D: My Documents:
Aim Logs
My Music/Artist/Album/Artist-Track.mp3
My Pictures - Split into categories (Digital Camera, Astronomy, etc)
My Videos
Programs
Stuff (random junk)
Work

 

[schneiderguy]

C: Windows
D: Programs/Games
E: Music/movies/documents
F: pr0n

 

[0roo0roo]

and for off line files. http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/CD_Bank_Cataloguer/1048932889/1
cuz searching through spindles by hand is so very lame.