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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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Yea, thas one thing I...Submitted by enine on March 23, 2006 - 12:50pm.
Yea, thas one thing I look for when it comes to buying hardware, stick with standard stuff as much as possible so I can upgrade it later. of course my 3.5 year old dell is out of warranty anyway now so it woudn't matter but ii was nice to be able to pop in the 120G drive with no problems at all. I even bought a used drive tray from ebay for $6 so I can swap the old drive in and have a test system on it now that is built the same way. When slackware 11 comes out I can test it on my oldtest drive first. » POSTED IN:
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