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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 also don't like the...Submitted by enine on May 2, 2006 - 6:27am.
I also don't like the idea of using a tool like spotlight or whatever. I use the metadata built into the files themselves so whatever tool I do use to index/search can just pull the data from there, then if I ever do switch tools or OS's all my metadata still goes with me. I've switched a lot of systems over the years, from Commodore 64 to Amiga, to dos/windows 3.1 through Windows XP and then to Linux and have documents that have followed all the way and have learned to keep everything as open and cross platform as possible. Currently I still have a winodws partition on my drive just in case and when I do upgrade some sftware under Linux I make it a habit to boot into windows and upgrade the same software (openoffice for example) so I can test and make sure my stuff can still be seen there. Too many times I have invested time in some software and then found that it either was discontinued or the new version doesn't support the files from the old and have gotten stuck. » POSTED IN:
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