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File Organization Tipps
Zettt | Sep 8 2007
Hi, A few weeks ago i was totally re-organizing my file system on the computer. The problem starts with Archive. I don't where exactly to store my files. Some are more like Art, Music (i am a musician) and so on. But problems come in when i reach files for my job. As i said i am a musician - an Audio Engineer to. So where do i store those file regarding reading material about Audio Engineering which tell about music theory? Hmm?! So i asked myself, how are you organizing your files, your life etc into folders and subfolders? Thanks in advance 6 Comments
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 At work, I've got an...Submitted by mwr on September 8, 2007 - 2:42pm.
At work, I've got an XP laptop, a small Sun workstation, a G4 Mac, and an old SGI workstation on one KVM. And all of my servers at home and work are Linux. Enine's method was designed to be platform-neutral, which is one reason I liked it. I occasionally do IT work outside my regular work, but it's nothing I've had to maintain files on. But I've got projects that are internal to the university, and others for external clients through the university. I don't enforce much of a dividing line between those, I just consider the university or a department to be another client. Clients get a top-level folder in my Projects or Archive folder. Each of those top-level folders should get a per-project folder. And the structure of the per-project folders depends entirely on the project itself. So, examples: Stuff that's finished or long-dormant Archive/Company A/Fuel Vent Vibrations Stuff that's getting worked on now Projects/Company B/Person E - RP Models 20070904 Stuff that's reading material, or is kept around to help me work on other projects Reference/CAD Systems/inventor One thing that may differ between what I'm doing and what I think you're talking about is that all I'm doing above is the electronic equivalent of my general reference file cabinet drawers. If it's something I'm working on, it's in Projects. If it's done, it's in Archive. In, Out, and Pending have no meaning in that context. » POSTED IN:
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