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How do you organize your digital stuff? (mander.xyz)

submitted 5 months ago by jared@mander.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Do you keep everything in "downloads" or have file trees 100 folders deep?

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[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago

I have mine set up in groups, per hard drive.

Documents is set up for projects. Downloads gets grouped every few months and turned into a backup downloads folder on the backup hard drive.

So it goes from C:/Downloads into H:/Backups/Downloads/Downloads-11-19-2024

Every other hard drive is mostly just games, so it's set up by project and the Games with whichever launcher.

I don't have many projects that go more than 6 folders deep, most would be 4 at most

[–] mub@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Omg now they're trying to profile where you keep your shit so their hackers can find your porn stash more efficiently. Don't tell them Pike!

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Anything more than 5 dir deep is overly complex.

All movies are thrown into one folder called movies, every show is in its own folder with a season per folder. Jellyfin deals with that.
Music is stored by artist and thrown into the music folder.
Documents are sorted by year and purpose but are all in one folder called documents.
Books are in e-books, audiobooks are in audiobooks folders by author.

[–] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago

D: Downloads

Then the folders -

Films

TV programs

Software

Everything inside these folders is a fucking car crash

[–] huf@hexbear.net 1 points 5 months ago

everything randomly distributed between ~/dl and ~/tmp (i dont even remember why i have both), and then i use lr to find stuff (alias lr='ls -lrth'). or find.

[–] Laristal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

I sort things every once in a while but eventually lose interest or patience. Would be nice to have a way to do it automatically. I suppose llms could help there, but I'm not sure if they're quite there yet in terms of reliability.

[–] digdilem@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

And more importantly, how do you back up your important stuff?

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