Organizing Your Hard Drive
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I just did a search for "Organizing Your Hard Drive" on this site (using two or three different phrases) and found nothing, so I thought I would ask. Pre-Question before the main question: Did I miss the obvious ? Is there a topic or group for this already ? If so, please point me. Main question: How do **you** arrange **your** hard drive ? I just don't like the way mine has evolved into such an obfuscated convolution of DISorganization. My not-so-perfect inventory of my drive shows me... ````````````` - Folders: 116,354 - Files: 620,448 ````````````` ...which is plenty good enough for our purposes here. That's an average of 5 or 6 files per folder, which is an absolutely inaccurate way of understanding the numbers. The arithmetic average is by no means truly "*average*" as we humans understand the word. I want to start a couple of home study courses, and I have this belief that my disorganized hard drive is going to thwart all efforts before I begin the first one. Conversely, I have a sincere belief that an organized drive would significantly enhance and greatly increase my ability to absorb the knowledge that I'm trying to acquire. So I'm up for suggestions and ideas on how other people have approached this.
Since years I organize my PC in a "system drive" on which in only Windows and the installed apps. For my data and even ALL download I use an extra drive. So I am only one step away "formatting and reinstalling" windows and most of all: I know where all my data is. :thumbsup:
Press F1 for help or google it. Greetings from Germany
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Since years I organize my PC in a "system drive" on which in only Windows and the installed apps. For my data and even ALL download I use an extra drive. So I am only one step away "formatting and reinstalling" windows and most of all: I know where all my data is. :thumbsup:
Press F1 for help or google it. Greetings from Germany
I do exactly the same. I have good reasons for using a separate drive for data: 1. It means I can make an image for the systems drive only, in case I ever need to restore it. I don't want such images bloated with a pile of data folders. Image files are large enough as it is. 2. It's easy to backup data only. Just make sure everything important on the data drive is backed up to an external drive. Since I have images of the systems drive, I am not concerned about backups for that drive. If I am attacked by a virus, like the ransom virus, I simply restore the systems drive from a recent image, and the data drive from the external backup. Images and data backups are kept in separate external drives that are normally disconnected, to avoid infection.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I do exactly the same. I have good reasons for using a separate drive for data: 1. It means I can make an image for the systems drive only, in case I ever need to restore it. I don't want such images bloated with a pile of data folders. Image files are large enough as it is. 2. It's easy to backup data only. Just make sure everything important on the data drive is backed up to an external drive. Since I have images of the systems drive, I am not concerned about backups for that drive. If I am attacked by a virus, like the ransom virus, I simply restore the systems drive from a recent image, and the data drive from the external backup. Images and data backups are kept in separate external drives that are normally disconnected, to avoid infection.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
Aha Hardware config affects software config affects user experience. Yes, good sense, both of you.
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I just did a search for "Organizing Your Hard Drive" on this site (using two or three different phrases) and found nothing, so I thought I would ask. Pre-Question before the main question: Did I miss the obvious ? Is there a topic or group for this already ? If so, please point me. Main question: How do **you** arrange **your** hard drive ? I just don't like the way mine has evolved into such an obfuscated convolution of DISorganization. My not-so-perfect inventory of my drive shows me... ````````````` - Folders: 116,354 - Files: 620,448 ````````````` ...which is plenty good enough for our purposes here. That's an average of 5 or 6 files per folder, which is an absolutely inaccurate way of understanding the numbers. The arithmetic average is by no means truly "*average*" as we humans understand the word. I want to start a couple of home study courses, and I have this belief that my disorganized hard drive is going to thwart all efforts before I begin the first one. Conversely, I have a sincere belief that an organized drive would significantly enhance and greatly increase my ability to absorb the knowledge that I'm trying to acquire. So I'm up for suggestions and ideas on how other people have approached this.
Most of mine are stacked in a pile next to my NAS, sitting in a 3.5" hotswap tray, but some are in a USB enclosure. The older ones are sitting in a box under my desk, waiting to be wiped with DBAN and then sent for recycling. Oh, you mean organizing files. Never mind.
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I just did a search for "Organizing Your Hard Drive" on this site (using two or three different phrases) and found nothing, so I thought I would ask. Pre-Question before the main question: Did I miss the obvious ? Is there a topic or group for this already ? If so, please point me. Main question: How do **you** arrange **your** hard drive ? I just don't like the way mine has evolved into such an obfuscated convolution of DISorganization. My not-so-perfect inventory of my drive shows me... ````````````` - Folders: 116,354 - Files: 620,448 ````````````` ...which is plenty good enough for our purposes here. That's an average of 5 or 6 files per folder, which is an absolutely inaccurate way of understanding the numbers. The arithmetic average is by no means truly "*average*" as we humans understand the word. I want to start a couple of home study courses, and I have this belief that my disorganized hard drive is going to thwart all efforts before I begin the first one. Conversely, I have a sincere belief that an organized drive would significantly enhance and greatly increase my ability to absorb the knowledge that I'm trying to acquire. So I'm up for suggestions and ideas on how other people have approached this.
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I just did a search for "Organizing Your Hard Drive" on this site (using two or three different phrases) and found nothing, so I thought I would ask. Pre-Question before the main question: Did I miss the obvious ? Is there a topic or group for this already ? If so, please point me. Main question: How do **you** arrange **your** hard drive ? I just don't like the way mine has evolved into such an obfuscated convolution of DISorganization. My not-so-perfect inventory of my drive shows me... ````````````` - Folders: 116,354 - Files: 620,448 ````````````` ...which is plenty good enough for our purposes here. That's an average of 5 or 6 files per folder, which is an absolutely inaccurate way of understanding the numbers. The arithmetic average is by no means truly "*average*" as we humans understand the word. I want to start a couple of home study courses, and I have this belief that my disorganized hard drive is going to thwart all efforts before I begin the first one. Conversely, I have a sincere belief that an organized drive would significantly enhance and greatly increase my ability to absorb the knowledge that I'm trying to acquire. So I'm up for suggestions and ideas on how other people have approached this.
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Aha Hardware config affects software config affects user experience. Yes, good sense, both of you.
I use something like: \dev \dev\desktop\ \dev\desktop\C#\<individual proj names > \dev\desktop\python\<indvidual proj names > \dev\ \dev\web\<individual proj names> \dev\web\<sample>\js\ \dev\web\<sample>\css\ \dev\web\mvcProjects\<individual projects> \data\ \data\write\ \data\write\ \data\ This works well and allows me to find things relatively easily. However, admittedly, I often spread stuff around and gunk it up a bit and lose things. :)
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I just did a search for "Organizing Your Hard Drive" on this site (using two or three different phrases) and found nothing, so I thought I would ask. Pre-Question before the main question: Did I miss the obvious ? Is there a topic or group for this already ? If so, please point me. Main question: How do **you** arrange **your** hard drive ? I just don't like the way mine has evolved into such an obfuscated convolution of DISorganization. My not-so-perfect inventory of my drive shows me... ````````````` - Folders: 116,354 - Files: 620,448 ````````````` ...which is plenty good enough for our purposes here. That's an average of 5 or 6 files per folder, which is an absolutely inaccurate way of understanding the numbers. The arithmetic average is by no means truly "*average*" as we humans understand the word. I want to start a couple of home study courses, and I have this belief that my disorganized hard drive is going to thwart all efforts before I begin the first one. Conversely, I have a sincere belief that an organized drive would significantly enhance and greatly increase my ability to absorb the knowledge that I'm trying to acquire. So I'm up for suggestions and ideas on how other people have approached this.
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I just did a search for "Organizing Your Hard Drive" on this site (using two or three different phrases) and found nothing, so I thought I would ask. Pre-Question before the main question: Did I miss the obvious ? Is there a topic or group for this already ? If so, please point me. Main question: How do **you** arrange **your** hard drive ? I just don't like the way mine has evolved into such an obfuscated convolution of DISorganization. My not-so-perfect inventory of my drive shows me... ````````````` - Folders: 116,354 - Files: 620,448 ````````````` ...which is plenty good enough for our purposes here. That's an average of 5 or 6 files per folder, which is an absolutely inaccurate way of understanding the numbers. The arithmetic average is by no means truly "*average*" as we humans understand the word. I want to start a couple of home study courses, and I have this belief that my disorganized hard drive is going to thwart all efforts before I begin the first one. Conversely, I have a sincere belief that an organized drive would significantly enhance and greatly increase my ability to absorb the knowledge that I'm trying to acquire. So I'm up for suggestions and ideas on how other people have approached this.
Simple, use one partition is for the OS and programs. The rest of the drive is up to you. For the last few builds, I have a secondary partition on the main drive for backups, then one or more data drives. As for organization of content, that just takes practice and time to develop your own method. Anything that is date sensitive like customer databases, I always keep in folders named yyyy-mm-dd so that they sort like they should. :)
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I've been meaning to organize my hdd, but it seems like the main point of that is to know where to find files and for that I just use Everything Search Engine[^]
Very nice find. Nice looking website. His first impression is excellent. The rest of the idiots who are cluttering the screen could take some instant lessons from that guy. Thank you very much. I think I'll try that before I spend hours and money on a philosophical/emotional restructuring.
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I just did a search for "Organizing Your Hard Drive" on this site (using two or three different phrases) and found nothing, so I thought I would ask. Pre-Question before the main question: Did I miss the obvious ? Is there a topic or group for this already ? If so, please point me. Main question: How do **you** arrange **your** hard drive ? I just don't like the way mine has evolved into such an obfuscated convolution of DISorganization. My not-so-perfect inventory of my drive shows me... ````````````` - Folders: 116,354 - Files: 620,448 ````````````` ...which is plenty good enough for our purposes here. That's an average of 5 or 6 files per folder, which is an absolutely inaccurate way of understanding the numbers. The arithmetic average is by no means truly "*average*" as we humans understand the word. I want to start a couple of home study courses, and I have this belief that my disorganized hard drive is going to thwart all efforts before I begin the first one. Conversely, I have a sincere belief that an organized drive would significantly enhance and greatly increase my ability to absorb the knowledge that I'm trying to acquire. So I'm up for suggestions and ideas on how other people have approached this.
I'm very particular about my folder structure. All downloads go onto my External drive which is share across the network: F:\Downloads\Microsoft\Visual Studio\14\Professional\... F:\Downloads\Microsoft\SQL Server\14\Server\... F:\Downloads\Microsoft\SQL Server\14\SSMS\... F:\Download\Malware Bytes\2.2.0\... For projects I usually do: C:\Projects\Clients\[company name]\[app name]\[version]\trunk\... C:\Projects\Sandbox\[app name]\... C:\Projects\app1\... C:\Projects\app2\... For documents, I NEVER use 'My Dcuments/Files/Pictures/Movies' - etc.. Stupid idea IMHO... I use: C:\Documents\[Subject 1]\doc1.txt C:\Documents\[Subject 1]\doc2txt
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I just did a search for "Organizing Your Hard Drive" on this site (using two or three different phrases) and found nothing, so I thought I would ask. Pre-Question before the main question: Did I miss the obvious ? Is there a topic or group for this already ? If so, please point me. Main question: How do **you** arrange **your** hard drive ? I just don't like the way mine has evolved into such an obfuscated convolution of DISorganization. My not-so-perfect inventory of my drive shows me... ````````````` - Folders: 116,354 - Files: 620,448 ````````````` ...which is plenty good enough for our purposes here. That's an average of 5 or 6 files per folder, which is an absolutely inaccurate way of understanding the numbers. The arithmetic average is by no means truly "*average*" as we humans understand the word. I want to start a couple of home study courses, and I have this belief that my disorganized hard drive is going to thwart all efforts before I begin the first one. Conversely, I have a sincere belief that an organized drive would significantly enhance and greatly increase my ability to absorb the knowledge that I'm trying to acquire. So I'm up for suggestions and ideas on how other people have approached this.
Faaarrrrkkkk I hate MS with their favourites, libraries, onedrive and add in googles drive and dropbox and they ALL want your data. I once tried to organise my stuff and lost where pictures were :mad:. As for development data, that resides on a different partition or drive, VS puts it's projects where I want them and SQL Server has it's own partition. It is only my personal stuff that is a complete mess.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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I just did a search for "Organizing Your Hard Drive" on this site (using two or three different phrases) and found nothing, so I thought I would ask. Pre-Question before the main question: Did I miss the obvious ? Is there a topic or group for this already ? If so, please point me. Main question: How do **you** arrange **your** hard drive ? I just don't like the way mine has evolved into such an obfuscated convolution of DISorganization. My not-so-perfect inventory of my drive shows me... ````````````` - Folders: 116,354 - Files: 620,448 ````````````` ...which is plenty good enough for our purposes here. That's an average of 5 or 6 files per folder, which is an absolutely inaccurate way of understanding the numbers. The arithmetic average is by no means truly "*average*" as we humans understand the word. I want to start a couple of home study courses, and I have this belief that my disorganized hard drive is going to thwart all efforts before I begin the first one. Conversely, I have a sincere belief that an organized drive would significantly enhance and greatly increase my ability to absorb the knowledge that I'm trying to acquire. So I'm up for suggestions and ideas on how other people have approached this.
Like this:
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D:- Projects - Client 1 - Documents - Code - Database - Backups - Client 2 - Documents - Code - Database - Backups - Personal - Documents - Training and Help material - Code - Pictures and Videos - OneNote - SetUps - Downloads "You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[^]
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Very nice find. Nice looking website. His first impression is excellent. The rest of the idiots who are cluttering the screen could take some instant lessons from that guy. Thank you very much. I think I'll try that before I spend hours and money on a philosophical/emotional restructuring.
I've been using that for many months, and find it an invaluable tool. The initial indexing does take a few minutes, but then I have 172,053 folders and 4,466,927 files on my disk. Once the indexing is done, even wildcard search is almost instant. Just to make a point, I've used Windows Explorer to try and find those numbers, but at the time I'm writing this it's only halfway done counting, whereas Everything (which I started later) has long finished indexing, creating the searchable database, and providing the results. P.S.: Windows Explorer eventually finished, but for some reason it only displays 170,071 folders and 4,494,444 files - I have no idea why it's missing some 2000 folders and more than 170,000 files :wtf:
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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I've been meaning to organize my hdd, but it seems like the main point of that is to know where to find files and for that I just use Everything Search Engine[^]
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I just did a search for "Organizing Your Hard Drive" on this site (using two or three different phrases) and found nothing, so I thought I would ask. Pre-Question before the main question: Did I miss the obvious ? Is there a topic or group for this already ? If so, please point me. Main question: How do **you** arrange **your** hard drive ? I just don't like the way mine has evolved into such an obfuscated convolution of DISorganization. My not-so-perfect inventory of my drive shows me... ````````````` - Folders: 116,354 - Files: 620,448 ````````````` ...which is plenty good enough for our purposes here. That's an average of 5 or 6 files per folder, which is an absolutely inaccurate way of understanding the numbers. The arithmetic average is by no means truly "*average*" as we humans understand the word. I want to start a couple of home study courses, and I have this belief that my disorganized hard drive is going to thwart all efforts before I begin the first one. Conversely, I have a sincere belief that an organized drive would significantly enhance and greatly increase my ability to absorb the knowledge that I'm trying to acquire. So I'm up for suggestions and ideas on how other people have approached this.
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I just did a search for "Organizing Your Hard Drive" on this site (using two or three different phrases) and found nothing, so I thought I would ask. Pre-Question before the main question: Did I miss the obvious ? Is there a topic or group for this already ? If so, please point me. Main question: How do **you** arrange **your** hard drive ? I just don't like the way mine has evolved into such an obfuscated convolution of DISorganization. My not-so-perfect inventory of my drive shows me... ````````````` - Folders: 116,354 - Files: 620,448 ````````````` ...which is plenty good enough for our purposes here. That's an average of 5 or 6 files per folder, which is an absolutely inaccurate way of understanding the numbers. The arithmetic average is by no means truly "*average*" as we humans understand the word. I want to start a couple of home study courses, and I have this belief that my disorganized hard drive is going to thwart all efforts before I begin the first one. Conversely, I have a sincere belief that an organized drive would significantly enhance and greatly increase my ability to absorb the knowledge that I'm trying to acquire. So I'm up for suggestions and ideas on how other people have approached this.
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- System drive for OS and programs (SSD - 1 TB) - Working drive for stuff I'm working on (WD Black - 2 TB) - Backup and Storage drive to back up the stuff I'm working on, archiving, saving downloads, etc (WD Black - 4 TB).
Very good choice! I go there a step further ... * C: - SSD 0,5 TB System drive for OS and programs with ntfs links to other HDs. * D: - WD Blue 1 TB Data drive for stuff, like documents, projects, source code, etc. * E: - WD Blue 1 TB Work ground used by stuff I'm working on, like run/debeg project softwar (without source codes) and for databases, web server, VMs. * F: - WD Blue 1 TB Mainly for outsourcing of some SSD places like, like Temp, etc., to protect / increase the lifetime of the SSD. The rest of it I use for work and editing of multimedia files, and for extremely large amounts of data in DBs. * Backup, archiving, saving downloads, etc., all go to server shares on the network .
Something about which we often break our head: "In the name of the Compiler, the Stack, and the Bug-Free Code. Amen." (source unknown)
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I've been meaning to organize my hdd, but it seems like the main point of that is to know where to find files and for that I just use Everything Search Engine[^]
Ditto on the directory organization ... but I use Copernic Desktop Search (http://copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/). It has good file previews. It is most useful for finding code I've written before in previous applications. Search, preview in CDS and copy/paste if you need to. It's not free, but it's not expensive.
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I just did a search for "Organizing Your Hard Drive" on this site (using two or three different phrases) and found nothing, so I thought I would ask. Pre-Question before the main question: Did I miss the obvious ? Is there a topic or group for this already ? If so, please point me. Main question: How do **you** arrange **your** hard drive ? I just don't like the way mine has evolved into such an obfuscated convolution of DISorganization. My not-so-perfect inventory of my drive shows me... ````````````` - Folders: 116,354 - Files: 620,448 ````````````` ...which is plenty good enough for our purposes here. That's an average of 5 or 6 files per folder, which is an absolutely inaccurate way of understanding the numbers. The arithmetic average is by no means truly "*average*" as we humans understand the word. I want to start a couple of home study courses, and I have this belief that my disorganized hard drive is going to thwart all efforts before I begin the first one. Conversely, I have a sincere belief that an organized drive would significantly enhance and greatly increase my ability to absorb the knowledge that I'm trying to acquire. So I'm up for suggestions and ideas on how other people have approached this.
I mostly go with OS/Installer defaults. It's less painful than trying to fight the system. The only major exception is that about two years ago at work I created `C:\Program Fails\` as a cesspit to keep penguin droppings from fouling my root folder any more.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt