Organizing Your Hard Drive
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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
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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.
Thx, it looks useful. The one area where Everything is lacking is that it doesn't look inside files like Copernic can. For finding previous code Visual Studio's search (shift+ctrl+f and setting the options for directory and file type) works pretty well.
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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.
Similar to others, but with extra partitions: C: SSD with OS and apps Data on mirrored HDDs, partitioned as: D: Data; includes "My Documents" (location moved) and data like Quicken, spreadsheets, dev stuff, etc. E: Download; legacy, but I've kept it. Drivers, software updates, useful apps M: Media; My Pictures/Music/Videos. Largest of the partitions, naturally Backup for D: is twice/day (incremental), D/E/M each week. Use both external USB and NAS (with mirrored 2TB drives). Replace the HDDs at least every 3 years. As for organization of folders, definitely a personal preference, BUT I tend to organize with major folders such that location + file name generate meaning. Example: file named "Minutes 1-1-16" in subfolder "Team Meetings" in folder "Dev Project X". Sometimes OCD works to your advantage.
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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)
'Sbeen a few hours since I downloaded this ... a few less since I uninstalled it after an install. Did accepting the default settings make an "OK" button visible in that sparse GUI window you get before your uninstall or did you just know intuitively to wait for some asylum tokens to come down the pike in the form of normal GUI things like ... buttons .. to appear? I might try to reinstall this. 'All depends.
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Thx, it looks useful. The one area where Everything is lacking is that it doesn't look inside files like Copernic can. For finding previous code Visual Studio's search (shift+ctrl+f and setting the options for directory and file type) works pretty well.
More often I'm using Visual Prolog (Visual Prolog Features[^]), which doesn't have that capability.
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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.
X is drive letter of choice... I install games in X:\Games Compiler stuff in X:\Compiler Code projects in X:\Compiler\Projects\ Music in X:\Music\Midi (look up Timbres of Heaven 3!), X:\Music\MP3, X:\Music\Videos, etc I keep misc files (utilities, patches, etc) in X:\Misc\Util, X:\Misc\Patches, etc I manually organize my start menu (by dragging stuff around, creating new folders, etc) in:
Compiler Games --\Action --\RPGs --\Strategy --\Simulation Hardware // (burning programs, gfx or audio drivers, etc) Internet --\Email --\Browsers Maintenance // (virus scanner, system tools, ccleaner, etc) Office & Media --\Office --\Players --\Editors Utilities // (classic shell, archive programs, etc) (plus the standard windows entries)I never allow rogue shortcuts to stay around without moving them into the appropriate place. Also use Windows Classic Shell, which allows me to have the expanding start menu. Can't stand the all-in-one column approach that has been the norm for so long. -
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.
just do as my wife does... put EVERYTHING on the desktop.
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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)
Not only that,,,, But,,,, **The Author Responded To A Question From Me !!!** I put up a question, something like, "...*Do you suggest the x64 or the x86 version for a machine with blah-blah-blah ?*..." with my E-mail address, on his "*contact us*" page. A few hours later I saw an answer, equally simple, one line, x86 for performance unless your tree is super huge; or something like that.
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Similar to others, but with extra partitions: C: SSD with OS and apps Data on mirrored HDDs, partitioned as: D: Data; includes "My Documents" (location moved) and data like Quicken, spreadsheets, dev stuff, etc. E: Download; legacy, but I've kept it. Drivers, software updates, useful apps M: Media; My Pictures/Music/Videos. Largest of the partitions, naturally Backup for D: is twice/day (incremental), D/E/M each week. Use both external USB and NAS (with mirrored 2TB drives). Replace the HDDs at least every 3 years. As for organization of folders, definitely a personal preference, BUT I tend to organize with major folders such that location + file name generate meaning. Example: file named "Minutes 1-1-16" in subfolder "Team Meetings" in folder "Dev Project X". Sometimes OCD works to your advantage.
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Sometimes OCD works to your advantage.
**OCD: (acronym) "Organized Character Development"** The slobs and careless persons of the world became so distressed by the presence of normal people that they infiltrated the psychology textbooks, found the 0.001 percent of society who took things too far, and now assign the exact same acronym as a mental disorder in an attempt to ameliorate their severe shame and deflect attention away from their disorganized life, habits, living quarters, and hard drives.
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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 do this: C: (RAID SSD) D: (RAID SSD) E: (RAID SSD) F: through Z: Everything else is on Network NAS I: Installation software (ISO's etc.) L: Downloads M: Music (FLAC) N: Music (iTunes) P: Photos V: Videos T: The Wifes Drive... :) You gotta do it... S: System Backups etc. X: :) The important bit for C: D: and E: in my case is the RAID, One of my C:'s failed the other day... :( but I was able to continue working with no problems...just replaced the disk and that was it. Also OK for performance. I also have a couple of BitLocker Drives on S: for stuff that is more secure, license codes, copies of important documents etc... Hope it helps regards