How do you organize your digital files on your computer? Like images, videos, games, pdfs, etc?

"Creative Library" - has all my content creation stuff like Photoshop projects, video recordings, codebase, etc

"Documents library" - has all pdfs, music, photos, etc

"Torrents" - all Torrents subdivided into games, anime, Hollywood, etc.

And then downloads for miscellaneous stuff, all on D: drive.

*desktop landscape*
-folders
>everything
>everything2
>everything3
>everything4
-files
randomly placed files of all sort on ontire desktop merging into:
tribe of *.exe
tribe of *.txt
tribe of *.lnk
tribe of *.jpeg

same way I organize my analog files

be careful with those exes, don't let them start civilizing and shit

hydrus for image files, calibre for image collections and anything book related.
Im still looking for a program to manage videos and games (.exe).

I put all images to one folder, all videos to another PDFs to yet another one, etc
Currently have +20000 images in one folder, not a problem on NVMe with Linux, however, when I tried it on windows, explorer shits it's pants and hangs

videos folder split into webm/shows/movies/other
events (eg wedding) have their own folders in other
pictures split into wallpapers/gifs/fun/OC, with further subdivisions in wallpaper based on type
music by artist/album/
downloads folder i keep empty/have a movie or two which i delete after im done watching
documents folder has tex/hwk/scripts (all programming stuff here)/

also have another folder in ~ for software i dont use often, like deezloader

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for example

e:\pictures\[Smartphone_name]\2018\Summer\
e:\mp3\prog\Genesis\Foxtrot
d:\games\Abandoned\Sierra\
d:\text\job\

That's the grand plan, HOWEVER: too much is lying around in temporary folders and such. Too lazy I guess

What DE are you using?

>using pictures folder
you fucking degenerate

I have one folder called files (having everything in one folder makes making backups easier).
In that folder I have an application folder, a media folder, a webdev folder and personal documents folder.

The media folder has a books, images, music and video folder.
My personal documents has a photo, work, uni, taxes and other folder. Everything inside these folders is sorted in folders with a date and a name.

I just use subfolders and partitions while still holding out for a database based file system with tagging built in. So yeah I'm waiting for something that will happen sometime after the heat death of the universe.

github.com/roboyoshi/datacurator-filetree

I use Windows Explorer like a normal person

In /var/home

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ZFS datasets.

I also save every program that I install on Windows in the applications folder.
This way I can always just reinstall every program without having to search for it, even if the developers take it offline.

But why

I (try to) do this also but stuff just kinda piles in random folders on the hdd until I just get pissed and organize everything for a couple hours. Also the files folder always becomes a random dump of backups from laptops/phones.

..and the files folder is full of directories like "/files/backup/Documents/back/home/downloads/phonebackup/Pictures/backup/backup/porn/backup" because I always think that I'll just organize it later.

I luckily don't have that problem.

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How often do you guys just nuke everything and start over? My old Jow Forums folder got so large I had to delete it, no way was I going to sit through and sort thousands of 2007 - 2012 camwhores

specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

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Usually every time I clean install my OS which is usually every 2-3 years on my workstation. Sometimes the Jow Forums related folder gets too big though and I start over after 6 months and just archive the old one.

Not by category, but by time period.

that's brilliant

until Google discontinues a product, or they block you, etc etc a million ways that your idea is dumb

I use folders. For stuff I want to retrieve that will be difficult to find, like images or text-files, I give them an appropriate name so I can search for them.

I use windirstat so manage my unsorted-folder and Remove empty directories (red-v2.2-portable) to remove empty directories if I need to. dupeGuru or Duplicate Cleaner Pro to find duplicate files, MD5 and SHA Checksum Utility to verify file integrity, Eraser to secure erase files, and Path Length Checker to find files/folders with too long total file names so I don't get warings when copying folders. I use HD Tune Pro to read SMART values and perform error checks on drives. I use Dummy File Creator to write random data if I need to. And lastly I use WinRar extensively to backup my files. I split rar with encryption entire folders, with a recovery record of 25% and with file read verification enabled so I know they were read correctly. That way I can sustain up to 25% bit rot/damage and still recover a bit perfect copy of the files. I store the encrypted .rar parts on multiple HDDs on-site and off-site. It requires some discipline to do it this way, but I have full control over my files.

Ask me anything if you want to know more. *Honk Honk*

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>hydrus
My man.

For games there's Playnite. Dunno about videos.

Thats fucking stupid

That's retarded

I did this once and I regret it.

Every file named in snake_case beside folder names which it is normal capital words, if it's too hard for me to find a proper name for a file I delete it and that's what keeps it relatively normal sized.
Torrent folders organized by tracker

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like this.

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I don't, sadly. I'd like to, but I'm both lazy and a brainlet.
I'll be monitoring this thread to see if anyone here finds a good solution.

That sounds interesting, but sadly you only use proprietary shitware.

>That sounds interesting, but sadly you only use proprietary shitware.

Educate your self. *Honk Honk*

github.com/hxseven/Remove-Empty-Directories

github.com/hsoft/dupeguru/

eraser.heidi.ie/trac/

github.com/deadlydog/PathLengthChecker

Sure, HD Tune Pro and WinRar are proprietary software, but neither have any decent libre alternatives anyways. And don't bring up 7zip, it can't do what I outlined in my post and you know it. I should probably find an open source alternative to Dummy File Creator though.

honk

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Music:
~/Music for stuff I listen to
/data/archive for flac files and stuff I no longer listen to
Pictures:
~/Pictures with some subfolders including my meme collection
/data/archive/Pictures for holiday pics etc, name stains prefixed with yyy-mm-dd
Videos:
~/Videos for the series I'm currently watching/plan to watch soon
A bunch of harddrives I keep on my desk for archival purposes. Arch drive is mirrored and I keep an index that I can grep to find what drive contains which titles
Games:
/data/Steam for botnet stuff
/data/Games for GoG and Humblebundle standalone games. Also nethack.
Documents:
~/Documents contains a whole lot of subfolders:
crypt has some gpg keys and private stuff
projects holds projects I work on
DecSync I use to keep my calendars and contacts in sync
DnD is for dungeons and dragons related files (duh)
Music contains guitar tabs, lyrics and piano notes
pol is for political stuff like party statements and the like
Edu is for university related files
Specs is for technical protocol specifications
Work is for, well, work

That's about it

You fucking retard, that's lost history now. At least upload it before, there's plenty of autists that would have sorted it.

All of this would be a non issue with Hydrus and a non-shit filesystem.

>imagine unironically believing that collecting rare pepes is a real thing.

I have a pretty small collection still. I want a dedicated SSD, currently I have to split it with thumbnails on my boot ssd and files on hdd

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It is. And you're fucking retarded, you could have just grabbed a powershell script off the net to sort by Year-Month-Day.

>and a non-shit filesystem.

I'm not gonna run ZFS on my every day machine user.

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You know you can have multiple drives formatted differently on any real operating system, right?
If you're a winfag just forget about data integrity, you'll save a lot of wasted effort.

Everything on desktop

taking a look at this, maybe it can sort out my hundreds of hentai games

Same for me but with my doujins, I have them sorted by authors right now but I have 1248 Authors too, I obviously need a tagging system for when I'm in the mood for Hairy Milfs instead of just Agata's milfs

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>Hairy Milfs

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I have ECC RAM on my Windows desktop so the chance of bit flips while they are stored in RAM is minimal. Important files that I want to keep I .rar with recovery record right away, so the window for bit flips to happen (during read/write as the information is sent from RAM to the HDD and back) is also minimized. Once I have the file .rar-ed with a recovery record it's safe even if it's stored on a shit file system. I use BLAKE2 file checksum when I rar my files of course. If I were to do this with ZFS it would be a major pain in the ass and you know it. Now I just have to rar the file and forget about it pretty much. Any damage and the checksum will be off and winrar will alert me and I can recover the file with the parity data embedded into the archive. I've verified that it works by fucking up archives with a hex editor.

HONK

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what's this

okay now I can start importing em, going to take a while though

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this is good

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>save everything to desktop
>file name = client_name-project_type.file_ext
>try to include as many keywords pluralized and single form that can be searched later
>have application "file juggler" installed
>have special rules to move everything out of desktop into /stuff/ after not being accessed or modified for last 7 days
>append MM-YYYY to end of file name
>move to /stuff/file_ext/MM-YYYY/

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I have traditionally

C for Windows and stuff that I can't choose install path
D for Programs. Both these partitions are on a SSD as of recently.
E is labelled "Data" and it has a folder for reading stuff, writing stuff and notes. "Pictures" with many categories in folders which are subdivided into more categories. "Special" folder has 3D and 2D females, no explicit nudity.
F is "Music", with folders for own music, full albums/eps, a folder with stuff I don't have full albums, soundtracks, single songs, different stuff that won't fit anywhere, as well as a folder "new" where stuff I haven't listened yet goes in.
G is "videos and comics", with digital comics I got mainly from /co/, video capture and webm conversion output, as well as shows and different videos, mainly from webm threads. All the ancient stuff is burned away on DVDs, I don't think I have anything from before 2010 on my disk right now. This one also has several subfolder, for stuff like Initial D and John Cena memes or self made videos or sick chink shit like their kind of youtube poop I found funny many years ago.
H is gaming, it also has the main download folder, main "games" folder where everything that is not Steam goes in, save backups and some ancient images. I won't go into detail more now because I am tired.

is that adriana chechik

I have these folders on my home folder
% ls -pF
bin/
wrt/
lib/
mul/
src/
tmp/

PDFs, images, music and videos go on mul (multimedia). wrt is for my writings, I aspire to be a writer.

i have one folder where i put everything, its on my desktop.

its very big and very messy, but everything has its place and is findable

Downloads
{
Anime
Study
Movies
Games
Music
Software
TV
Others
}

Study
Games Installed
Program Files

/media/{Books,Documents,Images,Music,Videos}
/media/Books/{Audiobooks,Comics,Print}
/media/Books/Audiobooks/{Fiction,Nonfiction}
And so on. /media/ is a single partition with nightly off-site rsync. The directory structure goes pretty deep, such as media->music->genre->artist->album, or media->books->audiobooks->nonfiction->genre->autho

This system works for me because I can very quickly find the things I'm in the mood for, or determine whether or not I have something already by checking where it ought to be. If it's not there, I don't have it and that tells me that I need to acquire it. I sort my files as I download them (the drive holding the data is inside a Mac Mini running Linux, until I upgrade to a TV it can't handle anymore as it's my kodi box/plex server) so transmission-daemon seeds from those dirs as well.

never
ive had all the files ive ever owned since 2008
proudly hoarding data, almost 50% of my 8tb disk is filled with personal stuff

real question is, how do you back up? just drag and drop into an external disk?

I use Info Select 10. It's a bit pricey but a great piece of software. It also runs on Win 10.

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Folder structure

still working on it...not easy...need a big drive to organize every thing correctly, since all the drives all full.

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Named files, and general categories of stuff go in folders (pictures, music, video, stuff).

>says the idea is dumb
Say that to millions of people. The products I listed will never have the sun set on them. Sorry, but key Google products are here, and they are GLORIOUS!

i prefer to have control of my stuff than having some corporation having my data doing only god knows.

People depend too much having everything on the Internet. And dont rely at least a copy off the stuff offline.

Imagine, one day, without notice, your country/state(whatever) gets offline/off grid for a couple days, people would get bat shit crazy.

Or worse, a crazy virus shows up, and corrupts all the servers of your precious data. Not so glorious uh.

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Everything but images is small enough to manage without needing to do anything elaborate. I have thousands of images from pixiv, Jow Forums, etc so they're folder-separated by month with tags in the filename

~/Pictures/2019-04/1556386061789 (Jow Forums, op, is, a faggot).jpg
~/Pictures/2019-04/73348618_p0 (pixiv, anime, cute, girl).jpg
// etc.

I should also mention I have a small script that takes a booru-style query, finds all the images that have those tags and then pipes them into an image viewer.

Delete this image.

feet.

You use backup software to copy everything over while checking for errors. That way you don't wind up with corrupted data on the new disk.

what are some ways to check for errors? Right now I use rsnapshot for backups.

ya

PDFs:
-If many books from one author, own directory ~/Books/[Name]
-If 1-3 texts from one author, in general books directory ~/Books

I don't have separate directories for different classes because at first I had only a few books and didn't think I need to organize them, and pretty soon I had already too many to start organizing, but at least the filenames are OK, like:
>Sayre, K. M. Plato's Late Ontology: A Riddle Resolved.pdf
>Howe, T. - Brice, L. L. (ed.) Brill’s Companion to Insurgency and Terrorism in the Ancient Mediterranean.pdf

Yes, i have all of it on desktop so its there in one single click

sopa de macaco

On pc, all my games on D: (the rest is semi decently organized on C:)
On phone, my 3k reaction images that I'll never use are separated different folders depending on the reaction so I don't spend 2 hours looking for an appropriate one

only in brazil you eat that kinda of shit, not in portugal. We have good food, the only monkeys that we have are in the zoo.
Learn to distinguish brazilian / spanish from portuguese, you illiterate.

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Cod fish is the superior food indeed, assumed you were one of the macacos

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