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Re: Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?

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Post by pointsphere »

The same way I organize my whole life, everything is either new and unprocessed, being processed, or done.

- unprocessed, unsorted, new information: /Downloads

- currently being processed or worked on, otherwise empty, synced to NAS: /Documents /projects

- processed / finished / rarely accessed: /archive on NAS, indexed, backed up to backblaze

/archive also contains all media in a neat folder structure, but indexed (by the NAS) and searchable through Finder.

This way my work folders stay clutter-free except for current projects/work

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?

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Post by mrhappyunhappy »

Client work by folder name in Dropbox. Personal stuff mostly in documents but a bunch of stuff on desktop or desktop/old

Mix of important and unimportant things I may delete when I find free time in /downloads (usually when I run out of space)

Dropbox is my storage solution for personal and work. I may go NAS sometime but been too lazy to switch. Oh, also have an external drive to hold photos.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?

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Post by mrhappyunhappy »

chrisacky wrote: post #68
amenghra wrote: post #30

- bunch of random files in ~/Desktop/ - more random files in ~/Desktop/old/ - more more random files in ~/Desktop/old/old/... - real stuff in ~/dev and ~/Site/ - a mix of important and unimportant files in ~/Downloads/

You forgot the "old desktop (2013)" naming structure. But yeah, that's exactly me.

I never thought another human being exists who does this exactly. I bet there are millions of us!

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?

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Post by mxuribe »

saghm wrote: post #9

I have a fairly specific system that I've developed, mostly due to my being fairly anal about not wanting to leave random files lying around after I'm done with them and wanting to keep as little as possible in my home directory. I tend to try to keep most things in my directory that's sync'd to cloud storage (previously Dropbox, now Nextcloud since Dropbox doesn't support non-ext4 on Linux); ~/Documents and ~/Pictur…

I am in the process of testing out transitioning from dropbox over to nextcloud. It has only been a couple of months, but so far, really working out great! Kudos to the devs/contributers of nextcloud!

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?

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Post by miguelrochefort »

eps wrote: post #76
miguelrochefort wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. Keep backup codes [1] 2. Download your data [2] [1] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/1187538 [2] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190

I think the GP meant what if Google erroneously block access to your account for a supposed T&C violation or what have you.

Option 2. You can download all you data.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?

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Post by ianai »

pointsphere wrote: post #151

The same way I organize my whole life, everything is either new and unprocessed, being processed, or done. - unprocessed, unsorted, new information: /Downloads - currently being processed or worked on, otherwise empty, synced to NAS: /Documents /projects - processed / finished / rarely accessed: /archive on NAS, indexed, backed up to backblaze /archive also contains all media in a neat folder structure, but indexed (…

This is good. I might try to adopt it.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?

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Post by majewsky »

shanev wrote: post #86
omeid2 wrote: post #80

Using domain names and symbolic links. Seriously. github.com/omeid/upower-notify omeid.net/family/photos omeid.net/friends/joe/2018-royal-national-park-hike -> omeid.me/hikes/2018/royal-national-park omeid.me/hikes/2018/royal-national-park -> omeid.me/hikes/royal-national-park/2018 omeid.me/blog omeid.me/id some-company-i-work-for.com/projects/alpha-transit some-company-i-work-for.com/legal/contracts -> omeid.me/cont…

I started this route after being influenced by GOPATH. Can’t imagine anything else now.

Same for me: I have a program that indexes Git repositories in $GOPATH and provides fast access:

  $ cg gh:foo/bar
  $ pwd
  /x/src/github.com/foo/bar
Source is at https://github.com/majewsky/gofu/tree/master/pkg/rtree, README is at the top of the repo.

Re: Ask HN: How do you organise your hard drive?

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Post by ianai »

By file type at first (Ie music, documents, professional development, books, etc). For finances, I aggregate by year - 2016 Finances, 2017 Finances, etc.

Others have mentioned a process system so Parsing, Not Parsing, Long Term Not Parsing (nas). I think I’m going to adopt that into my workflow as well.

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