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Data Organization
(lemmy.ml)
wtf is an SDD?
Maybe root?
Just put it all in the same folder and call it something like:
20250816_ProjectType_ActualNameHere_v001
How about New folder (11)/Final/Final2/TO DELETE/New version/DO NOT DELETE/20250816_Version 4
Ok. Calling me out like that. It's fine, I deserve it.
I store everything "temporarily" because "I'll sort it later" on the Desktop.
It's never later.
The most items I had on my work desktop was 1366, they were overlapping on my screen and windows+D would lag the whole computer. It was glorious.
- New_document.docx
- New_document_1.docx
- New_document_111.docx
- New_document_12.docx
- New_document_12aaa.dox
- New_document_12aaafinal.docx
I wish someone make github but for documents. Image your documents can be forked by someone and has many branches and revisions, it must be hilarious.
You just described SVN. It's what we used before the invention of git. And is still used today for team projects that use complex file formats, like images, binary blobs, 3d models, that sort of stuff. It will work with any files.
You can literally just upload a library of documents to github or another repo service like codeberg. That's basically what a code project is, a bunch of files.
The main difference being that code is typically stored in plain text files, where you can more easily compare and merge differences, while some other document types are harder to diff usefully. That doesn't mean you can't use git to keep their version history, it just means resolving merge conflicts might be a bitch.
I shit you not, IT around 2004, I had a nurse who stored all her important docs in "Recyle Bin"
She put in a ticket that her computer was slow. We scheduled a time to look at it and made sure she knew to be there.
When I showed up, she had left to go to lunch on purpose so she could take a free long lunch. I asked her manager to call her back in, she refused.
I diagnosed she was out of space, and emptied her bin.
That did not end up going well.
She was furious, Her boss was mad. My boss was pissed that it happened but considered it reasonable since she refused to be there.
I spent the better part of 4 hours undeleting deleted recycle bin contents which is WAYYYYYY harder than undeleting deleted files. They're already UUID's and bringing them back into existence will not put them back in the recycle bin, all that meta is gone.
Project designer: the project function is self explanatory.
User:
I asked her what the fuck she was thinking later in the process. She knew that files weren't supposed to be there She just thought it was a good idea, and was very defensive borderline offensive about being able to store files wherever she wanted.
My first inclination was she was just putting non-work-related stuff in there so that her manager would never see it. But no, there were hundreds of megs of work related stuff. I recommended she not store the 500 megs of personal digital camera fodder on what computer if she was that tight on space. Hard drives of this era were only a handful of gigs large. She just flipped out some more demanded a bigger disc. I had a private consult with her manager and mentioned that We could get a bigger desk but it was going to come out of her budget. She declined.
A year later we did SOX compliance and as part of that we deleted emails over 3 months and deleted any recycling bin data over a month old. I made sure her manager noted this and that it would delete her preferred file storage and never heard another word out of them.
Well duh.
It is a recycle bin after all.
The thoughts will be reused at some point for something new /s
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P.A.R.A. - It's a simple organization method and very easy to maintain.
This is really damn good. Thanks for sharing it!
> says SSD
> shows a symbol of an HDD
> MFW most people don't care because they understand the nuance of communication except for me
That's clearly an ipod
Actually it says SDD. Must be referring to those SeaGate hybrid drives, but even those are referred to as SSHD, so I'm at a loss for what they mean.
So i not the only one who misspells. Cool!
I often catch myself using Downloads to store a very suspicious quantity of files.
😳
You're a massive du -sh
Yes. Downloads is the way.
If you want to make yourself organize better, set up a cron to remove all downloads older than 7 days 😳 then you’ll be efficient—and probably have nightmares.
No,I'll just disable the cron job before it executes and forget about it.
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Anyone who uses YYMMDD instead of ISO 8601 needs to be fed feet first into a wood chipper.
ISO 8601 is YYYYMMDD (or YYYY-MM-DD in extended format)
Are you really going to wood chipper someone for leaving off the leading 20? I think we can safely infer the century and millennium with a high confidence, why not trade them for two extra name characters?
I recently had an accountant file something for the IRS that was dated as expiring in 1940 when it should've been 2040. I had to catch it myself after reading through 70 pages of dense forms before it was sent off, and I could've easily missed it.
Digital records have existed long enough now that it's downright irresponsible to leave off the century for anything where having an accurate date might even slightly matter.
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If you call the bottom picture a "Data Lake" you can IPO and walk away with millions
It's horizontal scaling!
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Hmmm yeah. But most of it lives in an automatic cloud backup as well.. Photos, important documents, game saves, programming projects. I've lost drives before and apart from one or two moments where I couldn't find a very specific file I didn't really miss anything. The only things that I really do need to backup at the moment are my music projects and the raw files from my photography
Man, I hate my moms pc folder layout, like why do you have Documents folder inside of documents folder inside of Documents folder? Why do you create excel sheets inside Downloads folder when you didn't download them???
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