Optimizing your file organization

[Ariona]

What do you use to optimize your PCs files pictures etc, ? 

 

Any form of organization tool or process is valid. I have around 14K pictures so I would kinda like to have a Good system to organize them if anyone has anything better. 

[thekeemo]

folders in folders in folders

[Ariona]

folders in folders in folders

I feared that would be the best option. But yeno the internet comes up with some insane stuff. 

[Maslofski]

we dont know what the pics are/are for, so for pictures of you maybe year>month>week, or for landscapes and such just scenery>color. but its up to you how lazy/overkill you want to take the subfoldering

[Fred Castellum]

I spend quite a bit of time organizing my files manually, I don't know of any programs that sort files for you. Following the thread for potential useful suggestions!

 

Sorting through 20k songs is quite a pain... 

[Ariona]

I spend quite a bit of time organizing my files manually, I don't know of any programs that sort files for you. Following the thread for potential useful suggestions!

 

Sorting through 20k songs is quite a pain... 

Damn 20K songs? Wouldn't mind downloading that collection. 

[Fred Castellum]

Damn 20K songs? Wouldn't mind downloading that collection. 

Uploading would take forever. I've got a ridiculous amount of electronic and orchestral music. 

 

I've actually been kinda procrastinating, I still have unsorted files... 

[Fred Castellum]

Why don't you use MusicBee? It's pretty cool, can identify songs and fill ID3 tags using MusicBrainz, sort stuff into albums and artists folders.

Probably because I've never heard of it or actively searched for music file organization programs. I'll have a look at that one thanks. 

[elkenrod]

I bet that Suicidesheep folder is huge.

[madcow]

Organize? Not really unless it is very important. I just have a few generic directories like video and music.

 

As I load new content I'll do a quick check to look for duplicate content but that is about it. Any strict organization policy is not going to work for me because I may do it once but I'll never keep doing it.

[olbaze]

Depends on what I'm organizing.

 

• For video stuff (movies, TV shows, etc), I have alphabetic folders for A-Z in my Videos folder, with each show in their own folder under the respective letter.
• For music stuff, I have them by origin, since I have a lot of sound tracks (also the reason why I can't use an automatic sorter of any kind)
• For picture stuff, I have them by type: One folder for screenshots, one for photos, one for wallpapers. These can have subfolders based on origin, such as screenshots from specific shows and photos by date.

Speaking from experience, going from an unorganized, gigantic mess to a meticulously organized structure of folders is a major task (even more so if you fuck up something and have to start over), but once you have the system in place, it's fairly easy to keep.

 

The thing is, manual organization requires effort and discipline. If you lack either of those, you'll end up quitting at some point and then you'll just have a partially sorted library with a massive, scary-as-doberman "random" or "unsorted" folder. Automatic organization requires tons of prep-time, because if you're not 100%, absolutely, completely and utterly sure that it's going to work as you want and need it to, it can take your disorganized mess and turn it into an organized mess.