Data Organization
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I make a point to train people on this at work, and I also make a point to periodically delete all relevant files that are not dated or not dated correctly
oh no you lost some important files? should've followed the standards
we only have so much space and your 1.2 GB undated file that isn't even in the folder it should be in is getting deleted
wrote last edited by [email protected]one place i was at had ridiculous formatting standards. but like i loved that i could tell everything in a document by reading its title. just, when your pdf scan of your supporting documents for your tax return is 135 pages long, well the title took ten minutes to read
it was like 2010 tax return supporting documents + w2 - john doe - abc corp + w2 - john doe - def corp + 1099INT - john doe - BankBank +...pdf
and one of my jobs was to double check that the title accurately represented all 135 documents in that godsforsaken supporting documents scan. That was a rough year.
Other firm i worked at that year, because i was stupid and moonlit at TWO tax firms one tax season, just called the file SUPPORTING DOCS.pdf . Typed everything in all caps because we thought the IRS was blind. Also allowed us to stream music online and not have to play it on headphones with our doors shut in our offices. They were better.
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With git LFS there's no excuse.
You guys have never had to handle a 300GB tiff file from microscopy and it shows.
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ISO 8601 is
YYYYMMDD(orYYYY-MM-DDin 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?wrote last edited by [email protected]So, was the time of murder 20th of October 2021 - 1:25 PM or 21st of October 2020 - 1:25 AM?
Depending upon that, you may/may-not have an alibi.
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So do I, but I don't think I need to worry too much about confusing them with 2090.
Now the alphabetical view doesn't sort them by date
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How would you propose to organize it then?
Relationally
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P.A.R.A. - It's a simple organization method and very easy to maintain.
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> says SSD
> shows a symbol of an HDD> MFW most people don't care because they understand the nuance of communication except for me
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.
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Folders aren’t by default listed at the top
This is a aweful windows only thing. Anyone who likes it should be ashamed.
No good intuitive way to set defaults for ALL folders at once
This is inexperience with the finder because it's ridiculously easy to set this.
Folders aren’t by default listed at the top
This is a aweful windows only thing. Anyone who likes it should be ashamed.
No. You cannot and will not shame me for something that is not shame worthy. Shame on you for trying.
No good intuitive way to set defaults for ALL folders at once
This is inexperience with the finder because it’s ridiculously easy to set this.
Do tell oh wise one. I’ve been using MacOS for over 15 years, and would love to learn the ways of a master such as yourself.
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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.
Apparently ISO 8601:2000 allowed YY-MM-DD, but the 2004 version does not.
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If you call the bottom picture a "Data Lake" you can IPO and walk away with millions
Time series
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Project designer: the project function is self explanatory.
User:
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> 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
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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.
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- New_document.docx
- New_document_1.docx
- New_document_111.docx
- New_document_12.docx
- New_document_12aaa.dox
- New_document_12aaafinal.docx
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So, was the time of murder 20th of October 2021 - 1:25 PM or 21st of October 2020 - 1:25 AM?
Depending upon that, you may/may-not have an alibi.
We're just talking about the filename, the exact creation time is tracked by the OS. Plus I'd imagine most documents also have a time and date inside. The file name is mostly for sorting and human readability.
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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
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They can’t totally remove the old APIs because every app that uses them would break.
For every other company I would buy that argument. But for one that forces customers to throw away millions of computers which can’t run Win 11… no.
People having to buy new hardware for new software is and has been normal forever.
People losing access to their software because the OS changes how it deals with something did happen, but that is not something anyone wants.
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I mean, I could hope to live that long!
Wise people plant trees whose shade they'll never stand in.
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And you assume that changes to filesystems, new filesystems being created or other such things won't at some point create a edge case that creates a problem?
When you could just be safe? Sounds stupid as fuck to me to blindly trust nothing will happen to create problems.
They've never had to recover a hard drive. It's okay, they'll learn the hard way.
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are we just talking digital because i've inherited archives. my current one only goes back to the 1950s but in the next decades i expect to get some going back centuries.
I helped digitally convert my local library's microfilm archives, mostly newspapers, but also some really old titles and deeds. Tons of stuff from the 1800s.
