Data Organization
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I often catch myself using Downloads to store a very suspicious quantity of files.
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I’ll say that as much as I love Apple and macOS, Finder has some pretty terrible defaults that make file management pretty difficult for the average user. The default “All Files” view is atrocious.
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Just missing a random pile of files on the desktop.
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I often catch myself using Downloads to store a very suspicious quantity of files.
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I find myself having too many nested folders, and I’m just a normie. I wonder how deep they go for you tech people.
At some points, Windows won’t let me change the file name because it was too long and I’m assuming the file path to it plus the ridiculously long name (“person last name, first name - type of document (purpose) yyyymmdd”) just breaks Windows.
Sometimes I have to copy those files to my desktop just to rename the new file, so that I can upload the file to an online system that only lets me upload files with names under 42 characters long. It’s wild.
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Shouldn't it show the directory the file is in instead of just showing them grouped together? Or is Projects 2 through 4 in the Project 1 folder and ditto with all of the experiment folders?
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I’ll say that as much as I love Apple and macOS, Finder has some pretty terrible defaults that make file management pretty difficult for the average user. The default “All Files” view is atrocious.
- Not being able to create a file
- Folders aren’t by default listed at the top
- Spring-loaded folders are hit or miss
- No good intuitive way to set defaults for ALL folders at once
- No good intuitive way to reset any folder defaults
- .DS_Store and ._DS_Store (nuff said)
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Just missing a random pile of files on the desktop.
What is this "desktop" of which you speak?
Is that what's under all these files?
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I often catch myself using Downloads to store a very suspicious quantity of files.
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
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I often catch myself using Downloads to store a very suspicious quantity of files.
Downloads is usually my largest folder. Funny thing is that it is literally all just Linux isos because I'm trying some things with servers
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Shouldn't it show the directory the file is in instead of just showing them grouped together? Or is Projects 2 through 4 in the Project 1 folder and ditto with all of the experiment folders?
It's not like a comic has to be realistic
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I find myself having too many nested folders, and I’m just a normie. I wonder how deep they go for you tech people.
At some points, Windows won’t let me change the file name because it was too long and I’m assuming the file path to it plus the ridiculously long name (“person last name, first name - type of document (purpose) yyyymmdd”) just breaks Windows.
Sometimes I have to copy those files to my desktop just to rename the new file, so that I can upload the file to an online system that only lets me upload files with names under 42 characters long. It’s wild.
In my projects folder I have an "all" folder where I store all my projects. But back at the projects folder there are others like "by-client", " by-language", and "by-date". When I make a new project I create it inside the all folder, and then place shortcuts inside the corresponding folders.
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Shouldn't it show the directory the file is in instead of just showing them grouped together? Or is Projects 2 through 4 in the Project 1 folder and ditto with all of the experiment folders?
It is clear what the comic is trying to communicate and does so locally sound.
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I find myself having too many nested folders, and I’m just a normie. I wonder how deep they go for you tech people.
At some points, Windows won’t let me change the file name because it was too long and I’m assuming the file path to it plus the ridiculously long name (“person last name, first name - type of document (purpose) yyyymmdd”) just breaks Windows.
Sometimes I have to copy those files to my desktop just to rename the new file, so that I can upload the file to an online system that only lets me upload files with names under 42 characters long. It’s wild.
My paths are pretty short ngl
/home/user/devel/projects/android/testproject/
Probably is the longest one.
Or maybe even
/home/user/devel/lessons/dotnet-aspnet/exam/AspnetExam/xxxroot/libs/bootstrap-icons/
But that one is temporary, I'll archive it once it's done -
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~/Desktop/sort/sort/sortme/shit_from_dt/sort/really_important_shit/sort
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I find myself having too many nested folders, and I’m just a normie. I wonder how deep they go for you tech people.
At some points, Windows won’t let me change the file name because it was too long and I’m assuming the file path to it plus the ridiculously long name (“person last name, first name - type of document (purpose) yyyymmdd”) just breaks Windows.
Sometimes I have to copy those files to my desktop just to rename the new file, so that I can upload the file to an online system that only lets me upload files with names under 42 characters long. It’s wild.
You can enable long names in Windows, essentially removing that restriction and giving you the power of all the sub folders up to something like 26'000 characters.
- Open the Registry Editor.
- Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem
- Find the LongPathsEnabled DWORD value, double-click it, and set its value to 1
- Restart your computer
- Be free and happy
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In my projects folder I have an "all" folder where I store all my projects. But back at the projects folder there are others like "by-client", " by-language", and "by-date". When I make a new project I create it inside the all folder, and then place shortcuts inside the corresponding folders.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I do something like:
From Documents > ‘routine documents’ > FY > Month > Section (personnel, operations, or logistics) > and whatever task from there for my main day-to-day stuff
But, for operations outside of the monthly sort, like managing personnel training, it gets really weird;
From Documents > Training > FY > department > categories of training > subcategory > individual person’s folder for the course > application folders with dates (the last folder here is when the one that got approved and they’re going to the school on).
This one is where I end up with file names I can’t rename.
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You can enable long names in Windows, essentially removing that restriction and giving you the power of all the sub folders up to something like 26'000 characters.
- Open the Registry Editor.
- Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem
- Find the LongPathsEnabled DWORD value, double-click it, and set its value to 1
- Restart your computer
- Be free and happy
That sounds like something my organization would have restricted access to.
