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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 😳 then you’ll be efficient—and probably have nightmares.
No,I’ll just disable the cron job before it executes and forget about it.
😳
You’re a massive du -sh
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
“Linux ISOs”
They are actually Linux isos. But also ironically, one of the things I’m trying to set up is the *arr set of tools
“Trying some things”
Then you end up liking what you slapped together with jank and a prayer to the temporary work-around and now there’s a new prod server!
I wish. I’ve never kept a personal server up for more than a month. I just never use them
Linux or Windows… doesn’t matter. Downloads is where I. Will find it.
Yeah cause my work computer limits onedrive storage to like 100mb and downloads is one if the only places where I have write access and it doesn’t go to onedrive.
If you call the bottom picture a “Data Lake” you can IPO and walk away with millions
“Unstructured Data”.
It’s horizontal scaling!
Anyone who uses YYMMDD instead of ISO 8601 needs to be fed feet first into a wood chipper.
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?As an old person who has archives dating back to the 90s, yes.
So do I, but I don’t think I need to worry too much about confusing them with 2090.
Just you wait…
I mean, I could hope to live that long!
Wise people plant trees whose shade they’ll never stand in.
Now the alphabetical view doesn’t sort them by date
Here you go gramps:
(shortD) => { return parseInt(shortD.slice(0, 2), 10) > 50 ? "19" + shortD : "20"+shortD; }Did the software industry learn nothing from Y2K? Was it too long ago already for people to remember the mess we made for ourselves?
Saving two characters in a file name is not worth the hell you are leaving in your trail by shoving this nonsense in an obscure corner of production code that people are going to forget about until it’s too late.
Their grandchildren will be pissing on their graves over it.
I often wonder what files may outlive me.
People have kept old physical remnants. There are obviously famous examples but there are far more mediocre examples.
All the unique content I’ve created fits on a modestly sized hard drive so keeping it around would be trivial compared to maintaining all those physical remnants.
It’s just a filename, calm down. The created by date is tracked by the file system and the repo.
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.
I understand you feel very strongly about four digit years, but I really don’t see any situation that I couldn’t sort out with a simple script.
Usually I don’t put dates in file names in the first place, but when I do I use the UTC timestamp; a date without a timezone is inherently fuzzy, and it’s easier to compare and differentiate numerical times.
If someone used two digit years in their naming convention I wouldn’t even blink, let alone get the woodchipper, life is too short to get angry over stuff like that.
They’ve never had to recover a hard drive. It’s okay, they’ll learn the hard way.
Until people start applying the same logic everywhere for consistency, not just in file names.
LOL!
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.
do you also read the word TITLES wrong in lowercase?
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.
The exact date of creation is usually preserved in the filesystem, we’re just talking about what to name the documents themselves. The filename should be short and to the point, it gets truncated if it’s too long, and on windows you only have 260 characters for the entire path to the file plus the name.
If two characters are hurting your 260 character limit then you have other more serious problems to contend with.
I use to do that but got tired of typing out unnecessary characters and appreciate the shorter character length. I think my folders and files will be long gone by Y2Point1K.
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.
Oh, it was just filenames, not everything-everywhere?
Then I guess it’s fine.What’s this date btw?
10/8/10
I like my
YYYY.MM.DD-textformat and you can sue me for itDots are reserved for filetype information, heathen.
hehe yeah
Your full file extension ends up being:
MM.DD-text
but hopefully noone needs to parse it that way.I tend to use
YYYY-MM-DD_hh:mm:ss.zzzorYYYY-MM-DD_hh-mm-ss.zzzdepending upon the requirement and just recently realised the problem with the.before thezzz.
Luckily I don’t need to add thezzzquite often.
nah sideways
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
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.
I assumed they meant it like
2025-08-18…Though TBF I sometimes rename files using the terminal and go
mv $file "some_name_$(date +%s),ext"
“SDD”?
“SDD”?
Yes. Solid Disk Disk.
Solid disk drive
I think most computer users now don’t know that file systems exist
Especially younger people. They’re used to files just… being there on their phone. Photo albums? Nah, just scroll though every photo you’ve ever taken to find the right one.
That, and having powerful search functionality + tagging has made perfect folder structures less of a requirement. I’ve never had trouble finding documents in paperless-ngx just by searching, for example.
Photo albums? Nah, just scroll though every photo you’ve ever taken to find the right one.
Then screenshot it so that the screenshot of the photo is at the top, then switch to the other app and upload the screenshot of the photo there.
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?
Desktops, are like ogres. They have layers 😬
My actual desk and office - messy. My desktop - folder, folder, 4 shortcuts. My phone -groups of apps ordered by function - Pebble, Office, Entertainment, etc. My garage - absolute hoarder nightmare from hell cause I just can’t seem to get to it. Why I can be ordered in one area and not in another is beyond me.
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???
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.
I call it “Purgatory”
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.
> 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.
So i not the only one who misspells. Cool!
That’s clearly an ipod
wtf is an SDD?
Super duper drive …
deleted by creator
- 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 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
diffusefully. That doesn’t mean you can’t use git to keep their version history, it just means resolving merge conflicts might be a bitch.
P.A.R.A. - It’s a simple organization method and very easy to maintain.
This is really damn good. Thanks for sharing it!
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.
This was one of the reasons I quit trying to develop on Windows way back when. I had a very well organized system of subfolders for all my code, and it was literally running into some kind of path length limit trying to import deeply nested dependencies in certain projects. This was WELL into the era of 64-bit computing, absolutely no excuse other than Microsoft taking shortcuts.
I still run into this issue when one of my company’s clients requires developing on Windows. Doesn’t take many subfolders before
node_modulesjust starts breaking.There are lots of reasons I hate developing on windows and that’s certainly one of them.
In my obsidian notes folder, i have
- 01 - Inbox
- 02 - Breadbox
- 03 - Data
.
- Inbox is for newly created notes
- Breadbox is for notes that i need to reference or otherwise want quick access to
- Data is for everything else
For file navigation, i use links and references within the notes themselves, which creates a network of linked files that is far far easier to navigate than folders
Everything else is sorta all over the place, but in general
- ~/Documents
- dumping ground for important documents, folders are arbitrarily made as I go
- ~/Downloads
- dumping grounds for downloaded things, generally important files are moved elsewhere
- ~/Code is where i put all of my personal projects and other junk related to programming
~/ is the user home directory
- C:\Users\Name for windows
- /home/name for linux
For pictures, i use a self hosted Immich instance
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.
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.
Too deep.
I am having a peoblem bwcause sometimes I broke my own rules or sorted every itme in it’s own folder.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
Do you even git?
Surely experiment 1…n should be branches.
With git LFS there’s no excuse.
You guys have never had to handle a 300GB tiff file from microscopy and it shows.
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
Mmmmm… Just format the hard drive.
