Moving old things into an archive subfolder helps and I don't have to feel like I will lose the data (it's not like I marked it for expunging). I used to keep one folder per school/internship/employer, and it got a bit much. Folders can have an 'archive' subfolder for things you may need one day, but that you aren't likely to ever touch again. (System timestamps are prone to being lost upon migration, or get updated when you fix a typo while reading.) When in doubt, use year-month-NAME for files and directories, then the rest of the name matters a lot less as you're likely to remember the year and season that a given thing happened in. (Games will store your save files in places you didn't know existed.) Mark the backups as backups, so you don't have to think "eh, am I going to find any original data on this 2008 hard drive or was it just a backup copy I can wipe?". I have a phone from 2012 that I still haven't finished migrating. If you didn't need to go back to the device, wipe the device. Keep track of in which folders you've stored data and, once those are copied over, give it e.g. Don't let data get stuck on old devices. Use broad, obvious categories ("photos", "audiobooks/English", "audiobooks/Dutch", "games/downloaded", "games/self-made", etc.) for the main folder names. For example for photos: have one directory for all of them, and make subdirectories there by either the device that took it (I remember better whether I took a photo with device A or B than whether it was in 2017 or 2016) or whatever else you prefer. Have a password manager that someone else also knows the password to I used to collect things like movies, books and then realized that could just rent and buy them over so no more into hoarding the stuff here.īest advice, I can give after trying multiple organizational systems is constant pruning and sharing out what you can in public domain. Either open sourced or in private git repos. The rest of it like work related repositories, code and other stuff. Tax filings & income documents are in a digital private locker. They are like a closet which I don't really mind cleaning out once in a bit and losing it. The rest are really things which I can afford to lose. Public ones - Already part of the internet space. Have a premium account to accommodate for all the space needed I have tried NAS'es, Disks and realize never ever come back to them.Īn auto-backup of photos, videos & music is what I like. I love culling things and losing things which have aggregated over the years.
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