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I'm very particular about my folder structure.
All downloads go onto my External drive which is share across the network:
F:\Downloads\Microsoft\Visual Studio\14\Professional...
F:\Downloads\Microsoft\SQL Server\14\Server...
F:\Downloads\Microsoft\SQL Server\14\SSMS...
F:\Download\Malware Bytes\2.2.0...
For projects I usually do:
C:\Projects\Clients[company name][app name][version]\trunk...
C:\Projects\Sandbox[app name]...
C:\Projects\app1...
C:\Projects\app2...
For documents, I NEVER use 'My Dcuments/Files/Pictures/Movies' - etc.. Stupid idea IMHO...
I use:
C:\Documents[Subject 1]\doc1.txt
C:\Documents[Subject 1]\doc2txt
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Faaarrrrkkkk I hate MS with their favourites, libraries, onedrive and add in googles drive and dropbox and they ALL want your data. I once tried to organise my stuff and lost where pictures were  .
As for development data, that resides on a different partition or drive, VS puts it's projects where I want them and SQL Server has it's own partition. It is only my personal stuff that is a complete mess.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Like this:
C:
|- <OS and other installation>
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D:
|- Projects
| |- Client 1
| | |- Documents
| | |- Code
| | |- Database
| | |- Backups
| |- Client 2
| | |- Documents
| | |- Code
| | |- Database
| | |- Backups
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|- Personal
| | - Documents
| | - Training and Help material
| | - Code
| | - Pictures and Videos
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|- OneNote
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|- SetUps
|- Downloads
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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Create a new vm with a name that reflects 'home study'.
"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence."
<< please vote!! >></div>
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Totally missed this folder: D:\Windows\System\System32\ [GUID] \aajvc\DefinitelyNotPr0n
"You'd have to be a floating database guru clad in a white toga and ghandi level of sereneness to fix this goddamn clusterfuck.", BruceN[ ^]
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I mostly go with OS/Installer defaults. It's less painful than trying to fight the system.
The only major exception is that about two years ago at work I created C:\Program Fails\ as a cesspit to keep penguin droppings from fouling my root folder any more.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Similar to others, but with extra partitions:
C: SSD with OS and apps
Data on mirrored HDDs, partitioned as:
D: Data; includes "My Documents" (location moved) and data like Quicken, spreadsheets, dev stuff, etc.
E: Download; legacy, but I've kept it. Drivers, software updates, useful apps
M: Media; My Pictures/Music/Videos. Largest of the partitions, naturally
Backup for D: is twice/day (incremental), D/E/M each week. Use both external USB and NAS (with mirrored 2TB drives). Replace the HDDs at least every 3 years.
As for organization of folders, definitely a personal preference, BUT I tend to organize with major folders such that location + file name generate meaning. Example: file named "Minutes 1-1-16" in subfolder "Team Meetings" in folder "Dev Project X".
Sometimes OCD works to your advantage.
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Earth16 wrote: Sometimes OCD works to your advantage.
OCD: (acronym) "Organized Character Development" The slobs and careless persons of the world became so distressed by the presence of normal people that they infiltrated the psychology textbooks, found the 0.001 percent of society who took things too far, and now assign the exact same acronym as a mental disorder in an attempt to ameliorate their severe shame and deflect attention away from their disorganized life, habits, living quarters, and hard drives.
modified 3-Mar-16 17:33pm.
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X is drive letter of choice...
I install games in X:\Games
Compiler stuff in X:\Compiler
Code projects in X:\Compiler\Projects\<arrange by="" language="" or="" toolset="">
Music in X:\Music\Midi (look up Timbres of Heaven 3!), X:\Music\MP3, X:\Music\Videos, etc
I keep misc files (utilities, patches, etc) in X:\Misc\Util, X:\Misc\Patches, etc
I manually organize my start menu (by dragging stuff around, creating new folders, etc) in:
<br />
Compiler<br />
Games<br />
--\Action<br />
--\RPGs<br />
--\Strategy<br />
--\Simulation<br />
Hardware
Internet<br />
--\Email<br />
--\Browsers<br />
Maintenance
Office & Media<br />
--\Office<br />
--\Players<br />
--\Editors<br />
Utilities
(plus the standard windows entries)<br />
I never allow rogue shortcuts to stay around without moving them into the appropriate place.
Also use Windows Classic Shell, which allows me to have the expanding start menu. Can't stand the all-in-one column approach that has been the norm for so long.
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just do as my wife does... put EVERYTHING on the desktop.
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I do this:
C: (RAID SSD) <windows>
D: (RAID SSD) <windows directories="" i="" can="" move="" like="" documents="" etc="">
E: (RAID SSD) <installed program="" files="">
<working projects="">
F: through Z: Everything else is on Network NAS
I: Installation software (ISO's etc.)
L: Downloads
<compressed>
<documents (word,="" pdf="" etc.)="">
<etc...>
M: Music (FLAC)
N: Music (iTunes)
P: Photos
V: Videos
T: The Wifes Drive... You gotta do it...
S: System Backups etc.
X:
The important bit for C: D: and E: in my case is the RAID, One of my C:'s failed the other day... but I was able to continue working with no problems...just replaced the disk and that was it. Also OK for performance.
I also have a couple of BitLocker Drives on S: for stuff that is more secure, license codes, copies of important documents etc...
Hope it helps
regards
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Whether one uses the phone or pretends to do such, are they not a phony?
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and if someone is eating a sandwich while pretending to use the phone, would they not be phony baloney.
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Now that's a ham on ire.
Software Zen: delete this;
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iReckon
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Where did you get that? My little phony?
Life is too shor
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It all depends upon what kind of hangups you have.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Call them, whatever you like.
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MacSpudster wrote: are they not a phony?
“The true definition of a phony is a high flyer with low mileage; a person who offers a worldview from the comforts of his/her living room.”
― Johnnie Dent Jr.
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approximately...since I had my last Pretzel.
But I can quit anytime I want.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta tomorrow (noun): a mystical land where 99% of all human productivity, motivation and achievement is stored.
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Mike Hankey wrote: But I can quit anytime I want.
That's pretzel logic. 
/ravi
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Pretty twisted right?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta tomorrow (noun): a mystical land where 99% of all human productivity, motivation and achievement is stored.
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And baked right in.
/ravi
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If it was 3 hours 14 minutes and 15 seconds that would have been a pie.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
If a coffee bean is between the Earth and the Sun, is it a Java Eclipse? -- Sascha Lefèvre
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I like pie too!
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta tomorrow (noun): a mystical land where 99% of all human productivity, motivation and achievement is stored.
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