• ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 days ago

      Typically, whatever I’m doing I have a history of doing before, and can anticipate whether I’ll need <10, <100, etc. folders, and name accordingly.

      I also name my month folders “01 - January” and my date folders YYYY.MM.DD so they sort properly. I really hate when people use MM.DD.YY in folder names–or even worse M.D.YY. Fuck those people.

      • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        11·
        4 days ago

        OR

        1
2
3
...
8
91
92
93
...
98
991
992
993

        repeat

        (Basically, when you get to 10, instead of using 10, add a 1 after 9 to make it 91, then continue with 92. Instead of 100, make 99 to 991, then continue with 992, etc…

        • Vigge93@lemmy.world
          3·
          4 days ago

          Wow, this is great! Works perfectly if you only care about the order of the files. However, if you wanted e.g. the 238th file or know which index file 99993 is, that’s a bit more of a headache.

          You’ll also run into filename length limits quite quickly, since the number of files scales linearly with the number of characters in the filename, compared to exponentially with the 01 method.

          • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            3·
            4 days ago

            Um…

            Okay so if you ever run out of character spaces, create another folder. Don’t rename it yet. Select all folders, and then un-select your new folder. Move then all those folders to the new folder. Name the new folder “1”, then create a folder “2”. Any new folders should be inside this folder “2”. The original folders are now referred to as “Level 1 Inception”, your new folders “1” and “2” are now “Level 2 Inception”

            Whenever you run out of name length for your “Level 2” folders, you do the same trick and now you have 3 levels of Inception.

            You could do this infinitely (until your system crashes).

  • OmegaLemmy@discuss.online
    4·
    4 days ago

    Now that I think of it my folder structure is so fucked Here’s the picture: I have a 3tb SSD, and in that I have five folders, let’s focus on the folder named ’ archive’. I was so lazy that instead of filtering through my old shit so that archive is neat and tidy, I just copy pasted it in. For your information, the shit I copy pasted into archive has the same folder names as one folder upwards, so there is basically two exact schemas just a folder down

    And in the archive folder, there is another archive folder. It’s filled with garbage.

    Oh, besides my SSD, the exact same folder has its copy in my own home folder and they’re both pinned, but they don’t mirror so I sometimes have to check the archive, sometimes the home, sometimes the one that stores the archive

    Hahahahahahahahabababa