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Do you keep everything in "downloads" or have file trees 100 folders deep?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

File trees 100 folders deep lol. I keep all stuff synced across my machines, no actual backup though...

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

everything randomly distributed between ~/dl and ~/tmp (i dont even remember why i have both), and then i use lr to find stuff (alias lr='ls -lrth'). or find.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Omg now they're trying to profile where you keep your shit so their hackers can find your porn stash more efficiently. Don't tell them Pike!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

D: Downloads

Then the folders -

Films

TV programs

Software

  • Everything inside these folders is a fucking car crash
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Anything more than 5 dir deep is overly complex.

All movies are thrown into one folder called movies, every show is in its own folder with a season per folder. Jellyfin deals with that.
Music is stored by artist and thrown into the music folder.
Documents are sorted by year and purpose but are all in one folder called documents.
Books are in e-books, audiobooks are in audiobooks folders by author.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

And more importantly, how do you back up your important stuff?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I sort things every once in a while but eventually lose interest or patience. Would be nice to have a way to do it automatically. I suppose llms could help there, but I'm not sure if they're quite there yet in terms of reliability.

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