i find people that dont organize their own files to be funny, when they decide to finally organize they complain that it "takes to long", "its to hard", or "I got better things todo."
There is now way around it, you have to spend time organizing your files & it takes a long time todo it, espically if you never organized them in the 1st place.
the easiest thing todo is create one personal folder, & move or copy/paste all your files into that. take a break & come back another day. now create folders in your personal folder of whatever(i would use the folders labeled as pictures, videos, music, Work, School, Work Resume, Reading/Word Docs, Other to start off with).
I had a vague idea back in 1996 of how computer technology was goona be like in there future( hard drives getting bigger & cheaper over time) & how the windows 95 OS maybe like( my guess was how the sorting of files would not change much over the years) in the future. So i began early on organizing as my personal files grew over the years.
For me i used originize all my files into one personal folder. But now since my Video collection has grown so large i just put all my videos(movies, music vids, etc...) on its own hard drive.
I have 3 hard drives. My main hard drive(400G) i use to host the OS & any games i dont mind loosing should i have to reinstall the OS.
2nd HD i use to hold my personal stuff, plus any games to be installed that i dont want to reinstall should i loose the OS( like World of Warcraft once upon a time)
3rd HD i use to hold videos.
Over time i have learned that this configuration for me is ideal. Everything on my main HD is totally replaceable(eventhough it may be a pain in the ass to reinstall everything). Should i even think a virus/trojan/ OS is corrupt, i physically disconnect my 2nd & 3rd HDs from the system untill my main OS is cleaned out or reinstalled & then i scan the hell out of my other 2 HDs when the OS is back up & running on the main HD. I also back up my other HDs to external HDs every 2 months or so, incase my 2nd & 3rd HD become corrupt/infected.
Between those 2 methods i have saved all my files. only thing i would loose is about 1 to 2 months worth of files. i find that largely perferable to loosing everything.
on my 2nd HD:
All my files(non video) in my personal folder i contain largely as:
*pics
* family pics(with further sub folders to dates or locations or events family/friends went to)
*numerious other folders with pictures
*Resume
*music
*numerious cosplay/sci-fi folders of costumes i want to make
*stories read
*stories new(these 2 folders are largely fan fiction i liked so much i decided to save them or stories i havent gotten to read yet).
*Avatars
*Zombies(zombie related stuff i place here
*Numerious other folders
* webpage(stuff i have had backed up saved when i had a personal webpage up)
* works in progress(things go here that i have been working on but have not finished)
Z_temp(a temporary folder to place all items i save that i dont know where i want to place when i download something)
on my 3rd HD i use for movies i organize it like this:
*Movies
*Blueray/HD movies
*New Movies(all new movies i get i place here, when im done watching i move said movie to either of the 2 above folders).
The best thing i can recommend to anyone is once you got all the stuff organized, get an external 2TB HD, & back up stuff you dont want to loose every 2 months or so.
