• undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch
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    2 hours ago

    I’ll say that as much as I love Apple and macOS, Finder has some pretty terrible defaults that make file management pretty difficult for the average user. The default “All Files” view is atrocious.

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      1 hour ago
      1. Not being able to create a file
      2. Folders aren’t by default listed at the top
      3. Spring-loaded folders are hit or miss
      4. No good intuitive way to set defaults for ALL folders at once
      5. No good intuitive way to reset any folder defaults
      6. .DS_Store and ._DS_Store (nuff said)
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    1 hour ago

    I find myself having too many nested folders, and I’m just a normie. I wonder how deep they go for you tech people.

    At some points, Windows won’t let me change the file name because it was too long and I’m assuming the file path to it plus the ridiculously long name (“person last name, first name - type of document (purpose) yyyymmdd”) just breaks Windows.

    Sometimes I have to copy those files to my desktop just to rename the new file, so that I can upload the file to an online system that only lets me upload files with names under 42 characters long. It’s wild.

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      19 minutes ago

      In my obsidian notes folder, i have

      • 01 - Inbox
      • 02 - Breadbox
      • 03 - Data

      .

      • Inbox is for newly created notes
      • Breadbox is for notes that i need to reference or otherwise want quick access to
      • Data is for everything else

      For file navigation, i use links and references within the notes themselves, which creates a network of linked files that is far far easier to navigate than folders


      Everything else is sorta all over the place, but in general

      • ~/Documents
        • dumping ground for important documents, folders are arbitrarily made as I go
      • ~/Downloads
        • dumping grounds for downloaded things, generally important files are moved elsewhere
      • ~/Code is where i put all of my personal projects and other junk related to programming

      ~/ is the user home directory

      • C:\Users\Name for windows
      • /home/name for linux

      For pictures, i use a self hosted Immich instance

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      40 minutes ago

      You can enable long names in Windows, essentially removing that restriction and giving you the power of all the sub folders up to something like 26’000 characters.

      1. Open the Registry Editor.
      2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem
      3. Find the LongPathsEnabled DWORD value, double-click it, and set its value to 1
      4. Restart your computer
      5. Be free and happy
    • ma1w4re@lemmy.zip
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      42 minutes ago

      My paths are pretty short ngl /home/user/devel/projects/android/testproject/ Probably is the longest one. Or maybe even /home/user/devel/lessons/dotnet-aspnet/exam/AspnetExam/xxxroot/libs/bootstrap-icons/ But that one is temporary, I’ll archive it once it’s done

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      47 minutes ago

      In my projects folder I have an “all” folder where I store all my projects. But back at the projects folder there are others like “by-client”, " by-language", and “by-date”. When I make a new project I create it inside the all folder, and then place shortcuts inside the corresponding folders.

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        34 minutes ago

        I do something like:

        FY > Month > Section (personnel, operations, or logistics) > and whatever task from there for my main day-to-day stuff

        But, for operations outside of the monthly sort, like managing personnel training, it gets really weird;

        Training > FY > department > categories of training > subcategory > individual person’s folder for the course > application folders with dates (the last folder here is when the one that got approved and they’re going to the school on).

        This one is where I end up with file names I can’t rename.

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      1 hour ago

      What is this “desktop” of which you speak?

      Is that what’s under all these files?

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    1 hour ago

    Shouldn’t it show the directory the file is in instead of just showing them grouped together? Or is Projects 2 through 4 in the Project 1 folder and so are all of the experiment folders?