How Do you organize your files?

Well The best thing to do to organize the hard drive is to have a lot of folders. But I don't make folders for everything. I try to categorize the content of the files and use a folder hierarchy to store the files. And it's always a good police to make backup of files as well as have the antivirus up to date.

My hard disk is pretty organized. About once a month i revisit some of the older files and delete whatever is unnecessary. Otherwise it creates such a clutter and piles up so that you dont feel like clearing it. Better to go one folder at a time and delete the unwanted stuff.

Surprisingly my hard drive is organized really thoroughly. I have all my files put into folders with sub-folders etc. All my installed programs and new downloaded applications are installed on the C Drive. In the D drive is where all the 'music', 'pics', 'personal documents', 'other people's documents' so and so forth are arranged. Each of the folders have sub folders so that it's easy for me to know where everything is placed. To instantly clear up your hard drive - just create some folders with main headings and separate the everything into them. This is for instant results i.e. folder for Astrology, EBooks, HTML files, & Interesting Stuff. Once you've got the main folders created, you can then go through what you have in there and create sub folders from there :) Happy clearing !

What about another hard drive or an external one? I have had the same problem with you as I have music, ebooks and other stuff that took many spaces. Then now I am putting most of them in an enternal hard drive. It is easy to get any when you want as it is a usb drive. If you don't like such a big stuff, maybe you like to burn some out to save and delete them from your computer. But whichever way you use, be careful to save more than one copy of them, just to make sure they won't get lost if anything go wrong with any drives. :)

ouch this is a subject i dont like to talk about. all my work papers are very organized on my comp but apart from that i have files everywhere cause i have about 5 different hard drives and they tend to flow over to one another every now and again when i forget to burn stuff. cheers Plunt

For me i label my files according to its content, so its much easier to search for the files that you'd look for. Also that one is right, you can partition your hard drive so it wont mess up with the programs installed and the files stored on your drive. And don't forget to back-up your files just in case your system crashed so you wont feel bad. Burn your files on a cd or if you have an extra hard drive you can back it up there for safety measures.^.^I hope this can somehow help you because this is how i handle my stuff.

by sorting in file use auto sort thank you

I manage all my files in my Think Free Virtual Office http://www.thinkfree.com It really is the only way to go, especially when you need to free up space on your hard drive or access your files from a remote location! :) It's free to use, too! I got a bunch of other resources on my profile, and you are very welcome to take a look for anything else you night need! :)

If you save most of your files in a hard disk, it is also good that you keep files in removable disks, such as cd's or cdrw's. Do not save too much files on your hard disk as it will slow down the functioning of your computer. Apart from saving files in a removable device, it aslo recommended that you keep a hard copy of these files. And when you organize your files and folders, do so in such a way that will be easy for you to access and easy for you to remember.

I only stored some pictures of the family and music collections i have downloaded here, and some programs of course to install or in reformatting purposes if my computer needs reformatting.

My hard disk (and gmail) is terribly well-organised. You see, I am a freak who is very much bothered when things get cluttered and disorganized. I like to know where my things are. Though I can't tell you the exact location of anything - like the book titled "ABC" is located on the 3rd shelf on the right, besides the book "DEF", and number 6th in the row - I can at least know the vague whereabout of anything.

I organize my files in different drives and in the drives i make different-2 folder for diff-2 purposes and if there is need then i again categorize items/files by making folders...

Hello there! I am Angel from the Philippines. I always organize my files here in my computer. Even the photos have separate folders like family photos, relatives, funny, etc. Also the files for the resort, the shop, the e-mails are all grouped according to certain classifications. I also delete files that are not needed anymore as soon as I can.

This is how I organize my Hard Disk : First, I have to say that I hate when all is in the same partition. For me, I must have 2 partitions : one for installed programs (C:), and an other for pictures, music, documents.. (all that I want not to be erased !!). So : C: - Program Files - All my installed Programs And : D : - Music (per style) - Photos (per theme) - Documents (Word, Excel.....) - Musical Production - My Free Projects - My Commercial Projects - Virtual Synthetizers - Samples - Programs Setups - Prog (My C/C++ Projects, PHP & HTML...) And that's all ! So, it's really well organized, and I like it !! Also, I own an other hard disk, in which there is the image of my first disk, in case of an eventual crash ! I think that will help you in you organization, this is mine but it can help ;) Bye

Well i keep it date wise but not on a regular basis..

Actually I organize according category. I'm into writing, so I have a fiction file where I put my stories and novels. I have another file for fiction instruction, vocabulary. I have a sheet music file, two foreign language files, a fan fiction file, photo file, finance file, etc. You get the general idea. If it is on a particular research, I keep that in one file, and if there are not that many or I have no idea I put them in a miscellaneous file. You see, I am a little bit lazy and I want to find something in a second instead of five minutes and this makes it easier.

as for me i have made seperate folders for my different stuffs like photos, books, pics; and whenever i save something i always save it in the folder it belongs. also i haven't cluttered my c drive very much with these stuffs as last time when my hard drive crashed i lost all my stored music.:( now i keep them in d folder because that way i m able to restore them in such cases as crashing. i think more the mess on the computer more lazy it makes u when it comes to look into them!:)

yes, I have a lot of folders in my hard disk. the ones that i always use, examples are the files in the office are organized. but the files that are not that often used are often misplaced and i always forget where i put them.

SInce we have 3 partitions,C:, D: and E:, I decided to have C: for program files because there are really a lot of programs you need to install. Then the D: are for our own documents, like words or excel or pdf. Included in this compartment are some pictures too. And from here we made our own folders (since we are only sharing folders with my family). In my folder, I made another different folders for word and excel or for work and other stuff. You can decide. The D:, we used it to store music and videos. The reason for having our documents in D: is that when we reformat our computer, our files won't be affected.I t would still be saved. And from time to time I check on each of our hard disk if it needs defragmenting. That's how i do it or how we do it.

NO I never organize my files! so my things usually lose but I don't know