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How do you guys organize your hard drives? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Spirit-Subject@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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I have short films, projects that never got made, personal photos, ones of friends, clients, old family ones .. i do some writing and store different documents. I want to have a Mari Kundo type hard drive.

Do you guys have any tips? Or some industry standard I’m not aware of?

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[–] postmodern_spatula@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

YYMMDD - ProjectName

That alone should take you pretty far.

If you need to just catalogue and organize your regular photography create a primary folder of photography, and every shoot day is it’s own sub folder. If you own more than one photography device (camera + phone maybe) you can mark each folder by device like:

YYMMDD - DeviceName

You can get way more complex beyond this…but (ISO format) date + description is the fundamental building block.