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

submitted 9 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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[–] tempo1139@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

for personal... card dumps are dated. Ideally they are separated by events and the folder named appropriately. I remember places and events more than dates. I ALWAYS include the date in folder names as attributes can change. eg 'Photos - Tasmania Trip 2022.02 (year first for sort order)

for work.. similar but Job number, customer name and date - this worked well for a lab

vid, pics in separate sub folders and 'selected' in another folder, usually RAW output only.

I recently digitized and archived my entire collection.. and my parents. Duped and backed up. It feels so good!