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[–] Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] conartistpanda@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Just put it all in the same folder and call it something like:

20250816_ProjectType_ActualNameHere_v001

[–] londos@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

How about New folder (11)/Final/Final2/TO DELETE/New version/DO NOT DELETE/20250816_Version 4

[–] weariedfae@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Ok. Calling me out like that. It's fine, I deserve it.

I store everything "temporarily" because "I'll sort it later" on the Desktop.

It's never later.

[–] sykaster@feddit.nl 2 points 28 minutes ago

The most items I had on my work desktop was 1366, they were overlapping on my screen and windows+D would lag the whole computer. It was glorious.

[–] sk1nnym1ke@piefed.social 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
  • New_document.docx
  • New_document_1.docx
  • New_document_111.docx
  • New_document_12.docx
  • New_document_12aaa.dox
  • New_document_12aaafinal.docx
[–] devilish666@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I wish someone make github but for documents. Image your documents can be forked by someone and has many branches and revisions, it must be hilarious.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 1 points 28 minutes ago

You just described SVN. It's what we used before the invention of git. And is still used today for team projects that use complex file formats, like images, binary blobs, 3d models, that sort of stuff. It will work with any files.

[–] EvilCartyen@feddit.dk 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

You can literally just upload a library of documents to github or another repo service like codeberg. That's basically what a code project is, a bunch of files.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 1 points 28 minutes ago

The main difference being that code is typically stored in plain text files, where you can more easily compare and merge differences, while some other document types are harder to diff usefully. That doesn't mean you can't use git to keep their version history, it just means resolving merge conflicts might be a bitch.

[–] mfigueiredo@lemmy.world 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

P.A.R.A. - It's a simple organization method and very easy to maintain.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 1 points 35 minutes ago

This is really damn good. Thanks for sharing it!

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 2 points 10 hours ago

Hmmm yeah. But most of it lives in an automatic cloud backup as well.. Photos, important documents, game saves, programming projects. I've lost drives before and apart from one or two moments where I couldn't find a very specific file I didn't really miss anything. The only things that I really do need to backup at the moment are my music projects and the raw files from my photography

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 48 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

I shit you not, IT around 2004, I had a nurse who stored all her important docs in "Recyle Bin"

She put in a ticket that her computer was slow. We scheduled a time to look at it and made sure she knew to be there.

When I showed up, she had left to go to lunch on purpose so she could take a free long lunch. I asked her manager to call her back in, she refused.

I diagnosed she was out of space, and emptied her bin.

That did not end up going well.

She was furious, Her boss was mad. My boss was pissed that it happened but considered it reasonable since she refused to be there.

I spent the better part of 4 hours undeleting deleted recycle bin contents which is WAYYYYYY harder than undeleting deleted files. They're already UUID's and bringing them back into existence will not put them back in the recycle bin, all that meta is gone.

[–] sleen@lemmy.zip 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Project designer: the project function is self explanatory.

User:

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 hours ago

I asked her what the fuck she was thinking later in the process. She knew that files weren't supposed to be there She just thought it was a good idea, and was very defensive borderline offensive about being able to store files wherever she wanted.

My first inclination was she was just putting non-work-related stuff in there so that her manager would never see it. But no, there were hundreds of megs of work related stuff. I recommended she not store the 500 megs of personal digital camera fodder on what computer if she was that tight on space. Hard drives of this era were only a handful of gigs large. She just flipped out some more demanded a bigger disc. I had a private consult with her manager and mentioned that We could get a bigger desk but it was going to come out of her budget. She declined.

A year later we did SOX compliance and as part of that we deleted emails over 3 months and deleted any recycling bin data over a month old. I made sure her manager noted this and that it would delete her preferred file storage and never heard another word out of them.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 19 hours ago

Well duh.
It is a recycle bin after all.
The thoughts will be reused at some point for something new /s

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Apparently ISO 8601:2000 allowed YY-MM-DD, but the 2004 version does not.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago
[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

> says SSD
> shows a symbol of an HDD

> MFW most people don't care because they understand the nuance of communication except for me

[–] Visstix@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

That's clearly an ipod

[–] Manalith@midwest.social 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Actually it says SDD. Must be referring to those SeaGate hybrid drives, but even those are referred to as SSHD, so I'm at a loss for what they mean.

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 hours ago

So i not the only one who misspells. Cool!

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 102 points 1 day ago (11 children)

I often catch myself using Downloads to store a very suspicious quantity of files.

[–] okr765@lemmy.okr765.com 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 20 hours ago

You're a massive du -sh

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[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 30 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

Anyone who uses YYMMDD instead of ISO 8601 needs to be fed feet first into a wood chipper.

[–] absentbird@lemmy.world 20 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

ISO 8601 is YYYYMMDD (or YYYY-MM-DD in extended format)

Are you really going to wood chipper someone for leaving off the leading 20? I think we can safely infer the century and millennium with a high confidence, why not trade them for two extra name characters?

[–] 5C5C5C@programming.dev 8 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

I recently had an accountant file something for the IRS that was dated as expiring in 1940 when it should've been 2040. I had to catch it myself after reading through 70 pages of dense forms before it was sent off, and I could've easily missed it.

Digital records have existed long enough now that it's downright irresponsible to leave off the century for anything where having an accurate date might even slightly matter.

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[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 23 points 21 hours ago (17 children)

As an old person who has archives dating back to the 90s, yes.

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

So, was the time of murder 20th of October 2021 - 1:25 PM or 21st of October 2020 - 1:25 AM?

Depending upon that, you may/may-not have an alibi.

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[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If you call the bottom picture a "Data Lake" you can IPO and walk away with millions

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 12 hours ago

Time series

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[–] Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world 15 points 21 hours ago

Man, I hate my moms pc folder layout, like why do you have Documents folder inside of documents folder inside of Documents folder? Why do you create excel sheets inside Downloads folder when you didn't download them???

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