Organizing Media Files

[KimberlyGreen]

I posted about my method a few years ago. It started as a reply to someone’s thread and then got forked to its own posting. My method hasn’t changed since the posting. Here’s the link …

Organizing Media and Data

If you’re interested, here’s how I organize my media. Since one of your goals is to make people easier to locate, my method might give you some ideas. First, I store media by macroscopic categories. Within those categories, there may be sub-categories. For example, in the Census folders, there are further subs for year. See screen cap: [01] For the media themselves, I name them by what the source is. Using Census as an example again, the typical filename goes from largest to smallest compo…