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Jerry Feldman-2 wrote: > > Basically, my personal solution is to use a hierarchy... > Hah! Hierachy... :^) I tried. What I ended up with over the past 12 years or so are multiple not-quite-curated copies of various collections: photos, letters, programming projects, etc... subdivided by year or topic or some such system. These partial clones are in various stages between fully synced and abandoned, and you can never tell if any changes in an "abandoned" copy ever propagated upstream... wherever upstream is. Laptops die or get sold in a hurry; external hard drives get called into emergency service and their contents is unceremoniously dumped in ~/limno/brendan's_blue_ext_disk on the office PC; I'm sure you all know what I mean. So what I was forced to start, a few months ago, and I haven't gotten a chance to finish is this: * Admit that after all the OSes I've used, file transfer protocols, filesystems, and archiving and dearchiving, file metadata is questionable at best, especially timestamp. * Use a hashing algorithm to diff every equal-sized file against every other (fslint) and produce a report. * Delete all but the first occurrence of every duplicate file. * Collate all remaining files from all storage devices onto one and name them: /from-device-n/original-path/original-filename . * Pick up the pieces, delete caches, config files, and junk, and move to /keep/collection-name/topic/filename -- still working on this step. :^) I promise I'll maintain my hierarchy and play nice with subversion and unison in the future... but it probably ain't gonna happen and we'll be back here in 2020. Maybe there's hope. My almost-plain-text notebooks have been in a single subversion repository and synced among three hosts for about a year. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Organizing-my-files-%28EASILY%21%21%29-tp24668433s24859p24691447.html Sent from the Boston Linux/UNIX General Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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