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keithinkorea
Joined: 17 Mar 2004
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 Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:24 am Post subject: Computer Spring cleaning |
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Well I've owned a computer for quite a few years now. I've got a digital camera with loads of big pics, loads of mp3s, movies, loads of documents of different types.
I'm doing a bit of spring cleaning and wonder how other folks organise all the data we all pick up over the years?
My MP3 collection is getting out of hand and is immense, a lot of it is actually jam sessions I've had and got recorded plus stuff I've recorded of the net. Plus a load of stuff I can't get here. MP3 is the hardest thing as I have thousands of files and a lot of it is crossover stuff.As an expample is Frank Zappa rock, blues, Jazz, Classical, comedy or whatever for instance. That artist is all those things and more! How do you folks go about organising your data?
What are other people's methods for organising gigs and gigs of data and making it all easy to access. I'm struggling to find a good 'system' to organise all my data so I can find it quickly and easily. What do you guys and gals out there do? |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 8:40 am Post subject: |
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| Burn it to DVD and catalogue it. What else can you do? Keep buying hard drives? |
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keithinkorea
Joined: 17 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 9:10 am Post subject: |
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Well I've been going the burning data DVD route for large files like movies and also have two respectable size hard drives in my machine(a 60 and an 80 gig).
I just wonder about what strategies you folk use for small files like MP3 and pics. It is mind boggling to think about cataloging all this info. I'm working on it but it is a huge task. |
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the saint
Joined: 09 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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| keithinkorea wrote: |
Well I've been going the burning data DVD route for large files like movies and also have two respectable size hard drives in my machine(a 60 and an 80 gig).
I just wonder about what strategies you folk use for small files like MP3 and pics. It is mind boggling to think about cataloging all this info. I'm working on it but it is a huge task. |
Well, for photos and videos, Adobe Photoshop Album 2 makes for a great cataloging tool. You can cross reference stuff too. Not only that but (I've just tested this) you can import mp3 files into it too. You can add tags, even multiple ones, to each item in the catalogue, create your own tags and then sort by these tags which makes for very efficient filtering. I have at least 6gigs of photos on my drive there.
One thing that makes this a good solution to your problem is that you don't have to have stuff physically on your HDDs to catalogue it. You can catalogue stuff from removable drives. The software then creates an icon from the pic/vid/mp3 with a little symbol on it showing you that this is on a DVD/CD and telling you the name of the disk so you can insert the disk to retrieve the media.
I can't think of anything else that will serve you better really... |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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I don't let things accumulate to the point where I have a mountain of data in front of me to do something with. I keep folders on the hard drive for MP3's, Photos, Videos, Programs, etc... . When this folder reaches 4.5GB, I re-cull it to make sure it's as I would like, then burn it right away.
Anyone who has had a hard disk go south probably does it this way for files they just can't or don't want to lose.
For me, a hard disk id very, very temporary and I think it would serve most users well to do the same. It's not a viable long-term storage solution. Magnetic media is the most prone to all kinds of things. Much more so than optical. |
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zappadelta
Joined: 31 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 5:31 am Post subject: |
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Burn it, organize it, it's not that hard
what kind of zappa you got? |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 8:56 am Post subject: |
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| And DO NOT buy cheap DVDs. Buy something good, like Verbatim or Sony. And make sure they're packed and sealed in their own container. |
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keithinkorea
Joined: 17 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 12:14 pm Post subject: |
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| zappadelta wrote: |
Burn it, organize it, it's not that hard
what kind of zappa you got? |
There is only one kind of Zappa and none of them smell like fish!
I've got some Zappa but I have a lot more back in blighty!.
I'm going to PM you zapadelta. |
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