CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet
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I'd very much like to hear who all of you organise your family pictures and videos, and how you and your family view them?
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I'm finally gonna tackle the jumbled, duplicate filled mess that is my
There are a few things I haven't made my mind up on though. Here are the questions I've been asking myself.
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I'm finally gonna tackle the jumbled, duplicate filled mess that is my
Pictures_and_Videos
Dataset but I'm undecided on how to do it. There is two things I'm set on though, first being that I';ll be creating a new Dataset. There's some unrelated weirdness with the current Dataset that means that I'll be creating a new Dataset and moving files to it as I sort them. I also be renaming everything so that all the files start with the date they were created (YYYY-MM-DD_HH.MM.SS), so that I can sort everything chronologically.There are a few things I haven't made my mind up on though. Here are the questions I've been asking myself.
- What do I do in the event that a files original creation date is not available?
- Should I have nested
Pictures
andVideos
Datasets? I've always read that Datasets should be used when you want to treat the data within it differently to other data. In my case, the only way I can think of that I'd treat them differently is in the event that I wanted to replicate just the pictures or just the videos, and possibly if I wanted a different snapshot schedule as I backup more pictures, more often than I do videos. - How granular I should be with sub-folders... should I have sub-folders for each year? each month? etc.... I'm leaning toward no, as this'd mean that family events that take place at the end and beginning of a month, such as the Christmas period or a vacation, would be in seperate folders.
- Should I have all the files of a given type (e.g. all pictures) in one, single folder? The upside of it would be that everything would be in chronological order but the downside is having a folder with several thousand files.
- Should I use hardlinks and do both 3 and 4?