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How to organise files?

Organisation is important in our everyday lives. We organise things so that they don't get lost, or are easy to find when we need them. Everyone has their own organisational scheme. I am going to go over some basics and some more advanced organisational techniques for organising your computer files.

Basic Organisation

For starters, lets go over basic organisation of your files. Preset into your operating system, you will have locations designated to help you keep track of your stuff. You will hav downloads, music, pictures, documents, and maybe even videos. As the words describe these folders, evidently, we are going to want to put the appropriate files in each folder so that we can find what we are looking for later. Saving to desktop can be a common practice. Just about everyone does it, it is fast and convenient. However, we should not let our desktop get cluttered. We should when we are done, move the files to appropriate locations. Keeping your desktop clean, can increase computer performance in older machines. If you need to find something fast, rather then save it to the desktop, save it to your documents and send a link to your desktop. Rather then have a large file on your desktop, have a 3kb link to it. For something like pictures, you may find that if you have thousands of pictures, you might not want to just stash them in your pictures folder. You might want to make folders to classify your items. You can set up a date by date organisational setting.
Pictures taken on a specific date all go in a folder named that date and the location.
Example.:June_3_The_Beach, if you don't want to use underscores, consider using a naming method called Camel casing. June3TheBeach. You can tell by the uppercase letters when a new word starts. I recommend avoiding using spaces in folder names.

Advanced naming conventions

Naming conventions are terms used for a style of naming, used to keep the names of files similar for efficiency purposes. An example would be a file name like FileName_V001. Files that you are working on, such as images, movie edits, or other projects that progress in completion where making a change could effect the outcome of the project. Hence, you might want to make periodic saves so that you can go back to an earlier point before you made a dramatic change that you made some saves with. An example is, every time you went to save, you saved a new file as FileName_V002, the next save would be called FileName_V003 and so on. This way you will avoid conflicting file names, and you will be able to access previous versions.

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