• weariedfae@sh.itjust.works
    14·
    28 days ago

    Ok. Calling me out like that. It’s fine, I deserve it.

    I store everything “temporarily” because “I’ll sort it later” on the Desktop.

    It’s never later.

  • Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world
    12·
    29 days ago

    Man, I hate my moms pc folder layout, like why do you have Documents folder inside of documents folder inside of Documents folder? Why do you create excel sheets inside Downloads folder when you didn’t download them???

    • unphazed@lemmy.world
      2·
      29 days ago

      My actual desk and office - messy. My desktop - folder, folder, 4 shortcuts. My phone -groups of apps ordered by function - Pebble, Office, Entertainment, etc. My garage - absolute hoarder nightmare from hell cause I just can’t seem to get to it. Why I can be ordered in one area and not in another is beyond me.

  • NJSpradlin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    29 days ago

    I find myself having too many nested folders, and I’m just a normie. I wonder how deep they go for you tech people.

    At some points, Windows won’t let me change the file name because it was too long and I’m assuming the file path to it plus the ridiculously long name (“person last name, first name - type of document (purpose) yyyymmdd”) just breaks Windows.

    Sometimes I have to copy those files to my desktop just to rename the new file, so that I can upload the file to an online system that only lets me upload files with names under 42 characters long. It’s wild.

    • bitjunkie@lemmy.world
      6·
      29 days ago

      This was one of the reasons I quit trying to develop on Windows way back when. I had a very well organized system of subfolders for all my code, and it was literally running into some kind of path length limit trying to import deeply nested dependencies in certain projects. This was WELL into the era of 64-bit computing, absolutely no excuse other than Microsoft taking shortcuts.

      • ScintillatingStruthio@programming.devEnglish
        4·
        29 days ago

        I still run into this issue when one of my company’s clients requires developing on Windows. Doesn’t take many subfolders before node_modules just starts breaking.

        There are lots of reasons I hate developing on windows and that’s certainly one of them.

    • Eheran@lemmy.world
      4·
      29 days ago

      You can enable long names in Windows, essentially removing that restriction and giving you the power of all the sub folders up to something like 26’000 characters.

      1. Open the Registry Editor.
      2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem
      3. Find the LongPathsEnabled DWORD value, double-click it, and set its value to 1
      4. Restart your computer
      5. Be free and happy
    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      29 days ago

      Too deep.
      I am having a peoblem bwcause sometimes I broke my own rules or sorted every itme in it’s own folder.

  • gerryflap@feddit.nl
    2·
    28 days ago

    Hmmm yeah. But most of it lives in an automatic cloud backup as well… Photos, important documents, game saves, programming projects. I’ve lost drives before and apart from one or two moments where I couldn’t find a very specific file I didn’t really miss anything. The only things that I really do need to backup at the moment are my music projects and the raw files from my photography

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
    1·
    29 days ago

    Shouldn’t it show the directory the file is in instead of just showing them grouped together? Or is Projects 2 through 4 in the Project 1 folder and ditto with all of the experiment folders?