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Downloads

└─Filename preserved, ordered by date or grouped in arbitrary functional folders

Drivers

├─Video

├─Sound

└─MB

Music

└─Primary Artist

  └─YYYY.AlbumName (Keeps albums in date order)

    └─AlbumName Track# Title.mp3 (truncates sensibly on a car stereo)
Pictures

└─YYYY-MM-DD.Event Description (DD is optional)

Projects

├─scripts - reusable across clients

│ └─language

│ └─purpose

└─clientname

  ├─source code

  └─documents
Utils (single-executable files that don't require an install)

I use Beyond Compare as my primary file manager at home and work. Folder comparison is the easiest way to know if a file copy fully completed. Multi-threaded move/copy is nice too.



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