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Data Organization (lemmy.ml)

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[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 56 points 3 days ago

I shit you not, IT around 2004, I had a nurse who stored all her important docs in "Recyle Bin"

She put in a ticket that her computer was slow. We scheduled a time to look at it and made sure she knew to be there.

When I showed up, she had left to go to lunch on purpose so she could take a free long lunch. I asked her manager to call her back in, she refused.

I diagnosed she was out of space, and emptied her bin.

That did not end up going well.

She was furious, Her boss was mad. My boss was pissed that it happened but considered it reasonable since she refused to be there.

I spent the better part of 4 hours undeleting deleted recycle bin contents which is WAYYYYYY harder than undeleting deleted files. They're already UUID's and bringing them back into existence will not put them back in the recycle bin, all that meta is gone.

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 days ago

Well duh.
It is a recycle bin after all.
The thoughts will be reused at some point for something new /s

[-] sleen@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Project designer: the project function is self explanatory.

User:

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago

I asked her what the fuck she was thinking later in the process. She knew that files weren't supposed to be there She just thought it was a good idea, and was very defensive borderline offensive about being able to store files wherever she wanted.

My first inclination was she was just putting non-work-related stuff in there so that her manager would never see it. But no, there were hundreds of megs of work related stuff. I recommended she not store the 500 megs of personal digital camera fodder on what computer if she was that tight on space. Hard drives of this era were only a handful of gigs large. She just flipped out some more demanded a bigger disc. I had a private consult with her manager and mentioned that We could get a bigger desk but it was going to come out of her budget. She declined.

A year later we did SOX compliance and as part of that we deleted emails over 3 months and deleted any recycling bin data over a month old. I made sure her manager noted this and that it would delete her preferred file storage and never heard another word out of them.

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[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 109 points 3 days ago

I often catch myself using Downloads to store a very suspicious quantity of files.

[-] marsza@lemmy.cafe 50 points 3 days ago

Yes. Downloads is the way.

If you want to make yourself organize better, set up a cron to remove all downloads older than 7 days 😳 then you’ll be efficient—and probably have nightmares.

[-] ScintillatingStruthio@programming.dev 24 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

No,I'll just disable the cron job before it executes and forget about it.

[-] okr765@lemmy.okr765.com 43 points 3 days ago

😳 > du -sh Downloads 168G Downloads

[-] GreenMartian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 3 days ago

You're a massive du -sh

[-] notarobot@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 days ago

Downloads is usually my largest folder. Funny thing is that it is literally all just Linux isos because I'm trying some things with servers

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[-] Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago

wtf is an SDD?

[-] Henson@feddit.dk 8 points 1 day ago

Super duper drive ...

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[-] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 56 points 3 days ago

If you call the bottom picture a "Data Lake" you can IPO and walk away with millions

[-] thejml@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 days ago

"Unstructured Data".

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

It's horizontal scaling!

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[-] weariedfae@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 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.

[-] askat@programming.dev 2 points 17 hours ago

I call it "Purgatory"

[-] sykaster@feddit.nl 2 points 2 days ago

The most items I had on my work desktop was 1366, they were overlapping on my screen and windows+D would lag the whole computer. It was glorious.

[-] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 34 points 3 days ago

Anyone who uses YYMMDD instead of ISO 8601 needs to be fed feet first into a wood chipper.

[-] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 points 6 hours ago

I assumed they meant it like 2025-08-18…

Though TBF I sometimes rename files using the terminal and go mv $file "some_name_$(date +%s),ext"

[-] absentbird@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago

ISO 8601 is YYYYMMDD (or YYYY-MM-DD in extended format)

Are you really going to wood chipper someone for leaving off the leading 20? I think we can safely infer the century and millennium with a high confidence, why not trade them for two extra name characters?

[-] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 25 points 3 days ago

As an old person who has archives dating back to the 90s, yes.

[-] ScintillatingStruthio@programming.dev 9 points 3 days ago

So do I, but I don't think I need to worry too much about confusing them with 2090.

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[-] 5C5C5C@programming.dev 11 points 2 days ago

I recently had an accountant file something for the IRS that was dated as expiring in 1940 when it should've been 2040. I had to catch it myself after reading through 70 pages of dense forms before it was sent off, and I could've easily missed it.

Digital records have existed long enough now that it's downright irresponsible to leave off the century for anything where having an accurate date might even slightly matter.

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[-] sk1nnym1ke@piefed.social 9 points 2 days ago

New_document.docx
New_document_1.docx
New_document_111.docx
New_document_12.docx
New_document_12aaa.dox
New_document_12aaafinal.docx

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[-] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 29 points 3 days ago

I’ll say that as much as I love Apple and macOS, Finder has some pretty terrible defaults that make file management pretty difficult for the average user. The default “All Files” view is atrocious.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago

Not being able to create a file
Folders aren’t by default listed at the top
Spring-loaded folders are hit or miss
No good intuitive way to set defaults for ALL folders at once
No good intuitive way to reset any folder defaults
.DS_Store and ._DS_Store (nuff said)

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[-] conartistpanda@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Just put it all in the same folder and call it something like:

20250816_ProjectType_ActualNameHere_v001

[-] londos@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

How about New folder (11)/Final/Final2/TO DELETE/New version/DO NOT DELETE/20250816_Version 4

[-] conartistpanda@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Mmmmm... Just format the hard drive.

[-] mfigueiredo@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

P.A.R.A. - It's a simple organization method and very easy to maintain.

[-] luciferofastora@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

This is really damn good. Thanks for sharing it!

[-] lessthanluigi@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

> says SSD
> shows a symbol of an HDD

> MFW most people don't care because they understand the nuance of communication except for me

[-] Manalith@midwest.social 10 points 2 days ago

Actually it says SDD. Must be referring to those SeaGate hybrid drives, but even those are referred to as SSHD, so I'm at a loss for what they mean.

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[-] Visstix@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

That's clearly an ipod

[-] 30p87@feddit.org 18 points 3 days ago

"SDD"?

[-] probable_possum@leminal.space 22 points 3 days ago

"SDD"?

Yes. Solid Disk Disk.

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[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 16 points 3 days ago

I think most computer users now don't know that file systems exist

[-] dan@upvote.au 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Especially younger people. They're used to files just... being there on their phone. Photo albums? Nah, just scroll though every photo you've ever taken to find the right one.

That, and having powerful search functionality + tagging has made perfect folder structures less of a requirement. I've never had trouble finding documents in paperless-ngx just by searching, for example.