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by mikewarot 1648 days ago
The only thing I enforce structure on are my photos, which go in C:\photos\source\yyyy\yyyymmdd\

The camera makes a new folder every time the image number rolls back to 0000, or 1000 photos are taken... those subfolders get moved into the above folder.

I never edit a photo, I always work on a copy. The last time I edited a photo directly, I downsampled the best photo I ever made of a friend by 1/4, and couldn't recover it. It's been decades since that day, and that mistake, and that new rule, and he's since passed. It's a lesson I'll never forget.

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Programming projects get a folder on C:\, and I copy the .gitignore from y last project to exclude a ton of crud from the repo. Everything gets pushed to github, private or public depending on the nature of the code.

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Additionally I back up everything to backblaze because it's saved my bacon a few times already.