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Maccabee
I like keeping my computer organized but it has gone a little out of control.
I organized my photos but have yet to organize my documents.
But mainly I want to know how you organize your photos? Cause I have a folder for gimp "creations" and I always keep the editable file as well as a png right next to eachother.
But eventually this will get out of hand.
I realize this thread cant get to much depth but I appreciate your help.

A clean freak,
-Joseph
manny-the-dino
I do the same thing. I have a "Photoshop" folder where I save the PSD & PNG just incase I want to edit the PSD again. And I keep my personal pictures separate.
technicolour
I even boil my organization down to subjects.

Creations >> Icons >> Heroes ; Gossip Girl ; LOST ; Misc
There are more too, those are just the only ones I can think of without looking at it.

I'm not too OCD. It just makes finding things easier.
Maccabee
Exactly!
I have
webcam
phone
bros cam
photoshop
gimp
vacations
folders of vacations in it
wallapapers 1440x900
wallpapers 1280x800
Website pics
one website of mine's pics in it
and a few other websites...
yada yada yada
technicolour
I started to organize my resources too by creator. Started to meaning I only did like 3 folders. Heh. I have 5 gigs of resources alone.

Thank GOD for external hard drives, man.
emberfly
I always save my gimp sessions... the .xcf files. I have tons all over my computer.
technicolour
^ ?

Oh. I posted this when you said nevermind...
Maccabee
Dude...whats up with you emberfly? Chill?! And quite with the random spam everywhere.
I can never manage to fill my hard drives with stuff...
How much space does your itunes and stuff take up?
I have like 5gb in the music folder and my whole pictures folder is like 2Gb sad.gif

I want to be able to use my 160Gb external hard drive...
emberfly
^ 4chan has me freaked out.
Maccabee
Me too...
technicolour
QUOTE(JosephCohen123 @ Jan 28 2009, 11:55 PM) *
Dude...whats up with you emberfly? Chill?! And quite with the random spam everywhere.
I can never manage to fill my hard drives with stuff...
How much space does your itunes and stuff take up?
I have like 5gb in the music folder and my whole pictures folder is like 2Gb sad.gif

I want to be able to use my 160Gb external hard drive...



Pfffttttt. I have 14 gigs of music. I love music.

Over time, trust me it'll all add up. Mine is almost half full and I've had it not even a year.
Maccabee
if i had a constant flow of itunes money id prob have 500Gb of space used up. haha.
I heard you can run itunes with all of your music on a external hard drive. So no computer space is used.
emberfly
itunes is a waste of money :O! There are soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo many ways to get free music.
Maccabee
All illegal. I choose to do it the right way.
technicolour
QUOTE(JosephCohen123 @ Jan 29 2009, 12:14 AM) *
if i had a constant flow of itunes money id prob have 500Gb of space used up. haha.
I heard you can run itunes with all of your music on a external hard drive. So no computer space is used.



That's what I do. It's all on my external. My laptop HD doesn't have much on it. Just a few programs and stuff.
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