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echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
grouped by date

sorted by name

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echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
post your favourite way to sort folders itt

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
windows gives you choices. almost all are very wrong

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
finder on macos is a disgrace


it just lets every file have an icon and sit all over one another with no rhyme or reason. steve looked at an contrast scan of his metastasis and said this is how I want my file explorer to look

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
LC_ALL=C

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
most people just look at "recent files" and have no concept of folders or file system

Pollyanna
Mar 5, 2005

Milk's on them.


I KNOW OK MY LIFE IS A MESS IT’S HARD AND I LIKE TO EAT GARBAGE AND SLEEP A LOT WHAT DO YOU WANT LEAVE ME ALONE oh this is a computers thing. ls -lah | sort

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

heapsort

git apologist
Jun 4, 2003

Silver Alicorn posted:

most people just look at "recent files" and have no concept of folders or file system

citation needed

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



echinopsis posted:

post your favourite way to sort folders itt

on the desktop, new folder, new folder (1), new folder (2), etc

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

one thing i like or at least got used to in windows was opening a directory and all of the subdirectories are sorted and displayed first and then files follow. i dont like it when its pure alphabetization and files and folders are interspersed with one another.

post hole digger
Mar 21, 2011

i dont want pure sorted by type either, that has its own problems.

Branch Nvidian
Nov 29, 2012



echinopsis posted:

grouped by date

sorted by name

this is how i do my file sorting, op. it works very well. sometimes i also further group by file type

git apologist
Jun 4, 2003

i like using various ls flags to sort my files op. but in this busy modern world, sometimes tools like fzf, zoxide, and alfred are helpful to find just that special file i’m looking for

Branch Nvidian
Nov 29, 2012



git apologist posted:

citation needed

the verge, so grain of salt and such
https://www.theverge.com/22684730/students-file-folder-directory-structure-education-gen-z

e: just remembered i know someone who blamed this article, literally all of it, on apple

Branch Nvidian fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Feb 29, 2024

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

Cat Face Joe posted:

on the desktop, new folder, new folder (1), new folder (2), etc

not going to post mine it's too embarassing

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

graph posted:

not going to post mine it's too embarassing

arrange by penis

Elder Postsman
Aug 30, 2000


i used hot bot to search for "teens"

was going through old files on my power mac and



good stuff

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
I put everything important on the D: drive

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
well, I put important important stuff on my iCloud Drive in very badly organized folders

root of all eval
Dec 28, 2002

Elder Postsman posted:

was going through old files on my power mac and



good stuff

This

code:

Desktop
> Old4
  > Old3
    > Old2
      > Old

root of all eval
Dec 28, 2002

ur mom backs up on my D:/

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
tbf often the desktop is the handiest location for something



what’s real dangerous is a folder hidden somewhere in documents that’s secretly got 14 gigs of rubbish in it and it’s holding your computer hostage

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
just use wiztree you moron

root of all eval
Dec 28, 2002

ur mom backs up to my wizztree, moron

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



root of all eval posted:

ur mom backs up to my wizztree, moron

wish you'd wizz on back to the top of the tree (the forums tree, gbs)

SpaceAceJase
Nov 8, 2008

and you
have proved
to be...

a real shitty poster,
and a real james
Desktop\old\stuff\aaa\old\

OldAlias
Nov 2, 2013

graph posted:

not going to post mine it's too embarassing

lol same

Cat Face Joe
Feb 20, 2005

goth vegan crossfit mom who vapes



📁 pornography




          📁 not pornography

polyester concept
Mar 29, 2017

SpaceAceJase posted:

Desktop\old\stuff\aaa\old\

this is the way

tk
Dec 10, 2003

Nap Ghost
Old
Old.2
Old2
Old.backup
Old.backupnew

Sweevo
Nov 8, 2007

i sometimes throw cables away

i mean straight into the bin without spending 10+ years in the box of might-come-in-handy-someday first

im a fucking monster

Silver Alicorn posted:

I put everything important on the D: drive

022924
Mar 1, 2024

Somebody fucked around with this message at 07:29 on Mar 1, 2024

based64
Feb 15, 2024

:question:

based64 fucked around with this message at 03:49 on Apr 8, 2024

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jammyozzy
Dec 7, 2006

Is that a challenge?
All of work's part numbers start with a numeric project code and it's fascinating watching different software gently caress up sorting them


I know it starts with a larger digit but '20' does not come after '1000' argh :argh:

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