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I've had my iMac since 2009.
27" display is still awesome.
Took 2-3 days to get used to but now I love the mouse. Way better than any MS or Logitech mouse I've used.
I have the full-size USB keyboard which has 2 Delete keys - one acts as a "standard" delete key (deletes character to the right) and the other as a "standard" backspace key (deletes character to the left).
FYI - Even on the smaller Apple keyboards with only one delete key you can press Fn + Delete to get the opposite effect.
My iMac is 7 years old, still as fast as ever, never hangs - runs like a dream. I find that pretty special.
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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Martin Molin's "Wintergatan" [^]. 2000 marbles, 3000 parts.
Martin's web-site: [^].
Wow !
«In art as in science there is no delight without the detail ... Let me repeat that unless these are thoroughly understood and remembered, all “general ideas” (so easily acquired, so profitably resold) must necessarily remain but worn passports allowing their bearers short cuts from one area of ignorance to another.» Vladimir Nabokov, commentary on translation of “Eugene Onegin.”
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Incredible! Thanks and 
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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For those who wonder, Wintergatan means Milkyway.
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I do prefer my music small batch and hand rolled.
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Marbellous! 
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Absolutely amazing! 
What worries me, though, is him clearly loosing his marbles at the end
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I just did a search for "Organizing Your Hard Drive" on this site (using two or three different phrases) and found nothing, so I thought I would ask.
Pre-Question before the main question: Did I miss the obvious ? Is there a topic or group for this already ? If so, please point me.
Main question: How do you arrange your hard drive ?
I just don't like the way mine has evolved into such an obfuscated convolution of DISorganization.
My not-so-perfect inventory of my drive shows me...
- Folders: 116,354
- Files: 620,448
...which is plenty good enough for our purposes here.
That's an average of 5 or 6 files per folder, which is an absolutely inaccurate way of understanding the numbers. The arithmetic average is by no means truly "average" as we humans understand the word.
I want to start a couple of home study courses, and I have this belief that my disorganized hard drive is going to thwart all efforts before I begin the first one.
Conversely, I have a sincere belief that an organized drive would significantly enhance and greatly increase my ability to absorb the knowledge that I'm trying to acquire.
So I'm up for suggestions and ideas on how other people have approached this.
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I tell the drive where I want it to put stuff and the drive seems to obey. Even if it really doesn't, it makes it seem like it obeys.
Really, now - you organize a hard drive (or refrigerator, for that matter) based upon your particular needs. You simply put things in places where you'll be able to find them again, preferably conveniently and from wherever you need to access them from later. If you never need to access a file again then you probably don't need it to begin with.
Really!
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Since years I organize my PC in a "system drive" on which in only Windows and the installed apps. For my data and even ALL download I use an extra drive.
So I am only one step away "formatting and reinstalling" windows and most of all: I know where all my data is.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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I do exactly the same. I have good reasons for using a separate drive for data:
1. It means I can make an image for the systems drive only, in case I ever need to restore it. I don't want such images bloated with a pile of data folders. Image files are large enough as it is.
2. It's easy to backup data only. Just make sure everything important on the data drive is backed up to an external drive. Since I have images of the systems drive, I am not concerned about backups for that drive.
If I am attacked by a virus, like the ransom virus, I simply restore the systems drive from a recent image, and the data drive from the external backup. Images and data backups are kept in separate external drives that are normally disconnected, to avoid infection.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Aha
Hardware config affects software config affects user experience.
Yes, good sense, both of you.
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I use something like:
\dev
\dev\desktop\
\dev\desktop\C#\<individual proj names >
\dev\desktop\python\<indvidual proj names >
\dev\
\dev\web\<individual proj names>
\dev\web\<sample>\js\
\dev\web\<sample>\css\
\dev\web\mvcProjects\<individual projects>
\data\
\data\write\
\data\write\<proj name="">
\data\
This works well and allows me to find things relatively easily.
However, admittedly, I often spread stuff around and gunk it up a bit and lose things. 
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Most of mine are stacked in a pile next to my NAS, sitting in a 3.5" hotswap tray, but some are in a USB enclosure. The older ones are sitting in a box under my desk, waiting to be wiped with DBAN and then sent for recycling.
Oh, you mean organizing files. Never mind.
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I've been meaning to organize my hdd, but it seems like the main point of that is to know where to find files and for that I just use Everything Search Engine[^]
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Very nice find.
Nice looking website. His first impression is excellent.
The rest of the idiots who are cluttering the screen could take some instant lessons from that guy.
Thank you very much. I think I'll try that before I spend hours and money on a philosophical/emotional restructuring.
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I've been using that for many months, and find it an invaluable tool. The initial indexing does take a few minutes, but then I have 172,053 folders and 4,466,927 files on my disk. Once the indexing is done, even wildcard search is almost instant.
Just to make a point, I've used Windows Explorer to try and find those numbers, but at the time I'm writing this it's only halfway done counting, whereas Everything (which I started later) has long finished indexing, creating the searchable database, and providing the results.
P.S.: Windows Explorer eventually finished, but for some reason it only displays 170,071 folders and 4,494,444 files - I have no idea why it's missing some 2000 folders and more than 170,000 files 
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
modified 3-Mar-16 2:48am.
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'Sbeen a few hours since I downloaded this ... a few less since I uninstalled it after an install.
Did accepting the default settings make an "OK" button visible in that sparse GUI window you get before your uninstall or did you just know intuitively to wait for some asylum tokens to come down the pike in the form of normal GUI things like ... buttons .. to appear?
I might try to reinstall this. 'All depends.
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There are no buttons, only a menu bar at the top. It is what it is: a file search window, so all it really needs is the text field to enter the (partial) file name you're looking for (it is located directly below the menu bar), and the result list, which fills up once it's done indexing.
There is no need to [start] the search - it starts instantly (showing the full file and folder list), and corrects the result list with every single letter you enter in the search box.
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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Not only that,,,,
But,,,,
The Author Responded To A Question From Me !!!
I put up a question, something like, "...Do you suggest the x64 or the x86 version for a machine with blah-blah-blah ?..." with my E-mail address, on his "contact us" page.
A few hours later I saw an answer, equally simple, one line, x86 for performance unless your tree is super huge; or something like that.
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Agreed, I don't know what I did before I found Everything.
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Ditto on the directory organization ... but I use Copernic Desktop Search (http://copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/). It has good file previews. It is most useful for finding code I've written before in previous applications. Search, preview in CDS and copy/paste if you need to. It's not free, but it's not expensive.
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Thx, it looks useful. The one area where Everything is lacking is that it doesn't look inside files like Copernic can. For finding previous code Visual Studio's search (shift+ctrl+f and setting the options for directory and file type) works pretty well.
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