Thread: How to organize stuff in my computer

I've got a lot of documents saved in my computer, currently just about 12k. 3/4ths of them are ebooks and the rest are text files without various information.

I'd like to know 2 things :

1. Is there any software specifically meant to organize PDF's eg: Tagging the contents and names of pdf files with search fecility etc. ( I don't want to use generic search utilites google or copernic search )

2. Is there any software which can store all data in various categories (tech, tips , error codes etc) again with search and tag fecility.

start off with deleting some of those e-books .

i dont know of such a software. But i shall look and report if i find 1.

Originally Posted by rajan1311

start off with deleting some of those e-books

:lol:

I havent heard of any such software, why you got so many ebooks, save them on a hard disk instead!

I do it manually. I have 6 partitions in HDD. And renamed them for storing each types of content.

1. System Files (OS & important files)
2. Program Files (For installing Software & Games)
3. Multimedia Files (Storing Graphics, Music & Video files)
4. Application Files (Software, Game and other set-up files)
5. Others (Ebooks, tutorials, guides & all other files)

6th one is used for Linux.

i too organize it with drives allocated for the each content types.


movies,
software,
games,
etc

Originally Posted by Preeti_20

I havent heard of any such software, why you got so many ebooks, save them on a hard disk instead!

Yea have it on HDD oly, but question is how to sort it out.

You are asking y so much stuff ?

Blame navgemi for his gr8 jokes and you guys for giving so many tips and having a soln for almost every problem

@Archer

If i create anymore partitions , I'll prolly run out of drive letters for portable devices and emulated drives...

Originally Posted by newprouser

Yea have it on HDD oly, but question is how to sort it out.

You are asking y so much stuff ?

Blame navgemi for his gr8 jokes and you guys for giving so many tips and having a soln for almost every problem

@Archer

If i create anymore partitions , I'll prolly run out of drive letters for portable devices and emulated drives...

OMG !!!!! Dude u have a serious problem !!! Get rid off all that Junk lol !!!
Have never seen sooooooooooooooooooooooo many partitions.

Originally Posted by rajan1311

OMG !!!!! Dude u have a serious problem !!! Get rid off all that Junk lol !!!
Have never seen sooooooooooooooooooooooo many partitions.

Seems its in my jeeens...:lol: my mom has problems about throwing away old clothes and stuff like tat...
.......and I jus can't delete those low res photos or dos gamez or those math ebooks... :lol:

Originally Posted by newprouser

@Archer

If i create anymore partitions , I'll prolly run out of drive letters for portable devices and emulated drives...

How did you create that many Partitions ? What's your HDD capacity ?

You can try what I did. I have created Folders & subfolders & sub-sub folders inside each of those disks.

Originally Posted by Archer

How did you create that many Partitions ? What's your HDD capacity ?

You can try what I did. I have created Folders & subfolders & sub-sub folders inside each of those disks.

Ya maddnessing insn't it.. have only 160 GB (1 st 4 partitions) and 500 GB disks


Folders & subfolders & sub-sub folders is exactly what i have now, but to organize them is complete headache

Back-up some of them in DVDs. Else you will lose all the valuable data if something happens to HDD. And decrease the number of partitions to 5-6. Put them to a common category. eg: Instead of Movies, Music, Photos all of them in 1 Disk named Multimedia.

Originally Posted by Archer

Back-up some of them in DVDs. Else you will lose all the valuable data if something happens to HDD.

My cousin has a complete backup of my system (sans the OS and personal data which i keep in portable HDD.) in his HDD as well as portable HDD.

[/QUOTE]And decrease the number of partitions to 5-6. Put them to a common category. eg: Instead of Movies, Music, Photos all of them in 1 Disk named Multimedia.[/QUOTE]

I like the idea , but still partitons is quite not my problem now. The thing is i store most of the information like tips ,jokes, how to's in separete files , so if i want to find them, its like i've open couple of files to find the right one.

If i could store it in a database with certain tags it'll be easier to find , I though somebody might be using such s/w.

I have never stored that much files in my Computer. I only keep important files & delete or burn to CD/DVD the other files. I also like to keep things clean (clean not organize ). So don't know any such utilities. I will post if find one. There are some software to replace default Windows Explorer. That might work for you.

Originally Posted by Archer

I have never stored that much files in my Computer. I only keep important files & delete or burn to CD/DVD the other files. I also like to keep things clean (clean not organize ). So don't know any such utilities. I will post if find one. There are some software to replace default Windows Explorer. That might work for you.

thanks

Originally Posted by rajan1311

OMG !!!!! Dude u have a serious problem !!! Get rid off all that Junk lol !!!
Have never seen sooooooooooooooooooooooo many partitions.

IBF is nt going to vanish anytime soon ..... u can access it in internet naa ?? y store it in your comp ?

Otherwise use online storage .... Open a mail copy paste contents and save it as a draft .... y waste the free space they give you

u can reduce the load on ur HDD

PS : Wrong quote

Originally Posted by ShAdOwCoN

IBF is nt going to vanish anytime soon ..... u can access it in internet naa ?? y store it in your comp ?

Otherwise use online storage .... Open a mail copy paste contents and save it as a draft .... y waste the free space they give you

u can reduce the load on ur HDD

:lol: :lol: yea it won't vanish, If i have net no problem, oly the contrary will be a problem.

Originally Posted by Archer

How did you create that many Partitions ? What's your HDD capacity ?

You can try what I did. I have created Folders & subfolders & sub-sub folders inside each of those disks.

I GUESS WE CAN CREATE 23 PARTITIONS.

I.E 26 ALPHABETS - 3 FOR FLOPPY DRIVE=23 ALPHABETS OR DRIVE.
THAT'S WHY OUR HARD DISK PARTITIONS START FROM "c"

Originally Posted by newprouser

Yea have it on HDD oly, but question is how to sort it out.

You are asking y so much stuff ?

Blame navgemi for his gr8 jokes and you guys for giving so many tips and having a soln for almost every problem

just asking, out of curiosity!

Originally Posted by Preeti_20

just asking, out of curiosity!

yea i get it

Originally Posted by prasannaganesh

I GUESS WE CAN CREATE 23 PARTITIONS.

I.E 26 ALPHABETS - 3 FOR FLOPPY DRIVE=23 ALPHABETS OR DRIVE.
THAT'S WHY OUR HARD DISK PARTITIONS START FROM "c"

You mean 24 don't ... only two are reserved for floppy A,B

nthin to say, absolutely nthin to say. i give up........

Originally Posted by Evander Leopold

nthin to say, absolutely nthin to say. i give up........

What d'ya mean give up... u've got lot more data than I do...

there are many ebook cataloging software...one of them I've heard of is ebook lib pro.
Haven't used these personally since my ebook collection is pretty well organized.

Originally Posted by powerdoc

there are many ebook cataloging software...one of them I've heard of is ebook lib pro.
Haven't used these personally since my ebook collection is pretty well organized.

thanks , i will search for it..