It’s not an app, it’s actually a very simple repo containing folders and readmes.
It’s just a folder structure, which you can use on your system. Unzip the file and slowly fill the folders with your files. I had to create(or maybe even rename/delete) some folders to adapt it to my needs. It took me around 20days during summer to organize around 2-3tb of my laptop and my external disk.
It was a kinda painful manual process, but I think it was really worth it, now things are well organized, I detected and removed hunderds of GB of unecessary/duplicate/unwanted files, it’s easier to navigate now, the structure is cleaner and syncing a big part of my drive is relatively easy now. There some files, like installed programs and their data which are in predefined paths and I didnt move those, so these were left out. Also some games save their data in Documents, so I symlinked their data in documents. And there’s the defauly downloads folder which is now more of a temporary folder for stuff I download before I move them or delete them.
There is not exactly a standard for how to orginize your files, but this repo is a very good start:)
Edit: I think organizing my files was my first step on the list in order to transition to linux, it would otherwise make it harder to properly backup and sync a mess of files gathering up for years. To sync my files to my external drive I just had to backup only ~10folders and one of which was the “root” (the one in the repo as you can see) which contained about 90% of my files. Much easier, much faster.
Taking a look now. This seems largely pretty smart. I am curious though, how much of the folder structure here felt relevant for you? For me I’m thinking it’s ~50%. I agree with you though, that it’s a good starting point. I was working on something similar in a text file a while back but never finished. Turns out, organization is pretty hard when you have collected data for 25 years.
Ok, so, it takes about 96% of the data in the home partition. Here are some screenshots of Qdirstat scans of my laptop’s 1tb ssd:
~/:
~/root/:
Many of the files here are flac files and some ancient movies I have. 😄
Also, this is a (censored) directory list of top 3 levels of the root structure (I have put some unecessary dirs in Obsolete-dirs instead of deleting them and many dirs here are either empty or near-empty, like the book categories or the chart dirs):
Btw, I have separate root, home and boot partitons on my nixos install, here’s the root partition:
/:
Lastly, the external hdd I have isn’t that organized, because many of the backup folder aren’t inside the root folder. I think putting them inside the /root/backup/ path would be the proper way, but this would probably break my backup workflow and mess with a script I have to sync my phone. I might do it one time:)
Ok, umm, I sent a lengthy response with screenshots and a dirlist to see, somehow it didnt get sent. I’ll send it again later, but it will probably take me 4hours, gonna be busy for a little while😅
(To answer your question, this structure holds around 96% of my user data.)
I found this a few months ago and after adapting it to my needs I now have my files heavily organized (makes backups much easier).
https://github.com/roboyoshi/datacurator-filetree
What exactly is the app? The GitHub page isn’t the most descriptive. How does it help you with backups?
It’s not an app, it’s actually a very simple repo containing folders and readmes.
It’s just a folder structure, which you can use on your system. Unzip the file and slowly fill the folders with your files. I had to create(or maybe even rename/delete) some folders to adapt it to my needs. It took me around 20days during summer to organize around 2-3tb of my laptop and my external disk.
It was a kinda painful manual process, but I think it was really worth it, now things are well organized, I detected and removed hunderds of GB of unecessary/duplicate/unwanted files, it’s easier to navigate now, the structure is cleaner and syncing a big part of my drive is relatively easy now. There some files, like installed programs and their data which are in predefined paths and I didnt move those, so these were left out. Also some games save their data in Documents, so I symlinked their data in documents. And there’s the defauly downloads folder which is now more of a temporary folder for stuff I download before I move them or delete them.
There is not exactly a standard for how to orginize your files, but this repo is a very good start:)
Edit: I think organizing my files was my first step on the list in order to transition to linux, it would otherwise make it harder to properly backup and sync a mess of files gathering up for years. To sync my files to my external drive I just had to backup only ~10folders and one of which was the “root” (the one in the repo as you can see) which contained about 90% of my files. Much easier, much faster.
Taking a look now. This seems largely pretty smart. I am curious though, how much of the folder structure here felt relevant for you? For me I’m thinking it’s ~50%. I agree with you though, that it’s a good starting point. I was working on something similar in a text file a while back but never finished. Turns out, organization is pretty hard when you have collected data for 25 years.
Ok, so, it takes about 96% of the data in the home partition. Here are some screenshots of Qdirstat scans of my laptop’s 1tb ssd:
~/:~/root/:Many of the files here are flac files and some ancient movies I have. 😄
Also, this is a (censored) directory list of top 3 levels of the
rootstructure (I have put some unecessary dirs inObsolete-dirsinstead of deleting them and many dirs here are either empty or near-empty, like the book categories or the chart dirs):root
root ├── Archives │ ├── Backups │ │ ├── Accounts │ │ ├── [Censored] │ │ ├── [Censored] │ │ ├── Linux-Transition [DELETE ONCE TRANSITIONED] │ │ └── [Censored] │ ├── Datasets │ │ ├── Research │ │ └── Statistics │ ├── Health │ │ ├── [Censored] │ │ └── [Censored] │ ├── Logs │ │ ├── AppList │ │ ├── [Censored] │ │ ├── Battery_report │ │ ├── Chkdsk │ │ ├── Crystal Disk Info │ │ ├── FileStructureList │ │ ├── Logs from when disk cloning failed in october 2021 │ │ ├── Nox- vmlogs │ │ ├── Robocopy │ │ ├── Stellar phoenix - best photo recovery │ │ └── VirtualBox │ ├── Manuals │ │ └── Anduril 1 UI │ ├── Obsolete-dirs │ │ ├── News │ │ └── Scientific │ ├── Reciepts │ ├── Trip_documents │ │ ├── [Censored] │ │ ├── [Censored] │ │ ├── [Censored] │ │ ├── [Censored] │ │ └── [Censored] │ ├── Websites │ │ ├── Curiosity.com │ │ ├── Ebay.com │ │ ├── Friv.com │ │ ├── Parametrek │ │ ├── UNI-T - Uni-trend.com │ │ ├── Xiaomi.eu │ │ └── Youtube │ └── [Censored] ├── Assets //Note: here I thought of putting files │ │ //related to education (like school) and possibly work too │ ├── [Censored] │ │ ├── [Censored] │ │ └── [Censored] │ ├── [Censored] │ │ └── [Censored] │ └── [Censored] │ └── [Censored] ├── Audio │ ├── Download-lists │ │ ├── Shazam │ │ └── Spotify │ ├── Downloads │ │ ├── 1T │ │ ├── deemix Music │ │ └── Soulseek Downloads │ ├── Music │ │ ├── Flac │ │ ├── LRC_Backup │ │ └── Opus │ ├── Obsolete-dirs │ │ ├── Books │ │ ├── Podcasts │ │ ├── Soundfx │ │ └── Soundtracks │ ├── Playlists │ │ ├── Sabaton │ │ └── Song ratings │ ├── Recordings │ │ ├── B1 Zertifikat Hoeren │ │ ├── ECCE listenings │ │ └── Morphvox samples │ └── Web │ ├── Bandcamp │ ├── Deezer │ ├── Radio │ └── Youtube ├── Desktop-shortcuts │ ├── Game-Making - Creativity │ │ ├── 2D-3D Design │ │ ├── Misc │ │ ├── Music │ │ ├── Programing │ │ └── Video │ ├── Obsolete │ ├── System-Tools │ │ └── GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} │ └── Unused ├── Documents │ ├── 3D Objects │ │ ├── 3D Builder │ │ └── 3d stuff │ ├── Logitech G502 │ ├── Touch Typing │ └── [Censored] ├── Downloads ├── Games │ ├── Party │ ├── Sport │ │ ├── Competitive │ │ ├── Mind │ │ └── Physical │ ├── Tabletop │ │ ├── Board │ │ ├── Card │ │ ├── Dice │ │ ├── Pen-and-paper │ │ ├── Rpg │ │ ├── Strategy │ │ └── Tile-based │ └── Video │ ├── Arcade │ ├── Browser │ ├── Computer │ ├── Console │ ├── Handheld │ └── Mobile ├── Hobbies │ ├── Drone │ │ └── Hubsan H501S-S │ ├── Electronics │ │ ├── DPS5020 module │ │ ├── DPSsupplier-master │ │ ├── Falstad │ │ └── RidenPowerSupply_V1.0.0.9 │ ├── Flashlights │ │ ├── D25l - Sc31Pro - SP36BLF - UV │ │ └── Nov-Mu │ ├── Gym │ │ ├── Exercises │ │ ├── FastnFitness │ │ └── Wii Fit Plus │ └── Youtube │ ├── 100kv Voltage booster module │ ├── [Censored] │ ├── TEMPGUN-Adobe │ └── YT Logos ├── Images │ ├── Artwork │ │ ├── Digital-art │ │ ├── Drawings │ │ ├── Logos │ │ ├── Paintings │ │ └── Sculpture │ ├── Charts │ │ ├── Area-charts │ │ ├── Bar-charts │ │ ├── Bubble-charts │ │ ├── Flowcharts │ │ ├── Infographics │ │ ├── Line-charts │ │ ├── Maps │ │ ├── Matrices │ │ ├── Mind-maps │ │ ├── Miscellaneous │ │ ├── Organizational-charts │ │ ├── Pie-charts │ │ ├── Sankey-diagrams │ │ ├── Spiral-diagrams │ │ ├── Treemaps │ │ ├── Venn-diagrams │ │ └── Wordclouds │ ├── Emojies │ │ ├── Discord Emojies1 │ │ └── SignalEmojies │ ├── Icons │ ├── Obsolete-dirs │ │ ├── Animated │ │ ├── Memes │ │ ├── Photos │ │ └── Purpose-based │ ├── RandomPhotos │ │ ├── 2018-02 │ │ └── [Censored] │ ├── Screenshots │ │ └── Obsolete-dirs │ └── Wallpapers ├── Imports-Exports │ ├── Adobe │ │ ├── After Effects CC 2018 │ │ ├── Photoshop │ │ └── Premiere Pro │ ├── Audacity │ │ ├── Army or not │ │ └── Sabaton OverdriveV2 │ ├── Blender │ │ ├── 1st Game │ │ ├── BlenderGuruTutV2 │ │ ├── blenderkit_data │ │ ├── D20 │ │ ├── Flashbang Day │ │ ├── Gabbitt tut │ │ ├── NodesTut │ │ ├── Nov-Mu │ │ ├── [Censored] │ │ ├── UFO │ │ └── YT-Intro │ ├── Bottles │ │ ├── Bottles-Apps -> /home/bs/root/Software/Applications/Linux/Bottles-Apps │ │ ├── Bottles-Games -> /home/bs/root/Games/Video/Computer/linux/Bottles-Games │ │ ├── Configs │ │ └── Full-backups │ ├── Browsers │ │ ├── Chrome │ │ └── Firefox │ ├── ChoEazyCopy │ ├── Dss │ ├── Freecad │ ├── GDevelop │ │ ├── endless_runner_resources │ │ ├── My project │ │ ├── My project10 │ │ ├── My project11 │ │ ├── My project12 │ │ ├── My project13 │ │ ├── My project2 │ │ ├── My project3 │ │ ├── My project4 │ │ ├── My project5 │ │ ├── My project6 │ │ ├── My project7 │ │ ├── My project8 │ │ ├── My project9 │ │ └── Sparkman-GD5 │ ├── Gimp │ │ ├── [Censored] │ │ ├── Manual │ │ ├── Polo-bag_color-transformation │ │ ├── RandomMaterials │ │ └── [Censored] │ ├── Inkscape │ │ └── Tutorials │ ├── Keepass │ │ └── Keepass-Database │ ├── Krita │ ├── LTspiceXVII │ │ ├── examples │ │ ├── lib │ │ └── Projects │ ├── Meshroom │ ├── Notepad++ │ ├── OBS │ ├── Olive-Video-Editor │ │ ├── [Censored] │ │ └── We are Doomed │ ├── PowerBI │ │ └── [Censored] │ ├── Random_Configs │ ├── ShareX │ ├── Siril │ └── Unity ├── Literature │ └── DDC │ ├── 000 - COMPUTER SCIENCE. INFORMATION. GENERAL WORKS │ ├── 100 - PHILOSOPHY. PSYCHOLOGY │ ├── 200 - RELIGION │ ├── 300 - SOCIAL SCIENCES │ ├── 400 - LANGUAGE │ ├── 500 - PURE SCIENCE │ ├── 600 - TECHNOLOGY │ ├── 700 - ARTS. RECREATION │ ├── 800 - LITERATURE │ └── 900 - HISTORY. GEOGRAPHY ├── Software │ ├── Applications │ │ ├── Android │ │ ├── Ios │ │ ├── Linux │ │ ├── Mac-osx │ │ ├── Mac-ppc │ │ ├── Win32 │ │ └── Win64 │ ├── Firmware │ │ ├── Android-dev │ │ ├── ESP2866 │ │ ├── PL2303TA │ │ └── w10_stop_reset_fileasso │ ├── Scripts │ │ ├── C │ │ └── Python │ ├── Source │ ├── Systems │ │ ├── Apple │ │ ├── Apple Inc │ │ ├── Commodore International │ │ ├── IBM │ │ ├── Linux │ │ └── Microsoft │ └── Typefaces └── Video ├── Movies │ ├── Animated │ └── Live-action ├── Obsolete-dirs │ ├── Discs │ └── Vhs ├── Screen-Recording ├── Series │ ├── Animated │ └── Live-action ├── TAINIES PAIDIKES │ ├── Ant-Man 2015 HDTS x264 AC3-CPG │ ├── dukes-of-hazard │ ├── Epic (2013) [3D] [HSBS] [Greek Audio] │ ├── FROZEN 720p Greek Audio │ ├── gnom │ ├── HOODWINKED_2_TOO_HOOD_VS_EVIL.2011.GREEK_AUDIO │ ├── Hotel.Transylvania.2012.TS.XviD-RESiSTANCE │ ├── HOT_WHEELS │ ├── Ice Age Continental Drift 2012 Greek audio │ ├── Jurassic World 2015 1080p BRRip x264 DTS-JYK │ ├── knight-Rider │ ├── masoulamitigris │ ├── MIKROI-EINSTEIN │ ├── O_Mikros_Nikolas_2_Hmera_Podosfairou │ ├── Planes-greek-audio │ ├── RANGO_SIM_TM │ ├── Rio 2 (2014) DVDRip x264 AC3 5.1 Greek Audio │ ├── SM_Title12 │ ├── spiroynatosgr │ ├── Sport.Vendeta.Billy.GreekStars │ ├── st_poyli │ ├── taglykakia │ ├── TA MYALA POU KOUBALAS │ ├── The Amazing Spiderman 2 2014 DVDrip Xvid Ac3-MiLLENiUM │ ├── The.Lorax.2012.Greek audio │ ├── The Pirates! Band of Misfits 2012 Greek audio │ ├── Wreck it Ralph 2012 TS READNFO x264 AAC-UNiQUE │ ├── xaroumenapodiaGR │ ├── xelonakia │ └── xugo720BLURAY └── Web └── YoutubeBtw, I have separate root, home and boot partitons on my nixos install, here’s the root partition:
/:Lastly, the external hdd I have isn’t that organized, because many of the backup folder aren’t inside the root folder. I think putting them inside the /root/backup/ path would be the proper way, but this would probably break my backup workflow and mess with a script I have to sync my phone. I might do it one time:)
Ok, umm, I sent a lengthy response with screenshots and a dirlist to see, somehow it didnt get sent. I’ll send it again later, but it will probably take me 4hours, gonna be busy for a little while😅
(To answer your question, this structure holds around 96% of my user data.)
Oh, dang. I appreciate that effort. Sorry that it went into the void!
Thanks. Makes sense. I’ll give it a look.