Organizing
I spent a number of hours organizing my computer today. I have a bad habit of leaving old files in a mess when I reinstall my operating system. Some stuff is still sitting on a long retired Pentium II on its SuSE 7.1 installation that got left behind when I switched to Mandrake in 2001. I'm not going back that far just now, but I am dealing with several years worth of mess.
As it stood, I had a folder in my home directory on my G5 that contained everything from my PC prior to me removing Fedora and reinstalling Mandrakelinux 10.0 in June. Eventually a copy of that will go back to the PC (as well as remaining on the Mac), but first I wanted to merge that with the directory structure I was using on the Mac. To make matters more complicated, I still had a backup folder within that backup folder of stuff I had never reorganized from when I switched from Mandrake Linux 9.1 to Fedora Core. Each of those folders had files in a number of different places and few things were properly sorted. Some of the files were duplicates, since I had started copying and reorganizing the files last year. I decided it was time to redo them so that I could easily get to my documents in the future.
So far, I've organized about half of my text and word processor documents (alas some are in the incompatible KWord format, which will require some time to convert to something I can use on my GNOME and Mac desktops conveniently), 9,066 photos, several hundred images of other sorts (animated gifs, logos from projects, etc.), 1,030 musical tracks, 107 MPEG-1 video files (from my digicam) and numerous other tidbits. My goal, by the time I've finished, is to make it so that I can call up any particular file with minimal searching. I hope I'm successful!
On another subject, today is Wictory Wednesday. It is too late to donate to the Bush campaign, but don't forget to volunteer or do other things to help the President's campaign. I'm skipping the Wictory Wednesday blogroll for today, since it will make this mostly non-political post too long. I'll post it tomorrow.
Join the Conversation
RE: Organizing
Wait a minute. You spend the entire post talking about mac, pc, fedora, mandrake, suse, leaving one distro for another etc. and you think it’s not political. Man the way I hear LiNuts go on and on about why their distro is the best, you’d think they were campaigning. Then again, it’s more like soap box evangelism. You’re right, it’s not a political post. It’s a religious one
Actually I do like linux, but it has an extremely high learning curve and I simply don’t have time to dedicate to it. I have to have this SLA done by tomarrow (so why I am reading & posting to blogs) and worse, it has to be in Word 2000 format, so I can’t even use my OpenOffice for it (incompatible formatting).
RE: Organizing
Good point, Jason. I usually pick a distro that suits my purposes best. Usually it is Mandrake, but sometimes Fedora works well. Since I review them, as time permits, I’ve installed and tested almost all of them. At the moment, though, I’m spending most of my time on the Mac — haven’t had the time to get GNU/Linux back to the way I like it lately…