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new year. new possibilities. i have promised myself to use january to tighten up my data situation. i started on pc, was working only on pc for many years, and have a pc in the studio, but use a mac laptop for live work. i have gathered projects and different stuff on external hard drives, no logical backup - system, just a backup here, a backup there, one backup of a project here, one dvd there, one cd there, i must have 6 or 7 external drives lying around with too many backups of the same projects.
so, i am tightening up my shit.
how do i do it? what do you do? how do you stay organized? what is a good way to organize the files, the archives of the old projects, all the music, the movies, the software, the samples, the projects that never became anything but might in the future, the lyrics, the finanical info... how on earth do you stay organized in the computer age?
i am asking for details. the logics behind how you build up your folders and disks and files. cause no matter how hard i try, its always... mixed up somehow. some folders or files just dont fit within the system, baby!
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01/02/08
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xik
Its probably easier just to get a new big drive, transfer what you need to it ect. I usually make backups of important nfos to dvd, applications, ect.
But audio is just too much to back up to anything other than another HD for me.
I have a work folder thats sectioned into engineering, audio, web, video ect, in audio is a sample archive folder which houses most of my samples, although recordings related to the specific track are always in a recordings folder for each project, folder, project as in like ep, style or whatever, not like a recordings for each seperate song, although thats probably smarter haha.
Imho it really isn't worth the time trying to rar/ archive stuff, its just easier to get a big drive these days and move on with life  .
01/03/08
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dach
wipe it all. you'll get new, fresh space to work in
01/03/08
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prugelknaben
hahahaha thats probably true. i seem to think that i will always at some point, come back to my old stuff, discover the genius of it, brush it up, release it and have warp sign me.
01/03/08
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dach
I just went through 2007's work and picked out the best couple of mp3's. Ill go through a few of the old projects soon and see if anything is worth rendering out to wavs. Ill make a long mix of everthing, then wipe all the source files. Its just too much junk, and I prefer writing new stuff over reworking the old. Hard to let them die though.
01/03/08
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la0la0la
1 back up folder that you can back up to regularly
then all current projects have a folder then sub folders for individual songs
backing up to ftp server can't hurt either if you got the space
i put finished mixes on a server just in case.
buy a big hd and stick it all on and use backup software to schedule this
01/03/08
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mulletballet
I've spent days moving things around -- I ended up getting a 500gb NetDisk to move things on to... I had three hard drives in my desktop computer before I got rid of it and went "notebook-only" -- the two non-system drives contained folders like "old 80gb drive" which had a folder called "old 40gb drive" which had a folder called "old C backup from 3.2gb drive" -- believe me, it was quite an undertaking.
When I put it all on the NetDisk -- I made a "music projects" folder. Underneath that -- Samples - FLStudio files - Reason Files - Hammerhead Files - the samples folder has a lot of sub-folders, for drums, pads, strings, etc. etc. etc.
I name all my songs by date, followed by whatever title. "2007-11-24-stupidrumloop" or whatever, so they sort in chronological order.
but hey, that's just one way of doing it.
I back those folders up on to a 35gb REV drive on occasion, and make DVD copies of the folders every few months just to be on the safe side.
01/03/08
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airliner
I just bought two identical 500gb hard drives. One is my normal storage, with my media files, backups of music I'm working on, sample library, documents, etc. Eventually, I'm planning on backing up my 150gb system drive to it as well. The second hard drive is a weekly copy of the first drive, and not used for anything else. If the first drive ever goes south, I lose a week of work/downloads/whatever at the most. Anything really important gets backed up to DVD as well, or put on my webspace if it's not a giant file. I've lost too many hard drives to trust them for long
I try to organize my files logically and consistently too. All my music projects go in one folder, with subfolders for projects (Live Set, Templates, New Album, Old Fragments, Remixes, etc) And individual subfolders for final mixdowns, containing session files and rendered tracks. Incremental saves get moved into another subfolder periodically, so I don't get confused about which file is the latest version. I name those consistently anyways, so I don't usually lose track, but you never know.
01/04/08
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prugelknaben
haha mullet thats exactly my situation. moving from computer to computer, getting new ones over the years, not having time to do things properly, my disks look exactly the same. so i will have backups of my old laptop in a folder on the old desktop that will be backed up on an external drive that will be backed up on the new external big drive and so on...
i got myself a new machine for the studio, a pc, 6 months ago, with lots of space. now i am just collecting everything from all the harddrives there, trying to remove the garbage, and then back it all up on mozy, see how that works.
still confused about the logics of how to organize stuff, so many different projects. i am trying to have one drive for the work i am doing right now, ideas, project, and a giant folder with subfolders with samples, one drive for (other peoples) music, software and movies, and one drive for archive, old projects. still get confused tho.
maybe it will work, i am especially curious about how the mozy.
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