After thinking a bit about how to organize my files, I think I have a system that is more streamlined.

• Create a partition for media files (Photos, Books, Music, Videos) which may or may not be synced with other computers and backup drives
• Create an encrypted partition for data (Documents, Records, Mail, source code) which is always synced with other computers and backup drives
• Create symlinks to the (encrypted) folders that need to be mirrored online
• Run DropBox manually so that sync only happens when the encrypted folders are readable

Of course I still have separate drives for System/Program Files, Applications that don’t require installation (e.g., Eclipse, puTTy, Android SDK), and scratch. But generally that stuff is different on each computer (or don’t need to be synchronized).

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: geeky, organization