how do I get motivated enough to organize my desktop /g/? Everytime

>>60621386
Great now I have cancer.

>>60621410
sorry. i just tried to organize 1 item but it was my college transcript and i dont want to delete that and I dont remember where my college folder is. I think its on the desktop.

ctrl+a
del

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>>60621459
i wish but everytime i look at each individual file its too important and i dont want to delete it. for example this folder has plugins i might want to use in a music program. cant delete that

>>60621479
>might
del
del
del

>>60621479
When you will use it - you will download it again, delete now

>>60621386
Install TempleOS

>>60621386

mkdir txt
mv *.txt txt/
mkdir png
mv *.png png/

etc. that's how I do it.
may not be the best advice since my desktop still looks a lot like yours.

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>>60621508
True. Also I never even use VST files, I use Audio Unit Files. As seen in pic related.

Ok, I will delete this. Thank you /g/

>>60621386
>Create a new folder
>Move all image files into this folder
>Create another new folder
>move all documents into this folder
>Repeat process as often as needed, for however many types of files you have
>Once your desktop is clean go into your new folders, and figure out how you want to sort shit from there

>>60621386
>New folder
>"Shit"
>Ctrl+A
>Move to
>Proceed with treatment for severe autism

>>60621531
After about a year of doing this, it only made my problem worse, cuz then my storage would get full from the fake cleanliness.

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>>60621508
>>60621488
>>60621531
>>60621537
Thanks for the help guys. Now lets move onto this folder, what even is it? It has weird files in it, I dont even know what they are

>>60621561
There are pictures from unofficial transcript.htm saved page, delete both

>>60621386
don't fucking save shit there to begin with

I think that looks pretty neat and that you should fill your entire desktop with stuff.

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>>60621595
Thanks anon, I deleted both!
>>60621620
>>60621629
>>60621537

What should I do with this great thread story I saw on /v/ a month ago. I dont want to delete it, but I don't know where to put it? I was probably trying to pick between my videogames folder and my porn folder and i think i just forgot about doing that.

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>>60621386
I've never seen a virtual hoarder. This is really amazing and I'm laughing really hard. Post more OP. Show us your collection

Why care? Does the mess make it hard for you to sleep at night?

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>>60621729
Together we are going to clean this desktop!

I think I just deleted 20 items with your guys' help. I made the icons bigger to make them easier for me to see.

Is this some kind of weird RP thread?

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>>60621822
hey anon, welcome! Where do I put this meme?

>>60621775
Protip: make a folder called "Pictures" and put it at the corner of your screen, then go through and mass-select every single image file on your desktop, then drag-and-drop them all into the folder. It'll make you feel better and won't take much time at all.

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>>60621863
I already do this, its the straglers that I dont know where to put that bother me and end up making a home on the desktop

>>60621706
Kekkeroni pls post.

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>>60621933
what should I do with this meme

>>60621951
>>60621706
Create a meme folder mane

>>60621840
In the trash

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>>60621963
>>60621959
>>60621933
where do i put this audacity file for me live reacting to the presidential election, I have no plans on doing anything with it but I want to keep it.

>>60622000
Upload it to YouTube and share it with us for keks

>>60622009
but its an hour and 34 minutes long

>>60621706
That goes in greenshots.
True, it's not greentext but it's close enough.

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I think I am going to leave it here for tonight /g/ Thank you for helping me organize my desktop! Maybe tomorrow night you guys can help me more and we can get it all cleaned up together!

>>60622015
even better

>>60622066
I def should make a greenshots folder. I mostly just put greentext stories in the folder that its about like a politics or a games folder.

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>>60622015
ok?

also you could just make a desktop backup folder in documents and dump everything there. No rush to sort, and sort it a bit at a time, staying sorted with new downloads. Pic related, my sorting

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>>60622076
I think I will include it in this 18 hour long collection of audio recordings I am going to release one day.

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>>60622089
show me your drawings anon :)

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>>60621386
You need to set your background to a picture of an office - desk and shelves both. Then just set your icons on the shelves. Boom. Organized

>>60622119
is that what you do? Pretty good idea

>>60621553
>he doesn't know he can just buy more storage

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>>60622156
>I do. I dont let them get disorganized though.

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>>60622168
cute horse anon :)

>>60622171
i wish i was u right now. also nice monitor size

Format and start over.

>>60622185
you are kind, thank you friend

>>60622191
I did on a windows machine. Now I have a brand new computer with a super clean desktop. But I still care about these things on this computer and I want to clean it all up

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>>60622198
no problem friend. i make art too but i can never draw, im too bad at it! so I just use tools in pixelmator to make cool stuff like this

>>60622177
How much capacity is all that in total?

and why don't you just get an external hdd enclosure?
they're a lot cheaper to buy as opposed to those single ones you got

https://www.amazon.com/Mediasonic-ProBox-HF2-SU3S2-SATA-Enclosure/dp/B003X26VV4/ref=lp_160354011_1_9?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1495957407&sr=1-9

the one in the link holds 4 HDDs

Make a bunch of folders, and start archiving it. Try not to let it come to this cluster fuck again.

>>60622239
I didnt even know this was a thing, thanks anon! I bought them slowly over time, over the course of many years.

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>>60622240
what do u think all the blue folder icons on there are. thats what I tried to do

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>>60622212
could have had a little more fun with this

>>60622347
>>60622212
Just as long as you're not saving it to your desktop

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>>60622347
Looks great anon :)

>>60622426
Nope. To my phone (those don't need organizing.

>>60622212
It takes practice, desu. I'm sure you could learn

>>60621386
>cmd+a
>cmd+del

Done

>>60621386
>create directory called 'Everything'
>put everything in it
Now your desktop will be clean and you'll have the option of sorting everything alphabetically, making it easier to find what you're looking for.

What an interesting thread

>Saving to desktop
ishygddt
Your OS Provides you with folders in your home folder, just use them when saving shit.

>>60621479
ctrl+a
x
create new folder
open new folder
ctrl+v
you're welcome

>>60623005
yeah. I have like 10 layers of these.

Every time I fill up i just it in another folder on the desktop called old desktop.

Works great imo and you simply travese the directories like a time machine

>>60621386
For starters create a folder for all the archieved websites (the Chrome logo'd ones).

>>60621386
You can't organize until you have a collection. You have a collection. So
>make a folder
>put all stuff in it.
>>>>>>>
>Make two folders in that folder
>put all stuff in either of those.
Repeat.

When done, go back and rename the folders.

actually with the terminal and a simple command you can move every images in a folder, all mp3 in an other one etc.
What you should start to do though is left click and sort it by type, helps a lot

put image files in a folder called images
put audio files in a folder called audio
put video files in a folder called video
etc

use hydrus for images and small video clips, and beets for the audio

>>60621386
create new folder on the desktop, throw all the crap
in that folder, done

Ctrl+a shift+del

>>60621386
Get all that shit off your desktop, only software shortcuts allowed. Put all your documents in their included "Documents" folder, pictures in their included "Pictures" folder, etc. making new sub-folders as necessary.

>>60625549
Don't do this shit OP, it will pile up. I have like 6000 unsorted pics etc in such a folder on my desktop now...

lel, whenever i need to organize my desktop i just make a new folder named "Desktop" and drag everything into it.

>>60621386
There is a magical file directory called MY DOCUMENTS where you can continue a file structure

Outside of that there is no need for shortcuts, you can use search to get to any application necessary. Pin what ever you use daily. Easy.

>>60630944
Im about 60% of the way done now. its coming along.

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>>60622168

>>60622239
>https://www.amazon.com/Mediasonic-ProBox-HF2-SU3S2-SATA-Enclosure/dp/B003X26VV4/ref=lp_160354011_1_9?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1495957407&sr=1-9
Dude, I've had that amazon page open for a week. My plan is to use two of the drives as backups of the other two but I am half worried about something causing all of the drives in the enclosure to fail which would defeat the purpose of the backup.

1. Select all
2. Trash
3. Wait till it fills again
4. Repeat

This is what I do.