On 20 Apr 2002, at 15:16, Andrew Stiller wrote: > >How do you find anything if your data is scattered all around amongst > >your application folders? How do you back it all up? What if a > >project uses several different applications? > > > >David Stonestreet > > If it's a piece of music, I look in the Finale folder. . . .
That's clearly data. > . . . If it's a home-made > font, I look in the Fontographer folder. . . . That's clearly *not* data, but a system component (a font). > . . . Word-processed and other text docs > are distributed by subject matter: anything having to do with music or my > publishing business is in the Finale folder, . . . Ah, so you actually *are* applying the principle of grouping by subject, not entirely by document type. > . . . anything having to do w. > medicine is in the WriteNow folder because that's my wife's app. So, this is, de facto, a segregation by function, as her files are all in one place. > . . . There's a > Games folder containing all games, . . . Applications, not data. > . . . a Communications folder containing all > internet apps., . . . Applications, not data. > . . . and everything else goes in the Utilities folder, with a > few aliases otherwhere for particularly useful things such as StuffIt. Applications, not data. No one was suggesting putting your applications in a user folder, though, with a UNIX computer, it is possible to install apps so that they are available only to the user for whom they were installed, and, thus, they would go in the user's home folder. > The hard drive on my old computer is smaller than a CD, so I back up the > whole thing at once, whenever it changes significantly. Ongoing Finale > projects are backed up to an auxiliary hard drive, which is also the > primary storage spot for all my old Finale files. Every time I complete a > Finale project, I back up the auxiliary drive to a CD. I doubt your new iMac will have such a hard drive and it will thus make it much harder to back up everything at once. But even when my PC had only an 85MB hard drive, I still segregated all my data into a separate hierarchy. That PC was slow enough that a backup took a long time, and the less that had to be backed up, the better. But, as others have observed, each person uses the system that works best for them. However, it's a good idea to re-evaluate your own system because it may very well be built around system limitations that no longer apply. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
