On Aug 19, 2012, at 10:36 , Richard Meadows wrote: > My Fellow Travelers Along The Sneaker Net, > > Over time I have acquired over a dozen thumb drives and innumerable 4-64 Gig > SD Cards to use in carrying and recording data. This morning I needed to > transfer some photos of a reunion event from my MBP to a thumb drive to give > to my wife to upload to a face book page, that I do not have access to, for > the people involved in the reunion. (I was merely the SSU, shooting photos > and enjoying the food and beverages.) I pulled out a drive from my case put > it in my MBP, opened it, and bam!, there was a whole bunch of files. > > Pulled out a second and again there were files and programs and folders with > sub-folders. > > It’s all good data, but has nothing to do with just moving data along the > sneaker net. And not something I want passed around. > > So tell me fellow travelers how do you mark or label thumb drives so 2 months > or 10 months or years later you can see what’s generally on the drive. My > first idea was a printed listing of the drives in the pocket location in the > case with whats on the physical thumb drive. Like an electrical panel listing > of what breaker turns off the router or bathroom fan or AC. Open to other > ideas & help.
Could you use a color scheme, by making thin stripes on each drive? Not sure what you would used for the color that would be thin enough, but I'd bet that nail polish would do the trick. Then again, if you were going to write on the drives, you could always use names. Bill
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