what (in your opinion) is the best way of organising files, so you don't forget were something is

Partitions:

/
/usr
/tmp
/var
/var/www
/home
/home/desktop

I keep my personal files in:

~/Multimedia/<media type>
~/Texte (text files)

working folders

~/Desktop/Planung (planned stuff)
~/Desktop/Arbeit (stuff I'm working on)
~/Desktop/Fertig (finished things)

each working folder has subfolders like text, coding, taxes, pictures, scripts, php, japanese, laTex and several others.

Everything that can't be re-installed goes in my /home folder.

Text
Music
Videos
Images
Web site
Shared

Then, each of those are further broken down.

~/backup -> contains backups of scripts and records of changes I've made to the system.

~/code -> contains projects I am working on, organised into separate programming languages

~/docs -> ebooks, guides, essays, devels, etc

~/media -> games, audio, video, images

~/organizer -> finances , bus_times, contacts, timetable, job

~/tmp -> iso, wav, src, torrent

Here's how my home usually looks like:

Home -> Downloads -> Torrents,Frostwire,MSN recieved files
Games
Music
Videos
Pictures
Programs
Wallpapers
Backup Files

There's probably a folder or two I forgot.

It depends where. At home I just dump it all in My documents and rely on remembering when I put it in there.

At work I keep things semi-organised (orders in a folder called 'orders' etc...), but most stuff is simply temporary files which go on the desktop, then into a 'Month' folder and after a few months into the bin.

I have a folder named "Misc" (which, oddly enough, I pronounce "misk," even though the 'c' should be silent in English).

In that folder I have a few important subfolders. Obviously sortable things go in the important subfolders. All else gets piled into misc.

Eventually misc gets messy and I make new subfolders, or make use of those I already have.

I shortcut current files and most-used subfolders on my desktop for easy use.

I am not terribly organized, but my system works reasonably well for me and I can always find things.

What I'm terrible about, is organizing my email. I probably have 600 old messages in my inbox, dating back at least 24 months. I only clean it when my server tells me I'm over quota--and even then, I sort by size and only clean out the big stuff.

I have some 8 local folders for old emails. I should probably have 50.

I have lots of subdirectories. I really, really like for things to be well-organized. Most files that I create or save get their own directory. A typical file is from 3 to 5 subdirectories deep in my /home dir. I'm a little OCD about it.

I'm both organised and disorganised.

At work, I have all my files organised into financial year, then into categories such as Orders or Invoicing. 99% of the time, when saving a file, I'll make sure it goes in the right place unless I'm in a bit of a hurry in which case I'll save it in "My Documents" and file it later which is usually no more than a week later.

At home however I'm a lot more disorganised. I have tried to mimic my work style of filing but it just doesn't work. Everything just gets dumped on to the desktop, or home folder and there it stays. If the files are on the desktop, I will tidy that up if it gets to messy, but guess where they end up - straight into the Home folder, with no further filing.

Somewhere appropiate in the home/My Documents folder. Desktop for working files.

I installed MediaWiki in my computer. And I use it for organise text data.

I kind of just throw files around from place to place. The only part of my computer that is kind of organized is my external harddrive.

thanks for your replys

i just dump it on the c drive in windoze, and on the desctop in linux. most inportent stuff is orgonised
considering wiping the hd and starting again.

Do you find that with more files in the C drive Windows takes longer to boot?

For Media i have a folder named :4,8gig new" i fill this folder up till its around 4.8 gigs / burn a dvd copy of the contents..then catagorize it.that way every single media file i own is backedup on dvd. i dont keep the dvd's @ home in case of fire or other.

For most of my stuff I have a 160GB external hard drive. I then have everything categorized into directories and then subdirectories and so on.

not any massave difarence in the boot time, windows boots in 3 munites and then takes 10 munites to become usable. it alwase has been slow. with is why i use ubuntu now

I don't use /home much but have it mounted on a separate parition.

I have two additional drives mounted as:

1. /media which has three main subfolders: /media/music, /media/video and /media/images

2. /down - where all downloads go

I have 3 folders called Download, Upload and Create. It occurred to me that all files get to your computer by one of those 3 methods (besides those in a base install) .

so for a camera image for instance... it gets uploaded to a file called image in upload. If i record my voice it gets uploaded to a file called sound create (because i created it ).

If i download a picture of some girl it goes into download / image .

now i just wish i could fix the mime types and file associatiosn so that it would automatically do all of this for me somehow

everything that isnt a program or system related is on my other hard drive.

I organize everything by the alphabet...