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I try to organise my hard drive as if it could die anytime.

~/Downloads: everything downloaded will be stored here. Nothing here should be backed up. Nothing here will still be important in a month. If it should, then move it to ~/Documents

~/Documents: everything here is important such as scanned documents, invoices, pdf files, settings, configurations etc. Each file is backed up somewhere else continiously.

~/src: all code goes here. Default “git pull” location. No sub folders except “test”(ease on muscle memory). No backup needed since all has remote origin as well.

~/src/test: code, git, and bash experiences goes here.

In this way, if my hard drive fails on me, i think, i will not have huge problems.




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