# New Years Resolution: File Organization

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-years-resolution-file-organization/277925
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**Created:** [December 18, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-years-resolution-file-organization/277925 "2008-12-18T21:51:03Z")
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### Author: ![senocular](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/senocular/32/7217_2.png) [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/new-years-resolution-file-organization/277925/1 "2008-12-18T21:51:03Z")

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For a new years resolution, I intend to organize my files, i.e. every file I have ever created on a computer since the dawn of time that I still have saved somewhere.

AWESOME!

The big problem with this is redundancy. I have a lot of backups and drives which contain the same folders and files I have on my current laptop that I had on an old laptop… and then some. For one file, I could have a dozen copies of it depending on how many times it was backed up or moved somewhere else before syncing etc.

Anyone have a good suggestion for making this happen? Software, or approaches or anything? Offshoring perhaps?

:sen: