It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Expensive-Vanilla-16 on 2024-12-24 14:04:55.

This is strictly a movie question. Mainly because it's the bulk of my collection.

I need to start making a backup that's organized. Currently files are scattered among several drives and disks.

One large folder is insane, also I want to make optical backups.

Do you all sort by alphabetical folders ? Or by years / decades?

I'm kinda leaning towards by decades. I wish you could open a folder and see movies in order by year but also work in media server. It would also be nice to see everything in a decade but in separate 25 or 50 gb folders for optical backup.

Any input on this? It would have been much easier had I started this before acquiring 1000s of files but it needs to be done before there are 1000s more.