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Re:Designing better file organization around tags, not hiera... by p1necone on Sunday November 07, 2021 @10:31PM (#29145919)
My favourite file organization hack is to have a "scratch" folder containing everything that I can lose with no problem. Stuff only comes out of the scratch folder if I know I can't redownload it again and I might need it.

This way I can just wipe the whole scratch folder whenever I want, and there are much less files I actually need to organize.

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Re:Designing better file organization around tags, not hiera... by rsyring on Sunday November 07, 2021 @10:46PM (#29145961)
Similar but mine is ~/tmp and I have a cron job that deletes any files/folders over 30 days old.
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Re:Designing better file organization around tags, not hiera... by spicybright on Monday November 08, 2021 @02:32AM (#29146822)
Oh man, that's smart. Would you mind sharing that script?
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Re:Designing better file organization around tags, not hiera... by ddoeth on Monday November 08, 2021 @04:48AM (#29147643)
You could use something like this:

   find /tmp -type f -mtime +30 -delete
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Re:Designing better file organization around tags, not hiera... by marcellus23 on Monday November 08, 2021 @03:36AM (#29147227)
This is what I use my desktop as.
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