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→Duncan's planned system: cleaning up my old mess
= Duncan's planned system =
* Directory depth is limited to media plus 7 (limit of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9660 ISO 9660]). For example: ''media/2/3/4/5/6/7/file.ext''* File and directory names are limited to a-z Lowercase Lower-case alphabetical characters (see below) A-Z Uppercase Upper-case alphabetical characters (see below)
0-9 Numerals
- Hyphens/ dashes (must not start a files name)
_ Underscores
(And all names have need a combination of lower and uppercase upper-case letters so they donWindows doesn't change the case) * File path lengths need to be limited to 256 characters (limit of [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa365247.aspx Windows Path Size]) Requires . Currently this requires manual checking.
Indicating unsure or incomplete dates
--1810-_-10--
Directory naming rules:
* Top directory is <upper case letter><lower case start of range>-<lower case end of range>, ie ''Aa-z'' for all the ''A''s or ''Sl-z'' for surnames starting with ''Sl'' through to ''Sz''. This may look like overkill but it is primarily to avoid directories with letters in only one case as these can change case without warning on older Windows systems, breaking Posix file paths.
* Start words in directory names with capitals so Windows file systems don't change the case.
* Once a family starts (shared address, children or legal union) any common files go into a family directory (alphabetically sorted) ie: ''Jensen__Williams''
<upper case letter><lower case start of range>-<lower case end of range>/
or
or
For example
Ga-z/ - George__Spencer/ (because 'G' comes before 'S') - - Evt/ - - - Marriage/ - - - - S--marriage--george__spencer--charles__diana--england_somewhere--1981--wedding_certificate--0065.png - George/ - - Ind/ - - - George__Charles--1948-11-14/ - - - - Evn/ - - - - - Stag_party/ - - - - - - Charles_and_the_surprise_guest.jpg Ja-z/ - Jetson/ - - Ind/ - - - Jetson__George--1995-01-21/ - - - - Sou/ - - - - - S--award--jetson--georgejetson__george--luna_city--2014--his_pilots_licensepilots_license--0562.jpg GaSa-z -lSpencer/George__Spencer - - Ind/Evt - - - Spencer__Diana--1961-07-01/Marriage - - - - Evn/S - - - --marriageHens_night/ --george__spencer--charles__diana--england_somewhereDiana_getting_drunk.jpg --1981--wedding_certificate--0065Everyone_enjoying_the_fun.pngjpg
= Jerome's system =