Organizing my files/folders & the home folder?

[discofuel]

I want to organize my files/folders in a specific way, rather than use the standard folders in the 'home folder', and wondering how to set this up.

What's the best way to create my own 'master' folder and choose the exact folder structure?

For example I want to have my Music, Video and Pictures folders all inside a folder called Media. And I don't want things like library, documents, public and sites in my master folder.

Thanks

 

[miles01110]

What's the best way to create my own 'master' folder and choose the exact folder structure?

Create it on the Desktop and don't worry about ~/Users/yourUserName .

For example I want to have my Music, Video and Pictures folders all inside a folder called Media. And I don't want things like library, documents, public and sites in my master folder.

Changing this stuff, especially Library, is going to create a mess. Just don't do it.

 

[discofuel]

Ok thanks - I was thinking I'd have to use the music folder but I guess I can put my music anywhere.

What about sharing music with bootcamp? Can you share any folder with read and write access?

 

[miles01110]

I think you have to do it off an external drive or a separate partition. The Windows/OS X common format for this type of thing is FAT or NTFS; you'd have to put your library on that partition and tell iTunes where to look.

Try digging through some of these threads to see if there's a better answer in there.

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=011016...te:forums.macrumors.com&hl=en&as_qdr=m6&meta=

 

[ntrigue]

I have Snow Leopard at the ready. I'm going to wipe a 500GB drive and am considering partitioning. Does it make any sense to put 366GB of iTunes music on one partition and System/Applications on another?

Will I have annoyances when adding files to iTunes?

 

[coops]

I created a folder '1_My Data' directly under my 'Macintosh HD' device. The preceeding '1' keeps it at the top above Applications, Users and all the rest.

Then all my data goes under that folder in whichever folder.... folders for Music, Video, Library, Work etc etc ( I've also put a number in front of those folders to keep them arranged as i like).

iTunes will either manage your music itself, if you like that kind of thing, or you can try and tell it to just use your files as is. I use Songbird, no problem.


Coops