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Avoid complex, deeply-hierarchical folder structures, which require extra browsing for file storage and retrieval. Try to keep the folder levels to no more than three deep. Folder structures can be simplified by including all the essential information concisely in the file name. |
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With the above stated, there are situations where the technical issues can arise if there are too many files within a single directory. Hundreds of files in a directory is usually fine, multiple thousands of files in a directory could become problematic. |
The following best practices are recommended for creating an effective project folder structure:
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Granularity Examples
Project: Sea Monkey Forage Studydata-mgmt-arcc24
Parent folder: Prey DataResearchData_Location1_05012024
Child folder: 2017images
Users can create subfolders within as needed
Child folder: 2018samples
Users can create subfolders within as needed
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Poor folder names:
My DataMy Folder
Data From Ben
Better folder names:
Processed herring acoustic summaries, 2012-2016
Raw herring acoustic data, 2012GPS-locations-sagebrush-study-2021
Raw-songbird-acoustic-data2012-2016
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