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MUO readers who know my articles or know me as a person can testify that two of my favorite things in the world are portable applications and automation. How great would it be if a portable application could automate the process of organizing your folders? Download Mover has been one of my best-kept secrets for a while now, and in this article it's time to shed some light on exactly what it's capable of doing.
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The words "creative" and "organized" are rarely used in the same sentence. Usually it is one or the other. However, often being creative can help you be organized and there are plenty of cases of that all throughout the Internet. One of those cases is right here on MakeUseOf in this very article. Perhaps you may think that coloring a folder is being organized, but combined with other organizational habits, it can change the way you manage your files.
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Libraries, found in Windows 7 and 8. are more than a list of suggested folders for saving documents, music, pictures, and video. Customizing your libraries isn’t just tweaking for the sake of tweaking – with libraries, you can streamline the way you organize your files and make yourself more productive. If you’ve ignored libraries so far and opted to organize your files the traditional way, be sure to give libraries a try.
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Collecting is part of human nature. Over the course of a life, we collect a lot of things. For a few decades, this has been including digital data. With every backup you make, you are not only duplicating files and folders, but you are also manifesting small errors - empty folders, duplicate files, outdated bookmarks, and broken shortcuts that don't lead anywhere anymore. Whenever you restore your data from a backup or copy them to a new computer, you carry over those imperfections.
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I still remember when Apple rolled out folders in iOS. It is, without question, my favorite addition to the interface since the mobile operating system came into existence. Personally, I like to install a lot of apps, but I always hated having pages and pages of apps to scroll through, so I found myself deleting them just to keep the number of pages down. Then, folders launched, and that was not a problem for me anymore.
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Have you ever had the urge to find new and innovative ways to do something that is normally quite simple? The other day I was going to save a Word Document, and forgot that I hadn't created the folder where I wanted to save it yet. "No problem," I thought to myself, "I'll just right click and create a new folder right inside the save-as dialog window. Easy!" But then, when did that feature start anyway? I honestly don't recall. I'm sure some of you out there may know.
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If you're not a neat freak like myself, you might - for example - have lots of files and folders that you just throw on Desktop and never get around to cleaning it up. Folder Tidy will sort all those files on your Desktop and sort them for you in designated subfolders. But there are a few rule options you might want to consider first.
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Say you want to get a list of all the files contained in a certain folder. How do you go about it? The most straightforward way might be to jot down those names in TextEdit, and if we're talking about 4 or 5 files it might even be the fastest way. Not so when you're looking at hundreds or thousands of files, or if this task is a recurring one. In that case, we use our computer to solve this for us.
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Privacy is hard to come by these days. Whether you are sharing a computer or are generally suspicious of peers who occasionally have access to your computer, you may have the desire to store sensitive information or private files in a safe place. This article provides a summary of three quick and easy ways to do this in Windows 7.
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Most of what we do in any computer is access, manage, and use files and folders. Having a handful of good tips for using files and folders on your Mac can help you get things done faster and more efficiently. The following are a list of the favorite ways I work within the Finder.
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Checking to see the structure and amount of contents on your hard drive is a pretty important capability. In fact, I just recently featured a program that does such a task for Windows. But the same program cannot be used on Linux. However, we've been gifted with a Linux-native program that offers a simplified set of features that is, in my opinion, easier to use.
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If you have a lot of files on your hard drive, you will probably at one point have wondered what's in those folders you created a very long time ago. You might have some problems answering that question yourself, especially if the folder is full of millions of sub-folders and files. For cases like these, you need the right tool for the job. Thankfully, such a tool exists, and it packs some amazing features that will even make it fun to look through all those folders.
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When you've had your Android for a while, the amount of pictures on the phone build up, as well as album cover art, pictures stored by applications, and wallpaper. Pretty soon you realise your phone's Gallery is full of these pictures that slow down the loading time. So it's time to get rid of them. Luckily, there's a couple of really easy ways to do it.
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After receiving a portable hard drive as a gift this Christmas, I became very excited to make full use of that hard drive as a way to back up and protect all of the important family photos, videos and research documents that I wouldn’t want to lose if my laptop hard drive ever failed on [...]
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How many times have you moved document files from the Desktop to a specific document folder, or imported music files from a music folder to the iTunes library, or converted downloaded movies to a format playable by your multimedia players? Have you ever thought that today’s extremely smart computer should be able to automate these [...]
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