Apologies if this has come up before but I am a new member here and could not find anything similar in the archive.
I am [re]starting a family study, and want to store all my resource material electronically in folders on my laptop (copies to cloud and physical drives). In search of a simple system I intend to have for each surname folder a fixed yet transparent code linked to reunion such as
SMITH John Thomas 1913-2011 PID233
and the filename for all docs included to start with a further standardised code such as:
SMITH Mary Frances (POTTER) 1920-2011 PID234 bcert S00245
where the 'S00245' links to the Reunion unique source reference for Mary's birth certificate. This makes the document available to Spotlight for search purposes.
This seems clear and manageable. However, the problem comes when I want to store a copy of Mary (above)'s birth certificate. I want to avoid her having two folders and I don't want to use aliases (I have had bad experiences updating system software that have destroyed all my alias structure).
My decision so far has been to have a secondary folder named POTTER Mary Frances 1920-2011 PID234 (m EAYRS) and in it to have an empty folder named simply "See entry under SMITH Mary Frances (POTTER) 1920-2011 PID234". I think this will work, but would be interested to hear how others handle this situation.
I am [re]starting a family study, and want to store all my resource material electronically in folders on my laptop (copies to cloud and physical drives). In search of a simple system I intend to have for each surname folder a fixed yet transparent code linked to reunion such as
SMITH John Thomas 1913-2011 PID233
and the filename for all docs included to start with a further standardised code such as:
SMITH Mary Frances (POTTER) 1920-2011 PID234 bcert S00245
where the 'S00245' links to the Reunion unique source reference for Mary's birth certificate. This makes the document available to Spotlight for search purposes.
This seems clear and manageable. However, the problem comes when I want to store a copy of Mary (above)'s birth certificate. I want to avoid her having two folders and I don't want to use aliases (I have had bad experiences updating system software that have destroyed all my alias structure).
My decision so far has been to have a secondary folder named POTTER Mary Frances 1920-2011 PID234 (m EAYRS) and in it to have an empty folder named simply "See entry under SMITH Mary Frances (POTTER) 1920-2011 PID234". I think this will work, but would be interested to hear how others handle this situation.
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