[This recent discussion](https://www.reddit.com/r/datacurator/comments/iek9n7/managing_digital_personal_information/) echoes a lot of what you bring up. > So for example I have japanese games in my archives, and Im thinking they should go in my games directory in a new folder simply called "Japanese" instead of buried in my archives. While that is a "do it properly" approach, it *still* doesn't address how useful it is to have things you're not actively using out of the way. I maintain that the right answer is to have a *proper* archive, which does classify items in whatever way makes the most sense to you, and then put just the subset of ones you actively use into the `Games` directory on your main drive. > I'm thinking with the right categories, it might be possible to solve the age-old problem "This file belongs in two places"... at least sometimes. While that can be true in the personal sense, you have to go at it with the understanding that it is *only* going to be true *for you*. You can't, for example, assume that anyone else is going to agree with `Japanese` as a major attribute for organizing a game library. But if that is what makes sense to you as a rule and you'll stick to it 100%, that's the way to go. 9e9b15207cac8f7f7ec1309dfb725be00db4a2ba60e496a889412229da427fcf