#file structure

[commodorez]

Zoomer here, and I do indeed have questions about computers- how do filesystems work, and why should we care (I know we should, but I'm not exactly sure why)?

So why should we care?

You need to know where your own files are.

I've got a file on a flash drive that's been handed to me, or an archival data CD/DVD/Bluray, or maybe it's a big heavy USB external hard drive and I need to make a copy of it on my local machine.

Do I know how to navigate to that portable media device within a file browser?

Where will I put that data on my permanent media (e.i. my laptop's hard drive)?

How will I be able to reliably find it again?

We'll cover more of the Why and How, but this will take some time, and a few addendum posts because I'm actively hitting the character limit and I've rewritten this like 3 times.

Let's start with file structure

Files live on drives: big heavy spinning rust hard drives, solid state m.2 drives, USB flash drives, network drives, etc. Think of a drive like a filing cabinet in an office.

You open the drawer, it's full of folders. Maybe some folders have other folders inside of them. The folders have a little tab with a name on it showing what's supposed to be in them. You look inside the folders, there are files. Pieces of paper. Documents you wrote. Photographs. Copies of pages from a book. Maybe even the instruction booklet that came with your dishwasher.

We have all of that here, but virtualized! Here's a helpful tree structure that Windows provides to navigate through all of that. In the case of Windows, it's called Explorer. On OSX MacOS, the equivalent is called Finder.

I don't have to know where exactly everything is, but I have a good idea where thing *should* based on how I organize them. Even things that don't always expose the file structure to you have one (like my cellphone on the right). I regularly manually copy my files off of my cellphone by going to the Camera folder so I can sift through them on a much bigger screen and find the best ones to share. There are other reasons I prefer to do it that way, but we won't go into that here. Some people prefer to drag and drop, but that doesn't always work the same between operating systems. I prefer cut and paste.

Standby for Part 2!

[ritusokle]

Next.js Project File Structure (For Frontend): SVG Management Best Practices

https://blog.webtechbharat.com/2025/03/nextjs-project-file-structure-for.html

[ihasafandom]

Clip studio paint troubleshooting help

TL; DR: how do I merge materials folders, or how do I import materials from file (not thru asset store)? CSP 3.04

I have ended up with several different materials folders via weird computer shenanigans with different but overlapping content. I would like to merge them all into a single database. Last time I tried that, I simply copyied one set of folders into the other. Because of the weird file structure of the materials folder (the weird numbered thing) Windows did not go "oh this is a duplicate file, do you want to overwrite it?" so that resulted in multiple identical copies of many assets. Going through and deleting them by hand is difficult, but I did it eventually. Unfortunately my old computer then died and I got this new one which I had to use without downloading my old files for the first couple of weeks, which means that now I have the same problem again of needing to merge materials folders.

Is there a way to do this in a way that works? Some sites claim that CSP, perhaps an old version, is able to "import materials" from a file without going through the assets store, which would be ideal, but I cannot seem to find the way to do that. I have also seen mentions of "exporting" a material and some people offer downloads of assets through a browser instead of an asset store download, so that all implies it is possible.

What say you, internet?

[marianamendezartg310]

File Structure

I usually work with this type of file structure in all my classes unless a particular class involves more things like analog notes/projects.

This type of structure helps me keep track of the projects and the different phases it goes through making it easier to access it in case I need to make changes or just see the file again.

[jolikmc-thoughts]

Huh. I never notice how horrendously unoptimized the music files for Mega Man 2.5D are. Check this out.

This is everything in the "Content" folder except for the music. It's weighty, but considering how many files there are, it's actually pretty reasonable. And then… we get to the "Music" folder.

Yeeaaah, no. I don't believe I can abide by this.

I may need to de-encode, re-compress, then re-encode these things to XNB format just to save on some space. I can almost guarantee that there are some extremely unnecessary loops in the music files.

[imfromsixam]

Quick Guide: Stay Safe While Downloading Sims 4 CC & Mods

I just published a quick guide to help you download Sims 4 CC & mods safely. ⚠️ From trusted sources to spotting red flags. Keep your game clean and secure! 😊

Read it now

[abyssalzones]

realized I've never made a comprehensive image to illustrate wtf I'm talking about irt ford pines and laura palmer because I keep bringing it up but like Okay bear with me I am the complit enjoyer

the main reason why it's crazy is because alex has cited twin peaks As inspiration and you could reason that it's mostly surface level/vibes-based but I don't know.... Idk.....

[abby-howard]

Scarlet Hollow decision tree

People occasionally ask to see a decision tree for Scarlet Hollow, so a while back I put one together for episodes 1-4! It’s not comprehensive, as most scenes at this point have at least some variation due to any number of tracked variables, but it accounts for most of the really major deviations.

For those who don’t want spoilers but would like to hear about how we kinda structure the game: I like to talk about it as more of a braid than a tree, which is not a new concept or anything, but I feel like it helps other narrative designers understand how to limit the absolute vastness that you can get with branching structures. The narrative branches off at decision nodes, but instead of continuing down significantly different routes, it comes back together at key moments. So there’s a single narrative throughline to the game-- events unfold in the town and you witness them in some capacity, but your perspective on them, who you’re with, the options available to you, all these are impacted by other choices you’ve made along the way, including the character traits you chose at the start of the game.

It’s not necessarily easier than doing routes, since it means Tony and I have to keep track of a ridiculous number of little variations including one-off dialogue choices players have made AND steering players to the important narrative moments can be tricky, but I think it makes for an interesting player experience! People get so excited when, say, a line at the end of Episode 4 calls back to something they said when they first met Tabitha at the beginning of Episode 1.

ANYWAY, HUGE SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT, do not proceed if you don’t want to know about basically everything that’s currently in the game!

Things start to get a little hard to read from here on out....

Episode four had to be broken into four images and looks like spaghetti

I’ll make another one of these for Episode 5 after it comes out sometime next year! (I know that’s a bit of a wait but it’ll be worth it >:D)

[theygender]

Going to college as a nontraditional student with an office job is kinda funny bc now when a professor messes things up in a way that fucks me over instead of being like "omg this authority figure is so unfair 😭" I'm approaching it more with the vibe of like "if Karen from Accounting doesn't fix this mistake that's hindering my work after my third passive aggressive email I'm going to CC her boss"

[tempesttamers]

Communication is so important to Javi, like Storm PAR jokingly calls him a helicopter dad because he has this almost-constant need to know where every person is at every moment in time (and maybe because he dabbled with helicopters in the military). Like every truck and most other pieces of their equipment have their own trackers connected to an app on their phones. And then before they separate for the night they have a brief meeting to go over the game plan for the next day, and then he’ll send a follow up text before going to bed that summarizes that discussion.

Javi also made sure that every member of his crew had wireless ear pieces to ensure that they stayed in constant communication with one another. It didn’t matter if you were in the same vehicle as someone else, it was a rule that every person must have their own in case anyone was separated. This meant when they inevitably leave the confines of their vehicles to deploy the radar equipment (or to seek shelter) they could still communicate.

[randomisedmongoose]

The tiny little hiccups I've had switching to Linux have been almost charming compared to the stupidity of Windows. What do you mean my Bluetooth just... works now? No second long lag? All it took for me to map my stylus to my tablet was three lines in the terminal? Games run better? I've switched back to my Windows boot once since the install and that was to check a setting, at this rate I may as well uninstall it.

[wernerherzogs]

eddie diaz money laundering king you'll be famous forever

[tinyangrynerd]

Picked up the game again to finally dip my toes into the recent dlc. And i forget how much of a cluster fuck my 1st savefile is. Not that it's in a bad state, but it's just too much happening, too much everywhere. And i got nowhere to put new stuff. And it made me very stressed and angy.

Also pls..... the Bars....

[snowangeldotmp3]

lately i’ve been experimenting with pre-canon agathario if rio had been visiting agatha while she was still under the spell. which has led to a whole outline of an episode or two (or three…) but right now all i have that i can share is this. <3

[catsi]

spent an embarrassing amount of time making this molecular model for my master's seminar in blender 😭 it's really annoying to get a .cif file into blender and when you finally do it's so fucking unwieldy for any kind of crystalline structure... i wish mercury had blender's functionality 😭😭 ugh

[magentagalaxies]

buddy cole documentary trailer editing update!

printed more quotes/clip descriptions and taped them to color-coded notecards for my irl paper-edit timeline!! also reprinted all the quotes i already picked out bc i wanted to change the formatting. and i just realized from looking at this photo that i accidentally put one of the quotes on the wrong color card FUCK

(it's the one attributed to mark mckinney that just says [The Buddy Cole Song], I wrote it that way bc I didn't want to type out every lyric he improvised and I'd know just from the description, but I use that same brackets style to describe actions in the clips that won't be using their original audio so it got put in that pile. remind me to fix that tomorrow lmao)

also the huge green one is a one minute piece of conversation from a time when scott was considering retiring the buddy cole character (which he's done several times over the course of production, that's what mark's improv-song was about) and me trying to convince scott himself why the character is still relevant. i'm a little insecure about putting that long of a clip in a trailer bc most other clips are like 1-3 sentences but also this is gonna be an extended trailer-slash-reel so it'll be like 5-7 minutes in total, and that conversation will at times just play as audio with buddy performance clips over it (that's what the green notecard means) but idk let me know if you don't want to hear it lol

also if someone could teach me exactly how the youtube copyright system works that would be much appreciated