How To Manage Hundreds of Thousands of Documents?

ajmcello78 writes "We're a mid-sized aerospace company with over a hundred thousand documents stored out on our Samba servers that also need to be accessed from our satellite offices. We have a VPN set up for the remote sites and use the Samba net use command to map the remote shares. It's becoming quite a mess, sometimes quite slow, and there is really no naming or numbering convention in place for the files and directories. We end up with mixed casing, all uppercase, all lowercase, dashes and ampersands in the file names, and there are literally hundreds of directories to sort through before you can find the document you are looking for. Does anybody know of a good system or method to manage all these documents, and also make them available to our satellite offices?"

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[CorporateSuit]

No kidding, men are practically born with this instinct.

The most basic is dividing the images up according to hair color or the number of girls appearing in each photo. Then you usually divide them up between hardcore and softcore, type of performance, fetish, etc. For your favorites, you can keep a folder in the home directory, of course. I know this guy works for an aerospace company, but keeping track of 500,000+ files isn't rocket science! We've all been able to do that since the advent of the 200GB harddrive.