Where do you put your downloads?

[Cinde]

Last week I was feeling a bit under the weather. Since I could not get outside I decided to start installing software on my new Dell Computer (graphics dedicated and not internet connected). I had trouble finding a lot of my downloaded files on the older computer that I want to put on the new one.

I kept many of the original zip files in two download folders: One for “Muvipix” and one for “everything else”. For “everything else” I made a database similar to Clayton’s. Now I am trying to figure out from those little file names what each one does, where I got it from… etc. I don’t know if I’ll ever get the “everything else” mess cleaned up.

Without Clayton’s Muvipix database I would have been at a total loss. (Thanks again Clayton!) I found that I have downloaded relatively few of the available products. As I unzipped tips, tutorials, music and motion backgrounds, I put them in their own individual folders for future retrieval. To my horror I discovered that I do not have any DVD templates. I know I downloaded several, but must have deleted the zipped files after extracting and installing. So those zips are no longer available on my computer. Then I found the file I named “corrupted, download again”.

So here I sit late at night wondering how everyone else handles their downloaded, zipped, etc, files? Especially the Muvipix ones. What are your tips and tricks?

[John 'twosheds' McDonald]

There may be better ways but this works for me.

I use ReGet Pro to manage my downloads. All downloads from whatever source go to a 'Downloads' directory on my D: drive. Immediately after downloading I unzip the files (if necessary) before renaming them into something that makes sense and finally move them to an appropriately named directory.

So, using muvipix material as an example, after download and unzipping, my muvipix motion backgrounds are held in the following location:

D:/Muvipix Stuff/Motion Backgrounds

then each background has a meaningful filename

Blue kaleidascope Motion; Light Orange Motion; etc.

Like I said, not rocket science but simpe and it works for me.

[RJ Johnston]

I've recently started entering information in the Title and Comment fields for each file that I download. To enter comments or other information, you right-click on the file in Windows Explorer, select Properties, then click on the Summary tab. There you will find fields to enter the Title, Subject, Author, Category, Keywords, and Comments. You have to right-click on one of the column headers in a Windows Explorer window to get access to the pop-up of the many other columns you can display besides the standard Name, Type, Size, Date Modified, etc. The summary fields can take a while to sort if you click on one of the corresponding column headers to sort the column.

I add what I can to the Photoshop Elements (3.0) Organizer.

I also use Reget (Deluxe version).

[mark hansen]

Without Clayton’s Muvipix database I would have been at a total loss.

Is this something that's widely available?
Mark

[Chuck Engels]

Right here
http://muvipix.com/cpg/albums/userpics/10016/Muvipix_Downloads1.xls

[Clayton]

Right here
http://muvipix.com/cpg/albums/userpics/ ... loads1.xls

Chuck this is the latest version: http://muvipix.com/cpg/albums/userpics/ ... nloads.xls I download all mine (I have everyone except 1 downloaded) to an external hard drive with a file location structure identical to the name in column a. I haven't started unzipping them just yet