Invest in high quality, large file cabinets that provide enough space for the material you need to store. Here are five suggestions from Fujifilm Computer Products and The National Home Office Association. Free up space by backing up Old or seldom used files can easily be transferred from the hard drive onto floppy disks or data cartridges. This will increase the computer's file retrieval speed and increase available storage. Create subdirectories on the hard drive Broad subdirectories will allow for all related files on the root directory to be saved together in a group.
Subdirectories are easy to create.
Simply consult your operating system manual. This can be particularly helpful when working with a large number of small files simultaneously, and will reduce the search time required to find specific files in a directory. Maintain a commitment to organization Organization is a learned discipline, but keeping an organized hard drive and floppy disks will eventually become second nature. Back-up files regularly, and continue to save files in a systematic way. If space on your hard drive is always an issue, there are programs that will shrink or compress your files, greatly increasing available storage space.