Best Way to Organize Your Hard Drive?
I've been using Macs for years, but I have a very basic question. What's the best way to organize your hard drive? I first got into Macs at my wife's suggestion and so followed her system which is essentially this: anytime you want to make a new folder to store documents, you just add a single space in front of the name. That way, your documents are always at the top of the Hard Drive's list. When you click on Macintosh HD, you always see your document folders first. It's very convenient most of the time.
But I find my Hard Drive is increasingly disorganized. I seem to have two Document folders, for example--one under Macintosh HD (which has a lot of stuff put there by various applications, and one under my Home file (which has nothing in it except a Palm folder). I have two Music files and two Pictures files (two of these I made myself with the space first, where I've been storing the odd photo i that I download, and random articles and lists regarding my hobby of guitar and singing.
Occasionally, I have to search for things in several places, and sometimes the computer doesn't seem to know where to find things. I'm tempted to put all my documents folders into the Documents folder under Macintosh HD but frankly, it's pretty messy. EG, Finale software stores all my musical notation files there--not in a subfolder, but just under Documents, and if I put them in a subfolder it won't open them.
So that's why I'm asking this very basic question. I'm going to try and insert screenshots here of my Macintosh HD and Home folders, and I'll be grateful for any tips you can give on an optimal storage method. Or if you think I should just leave well enough alone, I'll be quite glad to hear that too. Here they are (I think): HomeFolderScreenshot.jpg and MacintoshHDscreenshot.jpg.
PowerBook G4 Pismo 550 Mhz, 100 GB HDD/7200, 1 GB RAM, OS 10.4.11, Mac OS X (10.4.11), PowerBook G4 12" Superdrive w OS 10.4.10