Best way to organize and tag files?
Hello,
I tried searching but couldn’t really find anything specific.
I have a hard drive with about 15 years of data on it, from multiple phones, multiple laptops, random files, etc. There is absolutely zero organization and it’s an absolute mess. There are many duplicates. A lot of the file names are similar because of the way the iPhone names files. So I have about 10 different phone library dumps - they all use the same file name formatting. It’s just literally a mess.
I am looking for the best way I can do the following:
-Deduplicate
-rename all files to when they were created followed by their actual file name, or if anybody has a better format?
-somehow tag files into a database so I can search some term and the file name/location will appear? I would manually have to tag them
-organize into folders by file type and then by year/day etc
I have a synology 923+ I have not set it up yet. I want to be able to access all of these files with ease after they are organized.
The main file types are going to be photos, video, pdf, txt files, and then a bunch of a random web files as there are a few website projects scattered throughout.
Can somebody point me into the right direction where I can achieve these without doing majority of it manually? I am afraid it must be done manually in order to be done correctly without losing anything. Am I wrong?
Thank you so much!