Re: mystery dac

John Larkin wrote...

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 17:34:04 GMT, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello John,


How many datasheets do you have archived? How do you organize them?

I have about 2000, around 800 mbytes, on my hard drive, plus a lot
od old cd's lying around in heaps. I'm planning to start an official
company archive, where we save a data*** of any part we use on any
design.

I have about 30k files, or 12GB. That's for semiconductors, I
have a smaller but sizable number of component dat*** files.

I figured we'd just create a folder on the server where everybody
dumps pdf datasheets of any part they use in a design. We'd make
sure the weekly dvd backups include this stuff.

If multiple folks are involved, you need a good system.

Mine are organized by manufacturer, then by type

C:\
DATA\
National\
Amps\
LM7301.pdf
etc
Vregs\
LM1117.pdf
etc
and like that.

Pretty good. I keep drive C: set aside for programs and similar
stuff, which means I can wipe it, reformat it or whatever without
affecting my data. My personal data and project files, etc., are
kept in drive D: (data, get it?). This makes it easy to backup,
by copying the entire drive, without wasting space on programs.

Drive E: is Engineering, for all my datasheets. My structure is,

E:\Companies-Semi\company-name\part-number_rev.pdf and etc.
I also have "app-note" and other folders for each company.

I haven't subdivided the datasheets under category, because many
parts defy categorization, and because that would have become a
difficult time-consuming step in saving the files. But it would
make it easier to find things. Right now I have to remember the
part number. I use Window search (browsing on E:\Companies-Semi)
typing in a piece of the partnumber, so I quickly get lists of
all the second source datasheets, different revs, etc.


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Thanks,
- Win
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