Organizing Your Hard Disk - Motorola MCS 2000 User Manual

Organizing Your
Hard Disk
SPREADSHEET
ETC.
SPECTRA
1994
FIRE SECURITY
It is important to spend some time early on deciding which types or
groups of files should be located together in the same file directory. File
directories can be created using the DOS MD or MKDIR command.
You may want to organize your directories first by customer area, then
by customer name and finally by radio model type, or perhaps in the
reverse order. Consider the different ways in which you operate your
business. Do you separate radio files by customer location, by sales
revenue, by fiscal year, or perhaps by date of purchase? When deciding
how to organize your files and directories, we suggest the following:
Put as few directories as possible near the top (or root) of your
directory tree. The next level of directories would be the customer
names within each of those areas.
Keep the RSS diskette contents in one directory and your archive
files in a different directory.
Storing archive files for different radio models in the same
directory can cause a lot of confusion. Use a separate directory
name for each radio model and then store the archive files for that
specific model within the appropriate model directory.
Below is a sample directory tree for storing radio archive files on the
hard disk. Though your hard disk directory tree may vary depending
on your way of doing business, this setup may be a good starting
point. The installation program will automatically create the MRSS
and MCS directories for you if they do not already exist.
ROOT
WP
MRSS
MCS
STX
ARCHIVE
COURIER
TOWING
DATABASE
MTSX
SABER SI
EXECUTABLE PROGRAM FILES
1995
FIRE SECURITY
GRAPHICS
ETC.
TOWING COURIER
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