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by nickv

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Our current data structure is a mess. It basically consists of three shared drives, one for personal files, one for department level files (that never gets used), and one shared drive that consists of a dump of corporate data that is a mess. We would like to restructure and move all of our data into a consistent secure format that is intuitive to how the corporation is run. Does anyone know of any papers that were written on this process? It?s a massive project for us and requires the entire company?s attention. Your help is very appreciated.

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by jklein

I had the same issues as you regarding the storage of data. There are going to be too many opinions as to how to do it. You need to get top management to go along with a model you create and then stick to It.

Defenatly seek advise from users and the secretaries (they do all the real work anyway) on how they would like to access their data. It's got to be workable. Create and map drives to segments of the data tree or trees you want people to store the stuff. After I created a data structure I was suprised to find that the staff actually used it. It cut way down on "Lost" files and saved alot of time and help calls.

Good Luck!

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