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4/2/2018 Most open source projects start with an individual programmer scratching an itch, and FileOrganizer is no exception. But first, a story: it is interesting to ponder how much digital files, or assets of all types have started to be part of people's identities.  Not in the sense of a portfolio of essays or programs to be used for self promotion, but in a deeper sense.  Personally, I have gone through many moves during high school, college, and my early 20s, and with each move, I have lost something valuable.  The biggest loss was when I had stored all my worldly possessions in the summer of 1997 in a friend's basement, which then got flooded so most of my books and clothes got ruined. Nevertheless, I have been able to have redundant copies of some important files on floppy disks--it is hard to express how a few hundred kilobytes of high school essays and Pascal code mean to me.  Aside from some childhood photos which my parents kept (and which are now part of my dig