During the past 13 years I have transfered over 12,000 disks from the TI-99/4A
to the PC using the PC99 RSECTOR/WSECTOR utilities or TI99-PC. 

In most cases, to expedite the transfer I used numeric or alpha-numeric Windows
filenames.  As a result, the filename will frequently give no hint at the 
contents of the disk.  

While I have moved many of the disks to their relevant directories/folders, 
not all are organized as such.  You will find a great many of the files 
mis-catagorized or in a generic folders.  In some cases, this was due to the
disk containing a mixture of files that made categorizing difficult. 
 
Some of the disks may contain corrupt sectors, filenames, etc..  Sadly, the 
inability to throughly test each disk is a consequence of one person attempting 
to preserve this many disks.  

Did I mention the duplicate files?  Be prepared for a bunch, actually beyond a 
bunch.  I deleted disks that were binary duplicates, but failed in finding the 
motivation necessary to uncover duplicate files in the remaining 12,000+ individual
disks.  In my younger days I might have written a computer program to do just that,
but not so much now.

Each directory contains a file titled !XXXXX-FILES.TXT, which is a list of the
dsk files in the directory and sub-directories with a list of the files on each of
the .dsk files and cross referenced by their TI disknames.

Even with the listing you are likely to find yourself overwhelmed.  I certainly 
was and still am.  

If you find yourself starting to near a level of frustration during your attempts
to sort through this mostly unorganized heap, close your eyes, take a deep 
breath and remember that, as Ralph Waldo Emerson said; “Life is a journey, not a 
destination.” 

Ernie
airernie@gmail.com