How did he organize the files?
Abdul used Claude Cowork, an AI tool that can carry out tasks on files it is given access to. He gave it access to an old drive and asked it to divide his files into Work, Creative and Personal, then organize them by year and file type. This is his account of one task, not a guarantee that every drive can be sorted as quickly.
“All the files ended up in Work, Creative or Personal.” — Abdul Osama
The request and the result
Abdul says his prompt was two lines long, but he does not share its exact wording. The instructions he describes were to:
- Give the tool access to the files he wanted organized.
- Specify the three main categories.
- Sort within them by year and file type.
- Review anything left uncategorized. He says there was not much of it.
He had repeatedly carried files over unchanged when switching devices, moving them between drives, folders and cloud storage. After the cleanup, he says he could find what he needed in seconds.
In numbers
- More than One Terabyte: the amount of data he says was organized.
- Under half an hour: the time he reports for the task.
- Three categories: Work, Creative and Personal.
- Two lines: the length he gives for his prompt; he does not provide its text.
Background
Before letting an AI tool work on important files, keeping a backup and checking its permissions and output are sensible general precautions. Abdul does not describe those steps in the video.
If an old drive or desktop has become hard to navigate, start by deciding which categories would be useful to you. Check the uncategorized files when the task is done.
