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Software Server Revisited

After you've added many files to your software server (see the previous Software Server tip), it can take a while for people to find their desired software package since there are so many available. The solution is to separate your software into categories, but if you have software category folders and standard software folders intermixed, people still will have problems finding their desired software. So, precede software category folders with an exclamation point, apostrophe, or some other character that would force a sort to place category folders before standard software folders in a folder listing.

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