Managing a very large sample collection

Hi, I have around 10,000 wav samples on my hard drive, all from original sources.
The trick is to always name files descriptively, thus allowing you to use the Windows Explorer search function to easily find samples.
For example a great drum break might be labeled 'Live Funk Break-Top Hits vol.1 track2.WAV', so you know what it sounds like and where it's from - this also means you can text search your library by terms such as 'break', 'hits' or 'funk'.
Hey, and don't forget to back your library up!
Regards 'C'

WOW, but to detect duplicated file there is
program on the net I think, else if you
know programming just make something
to scan and found them :)

Hi,

90% are commercial libraries I have purchased. I can't resist buying sounds. I would never dream of uploading a commercial sound. I have rolled my own sounds too, some of those I will upload shortly.

500,000 or so is a really easy number to arrive at. The other day, I downloaded some sounds from another sample site and ended up picking up 35,000 new sounds. So it is really easy to get a lot of sounds fast. The problem is I probably have thousands of duplicated. I know I must have a least 1000 808 kick drums to weed out. I've been collecting sounds online since 1994....