
They reference the BIFMA standard for the medium-duty cabinets, and provide additional performance requirements for the heavy-duty cabinets. The GSA standards define two grades of filing cabinets, medium- and heavy-duty. The General Services Administration (GSA) also maintains standards for vertical and lateral steel filing cabinets, A-A-3186 and A-A-3187 respectively.

The standards provide requirements for cabinet stability, durability, and strength, among others. BIFMA used to maintain a separate Standard X5.2 for lateral filing cabinets, but that standard has been withdrawn. Within the United States, the primary standard for vertical filing cabinets is the Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturer's Association (BIFMA) Standard X5.3. merging all songs from an artist that are currently spread throughout a larger hierarchy into a single folder.multiple source folders and folder hierarchies.backing up your music files to MP3 CDs sorted by artist and then by album.backing up your photo collection to 4GB DVDs, beginning with the oldest photos (shooting date) and working your way to the most recent ones.sort files into batch folders alphabetically, by size, by creation date, by modification date, by digital photo shooting date, etc.preserve or 'flatten' the original folder hierarchy.splitting criteria include: number of files per batch folder, total size of batch folder in Kb, Mb, Gb.split music collections by Year/ Artist.split music collection by Artist / Album / Song.split photo collection by Year/ Month/ Day.

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