Manually and imperfect but it works. Clients and Sides folders are the most used. Client folders usually have Site (for latest), Concept, Drafts, Logos, general

Manually and imperfect but it works. Clients and Sides folders are the most used. Client folders usually have Site (for latest), Concept, Drafts, Logos, general files, etc. Downloads gets cleaned of anything massive, occasionally sorted, but otherwise just left alone - mostly serves as a museum years later. Then Business (Quotes, Invoices, various business-related ventures, Employees, Banking, Financials, etc) and Personal (house, hobbies, cars, the children, etc). Day to day, there are usually 5-7 external drives directly connected - Lightroom catalogues by year, video source file storage, cache drives for video editing, etc. For source videos, I've settled on YYYY > Project or area, MMMM. That seems to work for my scale at this point. I have a friend who spends more time on perfecting his file structure than creating anything. I strive to avoid that!