Re: [LAU] file organization ?

Dave Phillips wrote: ... I believe I've seen one or two the last 10-15 years, but the design and thinking was more programmer/bed room inspired than done with the composer/ sound engineer mind set. One need a rock solid long term system, so I ended up doing this by file structure: Overall: ~/Studio Buffer Ideas-Sketches HW Projects SoundLib SW ---------------------- Examples: ~/Studio/Buffer/Inbox ~/Studio/Buffer/Outbox So IE. in the map: ~/Studio/Projects/Artist/Year/Project for a single song project, you might find this files and project folders: rawfiles/ mb32c-v3/ ardour5 rg1606/ Notes some_refrencemovie.mp4 some_refrencetrack.mp3 So a Mixbus32C version 3.6 project will in this case be created in a folder like this: ~/Studio/Projects/Artist/Year/Project/mb32c-v3/ And for an whole album, this structure above will come under folders like this: ~/Studio/Projects/Artist/Year/Project/trackname1 ~/Studio/Projects/Artist/Year/Project/trackname2 and so on No reason to have a track number, becauce thei'r no decided yes. Yep, it's a lot of folders, but very easy to maintain, archive and eventually open up again. The Soundlib is done like this: ~/Studio/SoundLib/ByVendor/NaturalDrum/NDK/NDK-jostein/GIG And under ~/Studio/SoundLib, I have links to the most user libs like this: ~/Studio/SoundLib/ByCategory/Drums/NDK-jostein/GIG I got all my patches for softsynhs under her (sometimes linked to obscure places because a softsynth need to find patches elsewhere. I started using this system 4 years ago and can now easily move and copy projects to for example the laptop or opposite. And the same goes for backups and archiving. I do not have to think anymore when using this system because the files are always "in the same place" Hope this helps or inspires a little bit. Jostein