Comment by jen729w

> My current thinking is to keep this photo-library as-is, but put all of my ‘normal’ files into a JD structure.

Yes. This sort of data set already sorts itself pretty well: by date. There’s no need to mess with that.

See also: your music library, if you don’t have iTunes do it for you.

> It didn’t help that the template for the sites was developed from a project lifecycle perspective and had about 70 folders covering every stage from initiating a bid to project shutdown.

Aah, when the PMO tries to be helpful. I see this all the time - a ‘baseline’ set of folders that you’re meant to understand know what to do with but literally nobody does so they just get ignored.

Worse, I frequently see them with numbers at the beginning. Worse even, those numbers just make no sense at all. I’ve recently experienced a repeating pattern which involves folders 001-015 being something that I can’t remember, and then `016 TO BE DELETED` (because this is in a document management system where you can’t actually delete a file).