How do you organize your digital art files on your computer?

Oblivion2500

How do you organize your 3D files (maya, blender, 3ds max, etc)? What about other project types like photography, graphic design, or game projects? Unreal/Unity projects? I have a bunch of these types of projects and I'm pretty organized but I would like to make my life easier and find my files faster. So I thought I get an insight or tips from you guys if any of you have an efficient system of organizing your design files.

Eric Chadwick

https://polycount.com/discussion/207977/how-do-you-organize-files-and-resources

Oblivion2500

Thanks for the tip. I just finished reorganizing my files. I sort of got inspiration from ArtStation search function when you're searching for the type of mediums. I basically have an HDD filled with my digital files. So I structure it something like this:

My Files / Data > Art > (Different Types of Art) > Etc.

This helps me find my work base on type and category quickly. My UE4 projects are just located in the Art folder if it's an art project instead of a game project. That way UE4 won't freak out about too long string for the file location. I also did a lot of renaming and reorganizing each project I ever did and made a system. Each project has a folder of folders. Each folder is base on content such as Audio, Textures, OBJ, FBX, Maya, Blender Files, Video, Screenshots, Documents, References, etc. You get the picture. 

SnowInChina

usually i have folders for textures, wip, meshes etc and one FINAL folder where i put my final model.

and then there´s a final_2 and final_3 for the really final models and a really_final and really_final_2 for the final final