Hunting for files in explorer...
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How do you currently organize files across multiple projects when they're scattered across OneDrive, network drives, and local folders? Or do you just… not?
Curious how other people handle this. I'm working on 3-4 projects at once (engineering consultant) and my files are everywhere, some PDFs in OneDrive, Excel sheets on my desktop, CAD files on a network drive. I spend way too much time just finding things.
Do you have a system that actually works? Or is everyone else also just navigating deep folder trees 10 times a day and pretending it's fine?
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I don't think the folder structure is the hard part anymore. The hard part is remembering where something lives.
A project starts in one place, then a client shares files through another account, someone sends PDFs over email, and before long everything is spread across different locations.
I still keep folders organized, but I stopped relying on memory to find things. Most of my files are split between Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive, so I'm using All Cloud Hub to search across all of them from one place. That's been more useful than reorganizing folders for the hundredth time.
The worst feeling is knowing you have the file but spending 10 minutes figuring out where you put it.