I was talking by phone with another forum member who's in the same line of work about the way we organise our workflow, specifically the organisation of imported/digitised files/material.

It turns out we both do roughly the same thing, namely create a folder on a non-OS drive with the name of the client and endeavour to store all relevant files (other than renders which go to a third dedicated hard drive) in this folder.  The idea is that when the commission is completed and we've archived the files we want to keep, we can delete the folder or even re-format the entire disk as appopriate.

This seems to be at variance with the way Liquid encourages us to work which appears to be that we put all imported/digitised material into a media folder/disk and only keep the renders separate.

Assuming I've understood correctly I can see advantages in doing this, except when it comes to deleting material ready for the next job/season.

May I ask what other people, especially wedding people (who probably have similar business patterns as me/us), do in this respect and what their views are?

I always put the media for each project in a separate folder. Just makes cleanup and backup easier. I wish that Liquid would automatically do this for each project. I will push for that in NexGen which I suspect will have much simpler media management.

This gets back to a problem some of us had a while ago. That is not to have to many folders in media management & to have the folder your using moved to the top of the list. The problem I was having was folders disappearing from the list.

Yes, that can be a problem. But are you actually working on more than fifteen or twenty projects at once?? Once you finish a project you can delete it from the list.

Although it probably sounds excessive Lew, I don't think it's that unusual for people doing weddings - especially if, like me, you try and do a new demo disk each year which means keeping material available for most of the season.  When we were doing corporate some years ago it was mainly one to three programmes on the go at a time.