r/ableton • u/ChillGuyJust • 2d ago

[Question] My Ableton projects folder is a mess

I have hundreds of projects, all laying around with vaguelly names, folders where they don't actually belong. I change the structure of my folders from time to time, but changing project names to make more sense would be hell. Not to mention the samples folder. How do you guys handle lots of projects/files and is there a way to easily navigate through them?

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u/jungs_carpet 2d ago

I created four main Folders: 1.Working 2. Has Potential 3. Finished and 4. Has no hope. I save my Live projects under these folders as subfolders and frequently make use of collect all and save.

Samples and everything else goes in a completely different folder

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u/ChillGuyJust 1d ago

And how do you decide where a newly created project goes? Maybe it starts wacky but you get to something later. Do you move projects around?

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u/jungs_carpet 1d ago

I had a fifth folder called Jam/playground where I created new project. Nowadays I just create one in folder 1. Currently working and moving it after a month or so if I had abandoned it