Searching For A Save Point (Continued...): Progress (Musical Chairs of Data)

This is the most challenging, stressful, risky but most important thing as an Artist with severe ADHD I've needed to solve.

I'm a very in the moment person, I've rarely looked back or forward, but since 2020 I've stepped out of my comfort zone and tasked myself to not only look back, but archive and map out the totality of my path in life...

This would have been much simpler if I was born with a different brain, one that was capable of short term retention, and organization from the start, I've never really had a period of time where I had a leg up, or comfort, so many things in life happen at once, so many factors play into what and where I had the bandwidth to prioritize or focus on, this isn't even all my hard drives, but one thing is clear, that no matter what was going on in life, I consistently just prioritized moving forward and creating more things in the moment just because being in the process where I can shut off the part of my brain and feel safe expressing on autopilot is what I live for.

I've lost so many hard drives over the years, and partially recovered data some of those times, due to this, I began backing up drives, but because I'm like a cat/fish, I open folders and do new work in scattered locations..

I've never taken the time to properly sort and organize everything, because when I did in the past, it broke ableton from being able to find the stems for songs, so this time I've i'm organizing everything else first, and the last step will be to open up thousands of project files, and saving them all in the same location with the save and collect feature....

This would be much simpler if I had a few more new SSD's to work with, but since I don't I'm going folder by folder deleting duplicates and sorting...

I fear that during this process I will end up losing data I can never recover... which is nerve racking because there is no reliable platform to safely archive and organize the highest quality versions of media... which in 2026 blows my mind...

This has been so much work, and it's so difficult to look at so much information on bright screens... I don't even know what the end game is because the internet is so broken when it comes to meaningful connection, reach and impact... which is infuriating... kinda like me writing this description that no one will see or read.