Maybe unlike me you're actually smart & organised from the get go so never found yourself with a task to take on. I on the other hand have 1000s and 1000s of photos, videos, documents, all sorts. On top of that I'd find myself not sure if something was backed up or not so I'd make a copy to a new drive, I'd maybe even buy a new drive & then copy things over. I know in some cases I've got things (files, folders, some times entire drive contents) backed up a number of times on a number of different drives. You may say this is good practice but I've no idea what's where, it's just scattered with no organisation.
I'd like to organise things so say family photos are together in some kind of order, music is together in some kind of order, random images together, nrop is sorted (way too many files there!) so that when I want to find say a copy of a contract I signed then I know that I need to navigate to XYZ & it's right there, rather than spending hours pulling out all kinds of different drives searching for the needle in a haystack.
So how big was the task you took on & also importantly - how did you do it & how long did it take? Was it a manual file-by-file job that took weeks/months/years or did automated programs help you in parts?
Just feeling a little overwhelmed & wanted to hear how others did it.