Just realized my one-file habit almost erased a whole series
I used to keep all my digital sketches in one messy file (yeah, I know, bad move). When it got corrupted last month, I lost weeks of character designs. Had to redo everything from memory, and it looked totally different. Now I split each piece into its own file, and my workflow is way smoother. Learn from my panic, backup your art properly.
Been there. Honestly, if you can't find a file in under a minute, that's the red flag. @jordanb80 gets it, it's just layers of chaos. Try a monthly folder dump and sort from there.