How Files Are Organized

The desktop app organises a local Producer Dashboard workspace. Its flat inbox folders feed an organised per-song hierarchy:

bounces/
stems/
projects/
tracks/
  Song Name/
    bounces/
    stems/
    projects/

Files are classified and grouped by normalised song identity. High-confidence items move through the organiser; uncertain assignments remain visible in Files for correction.

Project files may be copied into the hierarchy and replaced at their original inbox path with a symlink. This preserves the path used by an open DAW project.

Safe cleanup

An inbox item is removed as an exact duplicate only after a same-category filename-and-size candidate has matching SHA-256 content. Filename or date equality alone is never deletion evidence. Folder projects use a deterministic recursive manifest digest.

If contents differ, or hashing fails, the item is preserved. Cleanup errors do not block unrelated import work.

Dropbox may be used for sharing and delivery, but it does not own this local hierarchy.