Aperture advice needed albums vs. folders - Hey leonieDF L@@K here pls!

Looking for some general opinions and/or suggestions on how to best organize Aperture. I want to really streamline my work. Aspiring professional.
Right now I'm trying to decided on what the benifit (if any) to using folders vs. albums is.
I'll use PROJECTS as a MAIN header - for example, Family, Clients, Travel, Shows etc...
Then within those I want to do several subs.... for example:
FAMILY - project name
- any given year 1995 --- album or folder?
--- sub of that would be, Joe surprise party or Christmas Eve.
Since folders are containers that dont hold images, is it too risky to put sub albums or even projects within a folder? For fear of accidentally deleting a folder & with it all the data?
SUMMARY - Any good tips on how to organize with Projects, Albums and Folders would be appreciated.
PS: would love to hear from leonieDF if you see this post.

The naming of the parts
Assembling the parts named
It is a very useful exercise to develop your own Library structure . The second link above details many of my thoughts while I was first putting together Aperture 3 Libraries.
As Léonie has already indicated, your first mapping is commonly proposed, and inverted. Until you are completely adept with Aperture, stick to "one Project = one out-in-the-world shoot". This is how Aperture was designed to work (afaict) -- starting off that way will give you the broadest geography you can cover without crashing into an unanticipated fold in the landscape.
I found it very helpful to understand and utilize the fact that I use the Library for two distinct tasks: storage, and retrieval. (I use the program for Image development, but that is in effect independent of the Library organization.) My solution is to separate these structures, with Projects (organized with Folders) as a filing system for all my Images organized by "shoot", and Albums (organized with Folders) as a filing system for all of my output projects (small "p" projects".
This works well for me, partly because I am a fine art photographer, and my projects (again, small "p") almost always span several shoots. For instance I am preparing an entry for a show of small works on paper. I have created a Folder for this, in which I put an Album holding the 100 or so Images I'm considering entering. These 100 come from at least 30 separate shoots. I will whittle this down to four, mark them as the ones I entered, and leave the Folder in which I can always see which Images I considered, and which ones I selected.
What works for me is unlikely to work for you -- but it should give you some surveyor's marks as you plot and dig your own Library foundation.
Read the linked messages, play around a bit, and post more. There are very few needs that Aperture can't meet.

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