Library part management

 Hi everyone....brand new to 16.6 Pro...no CIS. I've managed to get far enough on my own with it to send some test gerbers (a few issues came up that I'll post later on) to the pcb house and they said everything looked fine. But now I'm backing up to figure out how to organize everything with converting over the 1000's of the library footprints that were made over the years by other designers and making new ones. I "translated" some of the old footprints/symbols from old Orcad 9.2 over to the new package...and made some new ones both with 16.6 and EDA builder. 

When I look at what comes with the package, Orcad has the pad's mixed in with the symbol "dra" files...no matter what they are.

Right now we have all the Molex connectors under their own library/folder.....Tyco....SMD devices...ect. I like to keep it the same way but now the "pads" are separate from the symbol/footprint unlike in 9.2.

Whats everyone doing? Could I have a folder with all the pads in it (then I can easily reuse them for any future part) and nothing else....then I can setup "dra" symbol folders for the components like I have now? (making sure the paths are pointing to those folders)

Or just do what Orcad has done....just have a symbol folder with everything in it and come up with a file naming system to tell me what each symbol is?

Just looking for ideas on the best way to do this...

TIA!
DA