Sorry to hear about your problems. I hope you get them sorted. Sometimes of course it is better to start from white canvas again.

That extra information I think is where the benefit of a database would be over the current system. Some of it, like which file calls on which, can be generated or is simply known, like which product the file came with. I would not go into guessing which UV layout a geometry has but for example the xyz location of a hip actor may give a good hint which figure a conformer was made for. Adding to the defaults would to the user.