Ok, so I've been at this Poser/3d thing for about 5-6mon and I've already got so much stuff in my libraries, especially the pose libraries, that I can't find a thing and v3 stuff is mixed up with v2 Stuff etc. I'm sure most of you have the same or similiar problems,as I've herd folks complain about the Poser file system frequently. I'm wondering how you all deal with this :-)

Well...What I personally do is install what I need for the project I'm working on and when I'm finished I uninstall it.

WOW!! Sounds like a real pain. Do you unzip & install every prop etc.?

My advice - buy PBooost. After months of thinking and reading about it, I bought it. It's a great system for organizing your folders, and it works like a charm. I really can't recommend it highly enough.

I pretty much do the same thing as galactron22. I'll keep frequently used items but the rest go away once I'm finished. I keep files archived and cataloged on CD-Rs with contact sheets of all the thumbs so it doesn't take me long to find something I need.

PBoost is the way to go. You can create banks to hold various stuff. And you can even import and export stuff to different hard drives, rewritable CD's, etc. And best of all, it's only $20, and available here in the Renderosity Marketplace.

My personal favorite if it's just for re-organizing the contents of the Libraries, is P3dO by Yarp. I believe it's still a free Download at Seno Software, but he was considering a commercial version of it. He usually has a link to it in Frestuff here as well.

Attached Link: http://hem.spray.se/anders.peterson/ocdb.html

Here's what I do. After a fresh install of Poser, I zip the runtime folder. All of my character, poses, textures or whatever are put in dummy runtime folders when they are created and zipped. When I need a model I unzip the dummy runtime and dump it into the "Poser:Runtime" folder. When I'm finished with a project I delete the "Poser:Runtime" folder and do the unzip thing and have a clean "Runtime" to start over with. What works for me may not work for you but I like doing it this way. I never keep any of the unused files in the ":Runtime" folder (things like "Hardhi" or 68 female models that will never be used) as the cleaner the ":Runtime" the faster the program responds. By the way I also zip the parent folder of Poser just in case I ever have a problem with any of the files. A 100 meg zip file takes a lot less space than a 5 gig runtime

I just have a completely segmented and neurotic dir structure in my runtime, and a copy of it in a PoserTemp folder. I install to the copy, and then put everything where I want to end up, so that I can find stuff again. What kills me though is when people don't list what figure a model is for sigh. The one thing in Poser 5 that I'd really really want on a mythical poser 4.5 is the Poser5 nesting trees thing. That would be very very cool. sigh example of names in Character: Clothes - Michael, Clothes - Michael Poserstyle, Char - DAZ, Char - Animal, Props names in Poses: Poses - p4fem stand, Poses - p4fem sit, MAT - Vik eyes, MAT - V skinsuits, MOR - V Char Hope that helps some:) Also search for a thread called "rebuiding runtime"

All these responses were GREAT!! Thank you for all your kind suggestions. I'm pondering each and will start playing soon to see what works best for me. You folks are Great and I hope to be able to give back to the community in the not to distant future. Strixowl :-)