Thanks, Foxseelady and Xoconostle. It's taking a bit of time to get this typed, but I only want to do it once (dyslexic) and want it to be useful to others. The problem with making firm statements is avoiding sounding didactic... while desperately hoping that my friends manage to avoid some of the pitfalls and frustration of dealing with so much material. Free stuff here currently has close to 10,000 items and it is only one site out of dozens. Add the stores. Even if a person is extremely selective about what they download, without some system of organization, their directory is going to be a mess. Building a scene in Poser is a lot more fun if an artist can find everything. I have 4 years experience as a reference librarian so I do know something about how to label and file documents so that other people can find them, and how to do it in a neutral way. But even so, I didn't lay out my folders as a complete range of all items, but according to what I personally use. Someone doing martial arts movies or science fiction games might not even have a category for animals... but have an entire heirarchy of weaponry with nested folders. The only important thing is that a person make some folders according to their needs and start the sorting process immediately. I figured that an example with breakdown would help. :) Well, maybe not with my breakdown! ;^) Back to typing... Carolly