gagnonrich opened this issue on Mar 15, 2004 ยท 10 posts
FishNose posted Tue, 16 March 2004 at 3:30 AM
I have a different trick entirely - I use folder naming conventions. I have each prop, or class of props etc in folders with appropriate, descriptive names, along with thumbs. This applies to both stuff installed in Poser Runtime and to the original zips and thumbs, which I keep in two separate places. And then I use good old Win Explorer to do a search through the whole drive and my hundreds of thousands (!!) of files. So yesterday I wanted a particular piece of clothing by BAT - I wanted to see when I bought it, which version I have etc. A quich search gave me a couple of hundred BAT hits and I localised the thing I wanted. Takes a coupe of minutes. I do about 15 searches every day. Without building any databases, without any work at all :o) Been doing this since '98. So if I want to see what spaceships I have, I'll do a similar type of search - 'space' for instance. Or by artist/modeler, 'hoagland'. And so on. If I want to browse thumbs I use ACDSee and flip through the folders I found in my search. The only work involved was creating all those folders in the first place - as I collected all the stuff I have. I put each month of purchases and freebies into a new folder tree. A month needs about 800 new folders in that tree. I have an empty folder tree that I use as a template every new month, so many of the folders are already there when I start. Each month of Poser stuff comes to about 2 Gig on average. And I backup every 2 months to DVD, 2 months just fit onto a disc. :] Fish