Quote - Devise a sensible folder structure, like Characters/Clothing/V3/Tops and Props/Buildings/Fantasy and stick to it.

Amen!!! I have many external runtime folders because I like to have my runtimes based on "themes" IE: V3 Clothing Runtime Inside the Library/Character and Library/Poses folders I also have sub folders: - Morphing Clothing - Non Morphing Clothing - Jewelery - Shoes I also have sub folders in those where I sort by outfit, which is especially important in the Poses folder where your textures are. For example, the Morphing Fantasy Dress has a bazillion textures for it and I have many. If I were to just dump them into the Poses/Morphing Clothing folder, it would be a mess. So I have a sub folder in there called "MFD", and that's where ALL of my MFD textures go. Same with the Morphing Cocktail Dress, or any outfit that has multiple texture packages for it. I also have a V3 Character Addon Runtime. Inside the library/character and library/poses, I sort my character addons in folders named for the merchant. I am partial to some artists' so rather than just dumping them into the runtime I put them in sub folders bearing the name of the merchant. Also, in the Library/Poses folder of the Character Addon Runtime, there are loads of folders deposited by DAZ, so if I dumped all of my addon textures in there, even if they are contained in folders named for the merchant, I'd still not be able to find anything. So I created a !!!!Character Addons folder that sits up at the very top and everytime I install a character addon, it goes into that folder and away from all of the ! folders tha Daz installed. I find it's best to have naming continuity of your folders. When I install anything I install to a folder on my desktop and then sort it out in a way that I like. That means going into every Library folder that was created and renaming the folders that were deposited. Whatever name I pick to use inside the character folder, I use that exact same name throughout the rest of the library folders for that item. This way I can look folder to folder and see at a glance if there are any related items. It may take you several attempts to find an organizational method that works for you. I started off with one runtime. Then I moved to one runtime with many sub folders named from each character I had. Then those sub folders became more and more and finally I decided to do the multiple runtime thing. I'm very happy with the filing system I use for poser now and can't imagine doing anything else. I know what's in my runtimes and I know where to find every single file... save for textures because I don't move those around so if I have to look for those I usually have to go folder to folder or search my computer.

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