Quote - I guess us Mac users have a jaundiced view of the whole install thing anyhow. If I were to "open a zip onto my existing runtime" all it would do is DELETE the original and replace it with the new. Manual install becomes a way of life.

Ditto. Oh, ditto. I have things arranged 'how I can best find them when I need them', which is absolutely different than anyone else ever planned to set anything up, I'm sure. Since I have to do manual installs anyway, it seemed like it wasn't hurting anything to go all the way with it in terms of the items that actually appear in the library palette. Geometries and textures I just leave alone and where they were intended to be, but everything else goes where it's easiest for me to find it. Other people would probably be driven completely bonkers by my setup, but the reverse is also true. In terms of 'the files I access in-scene', everyone is going to have a different preference and setup. I have a runtime per character I use (and one for creatures, one for scenery elements, and so on). A lot of people don't do this, and therefore their setup needs are going to be a little different than mine since "it goes with this character" is assumed in the runtime selection. A lot of other things can easily influence this, too. For example, I broke up my pose folder into things like 'hair:style:texture sets', 'clothing:item:texture sets', 'character sets:product', 'poses:product' and so on and I never have any trouble finding anything now, but it takes a lot of work and upkeep. I'm not going to assume anyone at all has done anything even remotely similar no matter how much sense this makes to me, so I'm not going to structure an item in that way for distribution. I stick to the runtime:textures:surreality:product:file.jpg thing myself for textures, but that's just... intuitive to me. It's easiest for me to find what I need. Same general setup for the pose folder, with the knowledge that people can move the contents of that folder around, subdivide them, re-folder them, rename the folder, and so on, to best fit their file structure.

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