Quote - Hi Acadia, yep you are the expert here!   Like I mentioned in my thread, where are you posting these 52 external runtimes?  Help--Plutom

haha, not an expert :) I learned about external runtimes in this thread:

http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=9060&highlight=runtime&flatnum=1

I am very anal when it comes to organizing my computer files, especially Poser ones: largely because of the months of frustration I felt when I first started with Poser and was just "dumping" packages into the main runtime and not being able to find anything.  I tried sub folders in one runtime but while it helped, it wasn't organized enough for me. So that's when I tried external runtimes and never looked back :) I did take it to the extreme though,  LOL

I have a 360 gig partitioned hard drive and have my external runtimes on the large partition (D:Poser Runtimes).  I also keep a copy of them on my Notebook external drive as a backup.

Some examples of my runtimes are:

Aiko  (encompasses character addons and clothing)
Angels & Faeries
Backgrounds & Scenes (like Cyclorama stuff)
Mermaids
V3 Character Addons (any package that has a character addon in it, even if there are clothing in the package. It also contains the base figure and head and body morphs)
V3 Clothing
SP3 Character Addons
SP3 Clothing
*(basically a Character Addon and Clothing Runtime for each Millennium figure M3, David, V4)
*Millennium Kids
Animals
Birds
Halloween
Christmas
Props
Poses
Lights
Materials
Hair
Millennium Baby
Apollo Maximus
Plants & Flowers
Toonimal
Under Water
Vehicles

Each of  those runtimes have sub-folders inside for further organization. For example in the Props runtime.  For the character and Props and Pose folders I have them sub divided into the following !Asian (all fans & umbrellas and anything Asian related)
!Books
!Jewellery (further divided into type IE: necklaces, bracelets, earrings, crowns)
!Buildings & Villages
!Temples & Shrines
!Rocks
!Toys & Games
!Weapons (which is further divided into "archery", "blades"  and "guns"
!Magic & Canes
!Flowers
!Furniture
!Music
!Eye Glasses
!Crosses
!Aboriginal
!Lamps & Candles
!RelectiveSurfaces & Floors
!Party
!Sky Domes
!Vases & Urns & Statues
!Atmospherics (such as water, rain, fog, rainbows, leaves)
!Butterflies

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For my Poses Runtime, I have the Pose folder sub divided into "theme" IE: Dance, Couples, Male, Aiko (even though I use these on other figures), Faery, Child, Asian (Geisha), Magic, Pregnancy, Religious, Mermaid, Halloween, Human-Animal interaction (horse and rider), and  Furniture poses.  I also keep my Expressions in the Poses Runtime.  My expressions are sub divided into character they are for IE: V3, V4, Aiko, Millennium Kids, M3 ... for ease of location.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi