having collected a huge number of items for poser its getting a bit hard to find somethings in a never ending scroll list is it possible to create my own catagory that i can simply add things to as i find them when im scrolling down for instance theres not a catergry for clothes and not all clothes come listed by what they are .often starting with the venders name so if i cant rember who did what its har to find an item. what i would like to do is is just drop them in with out having to hunt through the runtimes to find all the textures etc is somthing like that possible?

You can usually move items around within the category folder. So you can rearrange props as long as they stay in props .Remember to move the thumbnail and pp2 file together . Same for poses/figures etc.

Do NOT move anything in the runtime/geometries or runtime/textures folders

There are SOME props that have the geometry in the same folder as the pp2 file. Dont move those either , or you have to edit the file location in the prop file .

how do you do that ?

look in freebies for p3do (not the robot...;) it's what I use

I use Windows Explorer, it's the file manager that comes with Windows

problem using windows explorer is my pose directory is 41.7 GB with 131,564 files quite a lot to lok through if you dont know the name of the item your looking for LOL

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Sad to say, and very unhelpful it is too, but the only advice really is not to get into this mess in the first place. :) Trying to find something that you don't know the name of in 130,000 files is, to all intents and purposes, impossible.

I've spent worrying amounts of time organising my libraries, but I still can't find everything when I need it. I sometimes have to go back to the download site (assuming I can remember where I got the thing, and that the site is still there) to find the name of the zip, then search for that on my disk, and finally find out the library name. Worse than that, maybe, is when I don't even remember having a thing, and go around searching the net only to re-download something I already had.

I'm beginning to think that having an enormous library is counter-productive.

Having said that, I second pakled's recommendation for P3dO Explorer. You can see much more of what's in each library category at once, so if you're a visual browser, you stand more chance of finding whatever it may be.

As EnglishBob refers, it is impossible to amass a huge library and be able to know exactly where everything is without any structure of organization.  There is content that you will never use or ever find.  It would seem prudent to start documenting what you already have through some type of organized database with images of the product, name, author, etc, then separate the contents by category.  Delete the items you don't need if you have the zips or installers stored elsewhere.  Only install files you will use for a particular project and once done delete them or transfer to CD or external HD.  I have set up such a system of my own and it keeps the runtimes trim and lean.  Only the most important files are permanently installed. 

Unfortunately for you, this is going to take years of dedicated overhauling to get your runtime respectable.

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I've spent worrying amounts of time organising my libraries, but I still can't find everything when I need it. I sometimes have to go back to the download site (assuming I can remember where I got the thing, and that the site is still there) to find the name of the zip, then search for that on my disk, and finally find out the library name. Worse than that, maybe, is when I don't even remember having a thing, and go around searching the net only to re-download something I already had.

I quote you so much! I do exactly the same!  :blushing:  :blushing:

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I've gotten comfortable with separate runtimes. I have one for each main figure (that I use), one for hair, one for archetecture, one for archectural props, one for vehicles, one for devices (tools, phones, weapons...) ...; then inside of each runtime's library folder, I have created separate folders for items. One for dresses, one for shoes, one for, skirt sets, one for undies, ... (This method of organization does often require that I modify the cr2, pp2, or hr2 so the the item can find its resources.) Unfortunately there are still times that I cannot find what I want; at those times, I search using the Finder (Mac OS file manager). So, I guess I'm saying that I agree with the above posters' comments. heheh! (:

I'm so glad I did mine differently from the start. It  would seem I'm going about it  the harder way, but I completely love it. I have all my files on an Xternal Harddrive (F:). I have Categories for each that are as follows, "CLOTHING" "HAIR". "HEADGEAR", "JEWELRY" "LIGHTS", "MATERIALS", "MORPHS", "POSES" "PROPS" "SHOES-STOCKINGS", "LINGERIE-SWIMWEAR"

Now some of those sound redundant, as jewelry could be in props, but "Props" to me, are like architecture, furniture etc.  In each, I have subfolders with the names of models. For right now, since I strictly use V4, I put all the other folders (Posette, V3, A3, S3 etc) in it's own folder called,  "OTHERS" as I don't have use for them, unless I'm converting clothing from one model to another.

So this is how my V4 clothing runtime looks.

F:Poser 6 RuntimeCLOTHINGV4

Then I have a seperate runtime for each and every clothing set. (Again redundant but it works for me). In the beginning of each folder, I have a PNG of that folder's content.

Whenever I start a new image, I open up Poser and add all the necessary runtimes. This way I don't have other things sitting in Poser that I'm not currently using. Once I'm done with that image, I remove the runtimes.

I think ill download p3do and give that a try I think part of thre problem is that with items from so may different sources there is no consistency with how things end up in the drop down menues in poser for example ive got hair in figures,hair,props,and pose so when iwant a hair im not sure which catergory it might be in . I started collecting anything i thought would be use full because I would see somthing and then later not know where from though knowing that youve got it some where but not where is nearly as bad

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 I keep my content organized by main figure. So for instance, I have

libraries/character/v4/clothes
libraries/character/v4/hair
libraries/character/v4/figures
libraries/pose/v4/clothes matts
libraries/pose/v4/skins
libraries/pose/v4/poses
etc...
on so on for A3, V3, M3.

I use ThumbsPlus to make contact sheets of the libraries. Contact sheets are useful if you have a lot of content --much faster to flip through contact sheets of hair styles, background, cothing matts, etc, than to sift through the content via Poser's interface.