I found that lots of runtimes became too much of a headache to keep track of and switching between them on pre-P8 versions too slow.

Soooo, like SamTherapy, I keep everything in one runtime - and that's now Poser's own. It's not just because of the whole exp thing but also because some Python scripts need to find items in their default location.

The primary subdivisions are fairly basic:

Human

Fauna

Props & Places

Toons

The Human catagory is then subdivided by family (ie DAZ/e-frontier generations), and then by figures. Within each human figure there are further simple subdivisions.

For Character: Figure, Body Props (such as creature creator, wings, etc) and Clothes (subdivided into Modern, Historical, Fantasy, etc).

For Poses: Characters, Injections,Body Props, Clothes (further divided into the same catagories as the clothes character files), Magnetize, and Poses.

The Fauna get divided into Fantasy (which is further divided into Dragons, Ogres, Nursoda, Smay, aliens, etc), Robots, Domestic, Mounts, and Wild (divided into Aquatic, Bugs & Insects, Birds, Reptiles, Simians, etc).

Props and Places are divided into Modern, Historic, Fantasy, Other Cultures, Environment. Modern is then divided into Exteriors, Interiors, Furnishings, Vehicles, Weapons, Props. There are further divisions from them.

It takes a little while to set up but is well worth it. And once it is done it is done and easy to maintain. I maintain three copies of the runtime. One is Poser's own and so in the internal hard drive, the second is on the back up of my external drive, and the third is on my laptop.

The steps to maintaining these are fairly easy. Once my initial runtime was created, I made an empty runtime with all of the catagories that I had created, this empty template was then put into a zip folder. When I'm ready to install my purchases, I simply unzip the template to a temporary folder and install the content to that. Next I run a simply runtime repair utility (optional, I guess). Now I start to move the items into their correct catagories, copy the result to the external drive, the internal runtime and then move it to a usb stick to transfer to the laptop.

It all sounds long winded but it is simple in practice and means that I can find what I need and sleep secure in the knowledge that if anything goes wrong, there should still be one working copy of the runtime to rescue me.