Quote - The point is you move them where you want them.  I have all the poses for clothes (the MATS) as subfolders of the geometry folders, and if there are accessories, I make a props subfodler under that clothing item.  So everything connected with a particular outift is under figures/!clothing/!V4/outfitname instead of spread all over the place. Another little thing is that you can have the same item in multiple places.  For example if a set of expressions goes with a set of poses, you can make a second folder off of the pose folder for the expressions, and keep them in two places.

Smart content slows me down, it doesn't speed up anything.

All it takes is having the discepline to put stuff where you are going to look for it when you install it the first time.  In general the only items you CAN'T move around without breaking things are textrues and geometry (.obj).  Anything in the six main folders can be tranferred to any other folder as long as the vendor has used paths correctly.

For DAZ anyway, I don't know if it breaks anything in Poser to do that.

 

As I discussed a little further down the thread from my initial post.

For experienced users manual sorting is a good way for organising your content. You really do need to have a good memory for this method as well as rigid structure for where you place things.

I can't really see how smart content can slow you down? You either prefer it and use it or don't and just close your smart content pane and sort content manually for use in the normal content pane.

Love it or hate you can't deny metadata is a potential solution to what for some is a content hide and seek mission.

For those with the Dicipline and the background knowledge manually sorting is also an option. Though I feel it's more labour intensive and less intuitive in application.