“Even worse, when you find the .obj anywhere but the geometries folder :))”

I can only guess that the original intent was for ‘multi-use’ files to be in a central location. There were a slew of early items that referred to the gold reflection map for instance. Even today we have multiple .cr2s referring to Vickie’s geometry etc. so it makes sense. The alternative seems to be multiple copies or needing to be careful not to delete an .obj when deleting a .cr2 etc. when it still may be being used by something else. It would take an internal database tracking every reference to at least warn you in the latter case I would think. Oops, even then, you’d need to have a way to uninstall from within Poser or a constantly running service monitoring the file system., otherwise Poser would have no way of telling if you deleted something manually.

Now for ‘one off’ items I can see the utility of putting the .cr2 and .obj in the same folder, though it does violate consistency. Neither strategy is without its drawbacks and either one will irk some people I’m sure.

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