Can you please try to come up with original names for your content? There are a lot of great things available but when you name your dress "dress" there is the risk that it may get written over by the next "dress" it also makes it difficult to credit you when we use your content.

Like what? There's only so many ways you call a little black dress a little black dress.

How 'bout "<>dress". That's why designers have labels.

How about "Eclark's really awesome little black dress for Roxie number 1"? or " Sleeveless little black dress" or "strapless little black dress" or even "little black dress" would be better than "dress". I seriously just installed 2 dresses by the same creator for the same model named simply dress.

Then you'll be complaining about how long the filenames are.

I'm just messing with you. I don't think your request is unreasonable.

arent vendors supposed to use folder names like

runtime/libraries/character/FredNurk/LBDress/Dress01.cr2   or is that an old standard ?

Quote - arent vendors supposed to use folder names like

runtime/libraries/character/FredNurk/LBDress/Dress01.cr2   or is that an old standard ?

Christ, I hope that isn't a standard - that makes the search function useless.

I try to use the type of dress as a descriptor, but sooner or later somebody else will use that same naming convention. Little Black dress, Halter dress, Cheongsam. I know for a fact that there are three different Cheongsam dresses in my runtime, and two of them I made. one for Miki4 and the other for Anastasia. The third one is one for the G2 female figures.

'Dress' at least says what it is. A cheongsam may turn out to be the ideal sort of dress I need for my project, but if it does not show up when I search for a dress I may not find it.

The thing being a dress is just one aspect. It also being chinese (style) is just as important. Then for need of variation or standing out in origing the maker may name it 'qipao' or, in other spelling 'chipao'. Then this would only work for users relying on a Latin character set. Not sure if a user working in chinese would see those items turning up in a search.

Of course this holds not only for chinese dresses for 'Kleid' (German), 'Robe' or 'Jupon' (French), 'Vestido'(Spanish) 'Jurk'(Dutch), or what you want.   

The name of a thing can be a unique identifier, but anything unique by definition is not suitable as a searchable term unless one knows the answer to the search already. John Wilkins Real Character was a nice try but it did not work.  

The name of the maker in the product name is just a waste of space. 

Really more effort should be put in providing searchable Metadata. Search terms should be standardized ('clothing, female, skirt typelower part'), and stores should not accept items without a fully filled metadata file and add a unique identifier of the item. 

However, this would reduce the waste of content by users (who will buy new things when they already own a similar item but failed to find it) so it would be bad for business and will not materialize.

Yeah, but a keyword search is only as good as the keyword used. If the user does not remember (or know) what the dress is called, how could they type in the keyword. On the othe hand a word like "dress" is so ubiquitous and vague as to border on useless.

Well I don't agree about the creator's name being a waste of space :) but I suppose that's what you're used to and how you remember things. I remember things by their name. And if I know I have EClark's Little Black Dress.. I'd search for EClark rather than "dress". Same with Trekkie's  Black Dress or Trekkie's [whatever]

But then again I keep things as they come (providing they come with a proper runtime structure at all) so.. I use the search a lot :)

I just look at the pictures. :-)

In my library, all the dresses for a particular figure are in a folder named, with blinding originality, "Dresses". I have to rename stuff on a regular basis, as you can imagine, but it's no big deal.

Quote - I just look at the pictures. :-)

In my library, all the dresses for a particular figure are in a folder named, with blinding originality, "Dresses". I have to rename stuff on a regular basis, as you can imagine, but it's no big deal.

I end up doing something similar - I have clothing subfolders (in a separate V4 Clothing Runtime) - Casual - Fantasy - Lingerie - Period Clothing - Shoes - Clubwear - Swimwear - Uniforms

I reorganize everything that gets put into my runtime. Everything.

ETA: Reorganization is -necessary- to make things easily findable. Search doesn't really work as well as this tactic, I've found. A little extra time during install makes things easy-peasy to locate in my Runtime.

I have my organization too so usually fining things isn't a problem. The problem come in when I have 2 dresses by userX and one by makerY all called "dress". And then try to match which dress with the mat files because now I've had to rename the dresses so I don't over write them. Even "dress1 uX", "dress 1 mY"  would help some.

"black dress for a long cool woman", by the Hollies.