ssgbryan posted at 2:39AM Mon, 02 March 2020 - #4382251

Poser does have a search function. Most vendors, however use insane naming conventions that keep the search function from working properly.

I have never used the Poser library's "Search" function b/c it's so much faster and easier to search using the Finder (which can do simple searches as well as more complex combinations, like all PNGs with the word "chair" in the filename added within the last 2 months). If I control-click on an item in the library, I get a "Show in Finder" option, making it super easy to navigate to content that way.

As for naming conventions, I just rename everything to whatever makes the most sense to me! I also assign my own Finder tags to the preview images for various items, like Shoes-Female, Desks, Steampunk, or whatever. I'm pretty sure you can do advanced searching and tagging in Windows Explorer as well?? My thought is: why depend on Poser (or any application) to organize and search my content, when my computer's OS already excels at those tasks?

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