Lotharen posted at 11:51 AM Sat, 19 August 2023 - #4472967

@Rhia474 @Richard60 @RAMWorks  Thank you all for your comments and links. It is greatly appreciated. For must have's I was mainly thinking about lighting sets (I'm not the greatest at this part), or scripts/addons. 

Also, I do remember when I did this before I wasn't sure how to organize my runtime and it quickly turned into a cluttered mess. Anyone have any advice on this?

For what concerns the Runtimes organization: I think that each person here as his/her own ideas, but in case here's mine.
Up to Poser7, it was a total mess, because I was stupidly relying on each vendor's ZIP organization.
During the Poser8 era, I started to reorganized everything. The main idea: a folder has the name of the character/poses/material/hair etc..., the supplementary packages are always stored as sub-folders of the concernes character/prop/hair
Now you may keep as many runtimes as it suits you. IN my case, Characters is dedicated to any 4th generation, when I convert them to Sasha, the result is stored in the corresponding folder

Props are general-purpose items, whereas Landscapes concerns outside scenes items, even though some still lies under Props. Etc...

Example with some Pose setups for 3D-Age's clothes:

And everything lies on a dedicated SSD, labeled P: because I'm a Windows user 

And everything I buy is stored the same way as the poses and materials: by vender of the object, on a NAS

and regularly duplicated on pocket-size hard drives, same goes for the runtimes and the folders hierarchy that holds my Poser projects.

Last but not least: using Poser's Favorites system and hard links for Windows (but the equivalent exists probably on Mac systems) you may create links that points to your most-often used items:

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