Do You Save Your Clothing Textures?

I'm just curious, because slowly but surely, my inventory is becoming an incredible mess. So, after you create the outfit you want with the photoshop/paintshop textures and save it, do you keep all of your original uploaded textures? Obviously you don't need them to get the item to rez up when its been morphed into a shirt or whatever - but is there a valid reason to save each and every texture for future use?

I suppose if you ever needed it, its only 10L to upload it again - still curious what other designers do on this.

I keep a separate folder under "Textures" that is called "Used". Maybe I'm cheap (or poor!) but once I upload it and it works, I hate to destroy it. Especially if it's the kind of texture that could be used for something else one day.

By moving it out of my main Textures folder, it reduces clutter.

I used to keep all of mine - for costs reasons I suppose.

But since the recent information going out that we should be striving to keep our inventories under control, I went thru and tossed all the ones from my first line of clothing.

You CAN consolidate all your textures in storage boxes from Thinc (it has a preview, privacy lock, retrieve and other features) or just stuff them inside a prim or pack them all into a notecard to save space in your inventory.

I keep everything. You never know when you might need to turn a shirt into a jacket or a tattoo into an undershirt to create different outfits. Also, my SL inventory serves as kind of an emergency backup from time to time. If I delete a texture off my local machine by mistake or if I have a drive failure, at least what's in SL will survive. Even the textures that were experimental at the time of upload, like clothing with unfinished seamwork, are useful from time to time. I don't keep them all, but I do keep a few key stages of the evolutionary record. If I've got a stubborn garment that I'm having trouble with, it's helpful to go back and look at the history of similar garments so I can see what I did to correct the problem. The UV's on the downloadable av models are a bit off, so it's much more beneficial to look at the real thing.