Organising Textures

I've only been in world since December but must have about 1k of textures. I bought texture organisers but apart from taking forever to decide which goes in where, it would take me a month to fill them.

So this is a question for those of you who have a huge amount of textures - how do you organise them so you can find one when you need it?

Thanks

Folders, folders, folders (Under the textures folder)

My recommendations:

First move the ones you know you will not use OUT into a folder for "non-used but want to keep" textures.

Then keep your main texture folder as clean as you can - it's for uploaded textures and textures-in-transition.

Have a "Most Used" folder for textures you use a lot.

Then it's just a matter of making folders to group the remaining.

I have about 3000 textures and I organize them according to what I use them for: Building, Hair, Clothing...etc.

Then I create sub-folders: Building -> Wood -> Floors for example.

If I know I'm not going to be using a certain set of textures for a while, say I'm not going to be building anything in the near future, I take these and drag them into the Contents of a box (prim cube), then take the box into inventory. 500 hundred textures then only takes up 1 item in my inventory.

Then, just to be safe, I send a copy of the box, full perms, to an alt I created for holding copies of my inventory (in case my inventory up and disappears mysteriously).

Good luck....I know it's a pain, but it's very much worth it!

~Ari

Thank you for your replies I had better get sorting and putting a pile of them into a cube is a brilliant idea.

35000+ textures...

and 100.000+ on dvdvs -.-;

Id kill for a thumbnail browser in SL

Hmmm ....

I have a flame thrower you can borrow

You're welcome Alexa!

I can't remember where I read about the using the cube for storage....maybe it was my husband who suggested it? Maybe I read it? But it wasn't totally *my* idea (but tis briliant!).

~Ari

Oh me too!!!!

I find the abilty to view 12 textures at a time, and move quickly through them, worth the trouble of sorting them to an organizer. I found it easier to sort and get rid of duplicates in an organizer also. Saving duplicates copies is always a good idea.

No killing required - there's a few texture thumbnail 'programs' around - but try the *free* one from TRU Textures - it's in there with the free catalogue... through the main doors and turn left last time I looked. I don't go there anymore - I just buy from the catalogue...

Cat x

Good idea but can you imagine transferring 35,000 textures into organisers? Six months later, only 10,347 more textures to be transferred to the organisers! lol.

Like all of you I have thousands of textures. i use organisers/boxes and folders/subfolders to store them.

This is a bandaid approach which we all have to suffer. It way past time that sl had the option to have thumbnail views of textures in the picker to save constantly searching through lists of textures that have been saved with a generic name and a number.

A heartfelt plea to all texture makers. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE use descriptive names for textures so we have some idea what the texture is without opening them.