VaM 1.x Hoarding Best Practices

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Hey Guys

I´m new to VAM and find it quite enjoyable (with the appropriate plugins). Now I can easily imagine my library growing exponentially in the coming months, which as I've read seems to be causing people issues.
For people that have been around longer: is there any way you would recommend organizing your VAM contents? Do you have any regrets about not filing it in a certain way from the beginning and having to go back and reorganize everything? How do you handle creators offering their content in different formats (splineVR for examle, a great creator, offers zip files with a saves and custom folder, rather than a var file).
I really doubt that just throwing everything into VAM is a good way to store the content.

thanks and happy gooning
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Well, if you don't want a huge uncontrollable mess that will cost you FPS as well, don't hoard, be more selective.

Nowadays you're much better off as you have plugins like Browser Assist, VAR manager, etc, and not just having to rely on manual tasks and more hands-on options. Still, here's some tips:

• Already said, don't just download everything that exists, that never goes well
• You can have more than one VAM folder, so maybe have something like a more curated VAM, a VAM to try new stuff, a clean VAM when you need to start fresh, or any other option that works for your use
• Backup your shit! You're going to do something stupid at some point or HW will break. Really, this is going to happen, don't expect things to be online forever and your payed content costs money, so backup stuff periodically