Style file (*.sty) can be located in two (actually three) different places.

BIAB StylePicker will find them if they are located either in the C:\BB (or wherever you installed BIAB) folder or in the C:\BB\Styles folder. So yes, you can move the style files (only) to a C:\BB\Styles folder. You'll have to rebuild the list after you do that though.

The only other option is that if you have a song that already exists, the style(s) associated with that song will be found also if they are in the same folder as the song itself. This is good for when you might create one-off user styles that you don't need to have picked up when you rebuild the StylePicker list, since StylePicker will only find styles in the two folders mentioned above.

Keep in mind, however, that when you upgrade to a new version of BIAB in the future, you may find all the PGMusic files getting re-deposited back into the main folder again.

What I do is to keep all my PGMusic styles in the main C:\BB folder and keep all my third party styles (from Norton, FineTuned, and others), along with my own user styles in the C:\BB\Styles folder. Helps keep them separated.

I generally don't worry about the number of files, because I don't work out of the C:\BB folder, but I manage all my song files in a completely separate song data folder (which is actually on a completely different drive than the BIAB folder.

John

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