Questions About Categories

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What are best practices regarding existing/smart categories vs user categories? If I wanted to remove all existing smart categories, what is the best way to do that? Do I need to do anything to prevent DAZ from updating them/adding them back via future updates? If it's ill advised to remove smart categories, is there a way to maintain a totally separate set of Categories, that only shows my custom ones and not the smart ones? Looking at the XML structure for the userdata file, it looks like categories are tied to content relative paths. If I migrate to a new machine, or uninstall/reinstall a package, is it as simple as keeping the paths the same as before to maintain the custom categories? Regarding the XMLish language, user error aside, are there any downsides to manually editing the userdata database for bulk changes? Thanks!