Poser Question
Faeryl Womyn
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Is it possible to amalgamated all Poser runtimes, since more then one has been created, and not have it glitch out the program. Have no more room on Cdrive and realized too late that runtimes could go on different drives, want to move all runtimes over to secondary drive?
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That should be safe, though you do need to be aware that if you isntall with DIM it records the absolute location of the files so, without editing the manifests files, it won't be able to remove the moved installations.
I'm sorry Richard I am talking about Poser not Daz, I was not aware DIM worked with Poser?
DIM can indeed install content to Poser, you simply need to add your Poser directory in the possible install paths. You can even install Poser plugins like DSON Importer if you define the path to your Poser app.
What I do is have a temp folder in my drive. I unzip Daz products to that folder. I then go into the content of the folder, click on the runime and copy the contents of the runtime, which I then poste to which ever Poser runtime I want that particular vcontent to go in. You need to move the contents of the unzipped runtime, not the runtime itself.
So don't merge runtimes, Copy and paste runtime content. May take a while but once it is done it is done, and you should have a nice neat system.
I keep categorised runtimes so one for V4, one for M4, one for K4, one for props, one for architecture, one for flowers and trees, etc etc.
PS I have my riuntimes on my D drive, and then copied them over onto an external drive as back up,
Thanks Leana.
Chohole, what do you do about lack of space on your main drive. The question in this case is that someone installed poser, installed content to it all on the main drive and is now running out of space in their drive, he wanted to know if all runtimes could be merged into one and put on a different drive. I guess I did not explain well enough the first time, I am bad for that...lol
When I upgraded to Poser 11 I took all my pervious runtimes (Poser 4, 5, 6 and 7), and copied them over to a new single runtime on an external hardrive. (I left the native Poser 11 runtime where it is but I don"t install anything new to it, except for some stuff for the Poser 8+ characters.) Somehow Poser 11 only accepted my external runtime once I inserted a copy of one of my Poser .exe files, but otherwise it runs like a dream. (Did take me some time to delete the double entrys and reorganise everything so that I could find it.) My Poser 11 program runs from another external harddrive, even that is possible. (Just make certain that you do not change any drive letters.)
Ok thank you. I gave him the link to this thread, he can read it even if he is not a member and he can let me know if he needs more info.
I actually never install programs onto my main drive. I had this machine built with the main drive only being 500gb and the secondary drive being the large one. The main drive has only OS, AV, malwarebytes and stuff that MS has put there. Bryce, Poser, Hexagon, Carrara etc are all installed on my D drive as are all my runtimes. Downloads to initially land up on my C drive and are then backed up to an external and removed from C. Merging the runtimes into one is not something I would do. I have 12 runtimes, categorised, plus a temp runtime and a test runtime. These last two are used when I am making content myself. However moving the runtimes to a different drive is as simple as setting the computer to copy them over to the other drive, Right click on the name of the runtime, and then select "Send To" from the drop down list and the select
And as I keep saying do not under any circumstance merge runtimes, Merge the content from inside the runtime to another runtime. If you merge the actual runtimes you will end up with runtimes within runtimes (nested runtimes) and nothing will work properly.
Ok thanks and will pass that on. Also will have him read this thread, maybe he will join so he can ask for help if he doesn't understand something. Oh and I think he said it was Poser 11 he has so that helps since most of the answers were about that version.