Miki 4 Install issues in W10

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• Chohole Posts: 33,604

  July 2019 edited July 2019

  You may be better moving this query to the Poser forum.   You can do that by clicking on the gear Icon on your first post, clicking on edit  and then clicking on Poser discussion from the drop down list on the righthand side of that page and then clicking  "Save Comment"

  Post edited by Chohole on July 2019
• bnstone_stone Posts: 79

  July 2019

  Moved. Thank you.
• DreamingGirl Posts: 227

  July 2019

  Which version of Poser do you have? From what I remember, Miki 4 can only be installed to Poser 9/PoserPro 2012
• WandW Posts: 2,783

  July 2019

  If Poser is installed in c:/Program Files you can't install content in your Poser program directory in WIndows 10 unless you have UAC turned off.  Where is your Poser content installed?  Try creating an empty text file called poser.exe in that location and point the installer there...
• bnstone_stone Posts: 79

  July 2019

  Poser 11 Pro. Why can it not be installed in Poser if it is a Poser product? I got her when I had Poser 9, now I've wasted money on a characture I purchased? 

  DreamingGirl said:

  Which version of Poser do you have? From what I remember, Miki 4 can only be installed to Poser 9/PoserPro 2012

   
• bnstone_stone Posts: 79

  July 2019

  ?

  Other content can be installed, but not her?

  This is kind of a messed up feature if I bought her but cannot reinstall because of some technical oversite. Has there been any suggestions to fix this glitch? 

  WandW said:

  If Poser is installed in c:/Program Files you can't install content in your Poser program directory in WIndows 10 unless you have UAC turned off.  Where is your Poser content installed?  Try creating an empty text file called poser.exe in that location and point the installer there...

   
• DreamingGirl Posts: 227

  July 2019

  bnstone_17c4c6d3f8 said:

  Poser 11 Pro. Why can it not be installed in Poser if it is a Poser product? I got her when I had Poser 9, now I've wasted money on a characture I purchased? 

  DreamingGirl said:

  Which version of Poser do you have? From what I remember, Miki 4 can only be installed to Poser 9/PoserPro 2012

   

  I'm not sure of the reason for this, if it's for technical reasons, or just a limitation in the installers, but I think it looks for content specific to P9/2012. This applied to both Miki4 and Tyler GND as far as I remember. If you still have Poser 9, you can install her to that, but you can still use her in later versions of Poser, just add the Poser9 library.
• scheusal242 Posts: 9

  April 2022 edited April 2022

  It's not nice that the installer is fixed on Poser 9 library.

  Unfortunately, I was not able to install it with Poser 10 or higher because the Poser path was not found. Error message: "Poser is not in the selected directory"

  GND Tyler (.exe) and Miki 4 (.exe) were made with Inno Setup (Installer).

  However, this "innoextract" program works for manual unpacking of the content of such Inno Setup programs. 

  This tool is free and a command line program:
  constexpr.org/innoextract

  Here's a way to get the content anyway, you use like this:

  start the command prompt:

  cmd

  Go to the innoextract directory on the command line

  Usage:

  innoextract FILE

  Examples:

  innoextract GNDTyler.exe

  Examples:

  innoextract Miki4.exe

  In this example, innoextract.exe and TylerGND.exe as well as Miki4.exe should be in one directory.
  If the names of the installers are different, you can rename them as above.

  The unpacked files (Runtime) can then be found in the code$GetContentDir and code$GetDefaultDirName folders.

  It worked. 

  Post edited by scheusal242 on April 2022
• WandW Posts: 2,783

  April 2022

  scheusal242 said:

  It's not nice that the installer is fixed on Poser 9 library.

  Unfortunately, I was not able to install it with Poser 10 or higher because the Poser path was not found. Error message: "Poser is not in the selected directory"

  GND Tyler (.exe) and Miki 4 (.exe) were made with Inno Setup (Installer).

  However, this "innoextract" program works for manual unpacking of the content of such Inno Setup programs. 

  This tool is free and a command line program:
  constexpr.org/innoextract

  Here's a way to get the content anyway, you use like this:

  start the command prompt:

  cmd

  Go to the innoextract directory on the command line

  Usage:

  innoextract FILE

  Examples:

  innoextract GNDTyler.exe

  Examples:

  innoextract Miki4.exe

  In this example, innoextract.exe and TylerGND.exe as well as Miki4.exe should be in one directory.
  If the names of the installers are different, you can rename them as above.

  The unpacked files (Runtime) can then be found in the code$GetContentDir and code$GetDefaultDirName folders.

  It worked. 

  That's great to know!  Thanx!!
• Semicharm Posts: 373

  July 2022

  With the old SM installers, it's possible to bypass all of the prompts and extract the contents without using a separate app. Either from the command line or shortcut add the parameters /SILENT /DIR="." to extract the files to the current folder.

  For some reason, Microsoft removed the option to launch the Command prompt from the current folder. If you find it confusing, or just a hastle, here's how to create a self extracting shortcut for the SM installers.

  1. Right-click the instller, in this case Miki4.exe. Select Send to, then Desktop (create shortcut). Unfortunately, that's the quickest way to create a shortcut to a specific file.
  2. Go to the Desktop, right-click the flle Miki4.exe - Shortcut, and select Properties.
  3. Add this text to the end the Target field /SILENT /DIR="." and click OK.

  If you want, you can then move the shortcut back to the original folder.