I just discovered that Poser now occupies almost half of my 30 gig hard drive. Actually it is a little more than half. Curious I started going through the various files and folders. I discovered that alot of the stuff in my Poser folder is stuff that I don't use anymore and don't need. I never use posette anymore, perfering to use either Vickie or Vickp4. By the same token I don't use the Dork, but Mike. I also discovered that my Poser folder itself was a mess, I started to clean it up and then decided to start all over and only load the props and characters that I use all the time. I don't want all those extra files on my computer. I need to make room for a couple of new ideas that I want to try and to develop...

Well butch I wish I had a 30gig hdrive I currently only have 3 gig and as you know poser without any extras takes one hell of a chunk of that. My wife is positive that vikki and mike must procreate while our system is shut down because our poser folder grows all by itself. Best of luck cleaning it up Bowen & Charlie Ps try keeping mike & vikki in seperate folders it might help!!!! LOL

I just counted. I have 55 CD's including the stuff setting on my hard drive waiting to be burned, of nothing but poser stuff that I have download since I got started with P4. And 98% of that is stuff I got from the Free Stuff area...

I'm running out of space on my 120 gig HD ... sorry. And I store the original zips on another drive. Textures take up half the space.

I have edited Poser4+Pro-pack down to the bare essentials - around 80 mb in total. As you have done Butch, I have removed all the P4 characters but the Daz Vicky/Mike/Milkids which I use. The only item I have kept is the Poser 4 Lo man as he is needed by the Walk Designer. I keep a zipped up copy of this basic runtime ready to drop in for any new project. My zips are burnt onto CD for safekeeping and I unzip them all and arrange them into ready-to-load runtime folders and then re-zip them onto a separate CD. I keep an excel file with a picture of what each contains with a hyperlink to each zip from the picture so I can quickly assemble a range of items for a particular project. Items like pose files I unzip and keep on disk and use PD3O explorer to locate what I want to use quickly. I am currently editing out P4 stuff from Poser 5 and keep only the P5 stuff and Victoria 3 on it. On a spare hard drive I have around 6-7 gb of textures/tools/etc. Props you can import from anywhere but I find my hair folder is still a little large.

When I recently did a clean-up, removing items I had no intention of using in the foreseeable future, I think it freed up about 500MB from Runtime. This appeared to improve Poser's response time, temporarily, until those 500MB got replaced, quick, courtesy of PoserWorld. :-)

I just got a new system...60 gig drive which is a huuuge upgrade for me from my old but still reliable 15.03. Already running out of space, LMAO. When budget allows I'm probably going to follow the sage advice from threads in the past and give Poser its own drive.

You might consider buying a new, larger hard drive for Poser. You could also consider having one large hard drive for Poser itself, and another larger hard drive for your artwork or projects. Those external hard drives look very appealing these days. You may pay a few bucks more, but you can only have so many drives inside your computer case unless you add new controller cards, etc. The only "catch" (besides money) for me right now is that the external hard drives require either Firewire or USB 2.0. I have an older computer. Probably it would make more sense to eventually go ahead and upgrade the motherboard/CPU, memory and video card, then think about external hard drives.

Right now I don't have the money for any solution. My Jeep died and I am sans wheels. I had thought about getting a second hard drive when I got my computer just about a year ago. I just didn't think that Poser could fill up a 30 gig drive!

Peter: PCI cards with 4 USB2 or 2 USB2 & 1 Firewire are pretty cheap, arounf 40-45 GBP I recall.

My computer is a "frankenstein" contraption. I've built it "from scratch," using a list of parts that keep changing. That includes 3 hard drives of varyious capacities, and a 48X CD burner. I've already replaced some parts including the case. I just get what I can, when I can. Yes, I understand financial problems. My car works fine, but I'm hunting for a new job. And then there is the newfound joyful world of the DVD player, switching boxes to allow use of the archaic 20-year-old vcr, etc. Oh, let's not forget the eventual desire to have the ability to somehow put this all together with the computer so I can do some home video editing, etc.