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Subject: Storing Files in "Read-only" Questions, How do you tag your files?

Silvermermaid opened this issue on Apr 26, 2003 ยท 9 posts
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Silvermermaid ( ) posted Sat, 26 April 2003 at 11:47 PM ยท edited Sun, 12 January 2025 at 5:56 AM

I am wondering if storing files and keeping them corrupt free would be best if I tagged them Read-only? Like for Daz and Poser zip, exe files that you want to maintain there integrity do you think Read-only is a good choice to make or it doesn't matter? Thank you :)

Crescent ( ) posted Sun, 27 April 2003 at 12:00 AM

It works well in some cases. I know a lot of P4 people mark their geometry .rsr files as read only. It seems to stop the usual .rsr corruption. It may help for other files as well. Being lazy, I haven't bothered to test that on my files as I modify a lot of them.

tasquah ( ) posted Sun, 27 April 2003 at 12:58 AM

Silvermermaid are we talking about backups as in off line ? Like items you bought and installed and put some were for safe keeping ? A executable file wont change from a read only and neither will a zip. Say i have a drive named " D " i store all my purchase's on. And a sector of the drive fails. That means its toast or no good any more.

PeterWahoo ( ) posted Sun, 27 April 2003 at 1:42 PM

I make CD's of all the stuff I buy or download. I usually redo things so you can pop the cd in the drive, and see a web page illustrating the contents. Then you can click on the thumbnails to install the items.

maclean ( ) posted Sun, 27 April 2003 at 2:31 PM

The one file everyone should DEFINITELY mark as 'read only' is the main 'poser.RSR', located in the main folder with Runtime and the poser.exe. I discovered this a year ago when I was having problems with Poser crashing. I found out that most long-time poser users all change that .RSR to read only. Apparently, it become easily corrupted if it's left as 'archive'. Changing it certainly solved my problems. mac

Silvermermaid ( ) posted Wed, 30 April 2003 at 12:45 AM

Thanks for helping me all of you. Tasquah: it's for backup and also within the Poser 4 directory itself. PeterWahoo: Now that is a good idea, I never thought of that. Maybe I can make some nice PDF's of all the files and place them on CD. That's a great idea thank you :) Maclean: That's a life-saver, I never had these 2 files read-only, so I did tag them read only, anything to be more efficient, hehe :) Anyway, thanks a bunch

PeterWahoo ( ) posted Wed, 30 April 2003 at 7:25 AM

I'm glad to help, in any small way. There is a great program out there for cataloging your stuff. It's called Offline CD Browser. It's free! I'm not at my own computer right now, so I can't find the link to the site. I'd recommend that program for ctaloging your collection.

Silvermermaid ( ) posted Wed, 30 April 2003 at 8:21 AM

Attached Link: http://hem.spray.se/anders.peterson/ocdb.html

Hehehe, found it, and downloading it now! Sounds like a really cool program, thanks so much :)

PeterWahoo ( ) posted Wed, 30 April 2003 at 9:46 PM

Thanks for supplying the link for others. I'd seen a few other catalog programs, and had troubles understanding them. Unfortunately most of them don't have any documentation, and that leaves me dumbfounded (spelling?). I'm a little slow to learn software sometimes.

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