I have just tons of stuff for Poser, characters, clothes,props, etc etc...the entire thing installation is quite messy...probably more than half of the stuff is split between p4/p5 runtimes... I want to bring it all into P5...but in an orderly way so I can find what I want when needed. Even now in P5, the file list is extremely long..especially the pose library with all the MATS etc... How can I set this all up so I can install all my purchased stuff, especially the purchased stuff, so it can be located and used easily without scrolling forever through the list. Do I need multiple runtimes...such as one for VIC2, VIC3, etc etc...or is there a better way to do this???? Subfolders within the current structure? If I move things around, will P5 not know where it is???

Luckily for us Poser5 will see the subfolders & you'll be able to access them as normal, also I'd suggest you seriously think about getting PBooost sometime in the future. Being able to arrange everything into seperate runtimes/banks makes poser so much easier to use.

I'm a little confused by poser5 and PBoost. why whould I need PBoost if I can have multiple runtimes with Poser 5 and put things where I want. isn't that what PBoost does? I'm starting to feel the runtime crunch too. lots n lots of stuff in there. I'm so leary of buying utilities even though PBoost has great reviews and people keep saying its' a must have. (this is also a shameless bookmark, I need this info too haha!)

to make things even worse...you should see my download collection....can't find anything, let alone figure out what it is... but lets get this P5 library worked out first :) Even my Poser 5 directory is trashed out with stuff...how does it get there? I would like it all to be cleaned up...there are even folders in ther for P4 installation..such as Program Files/Metacreations/P4...this is in the root P5 directory...plus tons of readmes, textures , and all kinds of other files... I suppose some rapmant installs just plop files wherever... Does anyone have a very clean, perhaps new Poser 5 install so I can see what files are actually in the C:ProgramFilesCuriousLAbsPoser5 directory ???? guess i could reinstall P5..but that seems like it would be painful....

this may help with downloads. I started downloading the thumpnail with the file. having the same name as the zip file now I can just right click on a jpg and SEE what the zip is. I throw all this on a CD with directories of where I go tthe item. like Renderosity, RuntimeDNA, SAM3D etc etc etc I have a CD cataloger and I can scroll through the CD and it acts as a database. with over 13g on CD I had to come up with something, it was getting completely out of hand. now if my runtime was as organized as my CDs I'd be very very happy.

Well, I'm still loading stuff to my P4 runtime and still using pbooost to organize it a bit. P5 is linked on my machine for everything other than the native stuff in P5. The reason for this is because I still use P4 and don't want to ditch it just yet. When P5 stabilizes to the point where P4 just isn't needed any more then I suppose I'll break up the runtimes into sub sections so that its easier to navigate. Like have a .mat runtime instead of a zillion mat folders in the poses directory. So I use pbooost heavily for that 'spring cleaning' every so often that is needed in the libraries. I think even if I had P5 only I'd still use pbooost because its a real easy file navigator to use with the runtime. The only drawback for me is that I'm one of those FAT32 NT guys so the switch banks doesn't work.

P5 along with XP allows me to stack and rack my library items in accordance with strict adherence to the prinicples of time sensitive stratographic objectively oriented paradigmical parallel organization as impacted by the over arching considerations of plot and chracter development. Also known as the pilum method. The real problem is with texture files which under P5 must be exactly where the library item says it is. All file paradigmically oriented must further by calibrated and effectivized by running CorrectReference ... a free utility on this site.

gets out dictionary, looks up words, rereads messege, looks up more words, give up and goes and plays teris

P5 duplicates the P4 content and then adds more. There is nothing from a P4 install that you need to move. I moved all of the stuff that I do not use to a remote Runtime. I had leaned up Poser 4 a long time ago, now I can at least get a P3 figure if I ever need to. You should probably keep the P5 Runtime lean and mean. You need Geometries: deform / lights / and maybe props. The rest is fair game to move. You do need to keep V3 and her !DAZ there. I have a Runtime for V3 clothing and a Runtime for V1 clothing. They are both already too large to copy to a single CD. I keep the specific clothing textures with their library files' Runtime. Poser 5 uses tiles very effectively. You can do a lot of cloth texturing and prop texturing using seamless tiles. I have a completely separate folder - not a Runtime - with the tiles broken down. (It is 500 meg/ 4500 files/100 folders now.) Multiple Runtimes can access them with no duplication. Think thru your organization though. You can put generic paths - starting at Runtime in the Library files, BUT, when you use Poser to save these files, the paths get rewritten back to the root. Moving them again is a lot of repair work. The MATposes will be a nightmare. For a lot to them, it is almost impossible to figure out which clothing item they are for. I make a texture folder for each clothing item and put all of the textures for that item in there. It means editing the paths in the MATposes. Thank Jan Goyvaerts that EditPad Lite will let me batch edit upto 20 open files at once. Some editing will be needed for P5 anyway - the gradient bump channel does an inferior job in FireFly so you want to get *.BUM to *.jpg and the files back to greyscale. Then you can use Bump or Displacement Bump. You still must hand link them in the Material room. But the values will need to be more like 0.005-0.01 than the default 1.0.

Boy oh boy I was just wondering about this very same thing! I use p4pro and thought that I could just take all the files "say vicki mats" and put them into one folder called vicki3 and continue to do this with everything, Can't I??? Or would poser lose the associated files if I did that? I already know not to use sub folders, that didn't work so good lol. To think I thought this was going to be the one easy thing to do lol