Hello, I'm trying to cut down some of the wasted space (well, wasted might be the wrong term :-) and wondered if converting alot of pz3 files that just sit around in my figures folder to pzz and compressing them. I won't lose anything this way will I? I have noticed the file size is considerably less.... Greymeister

Not that I've noticed. I have my whole runtime compressed. Poser uses the zip compression algorithm to compress the files.

There is a python script that will compress your runtime too. It is quite handy. It shold be in your python directory. You can tell it to compress the files and delete the uncompressed ones (or keep them but I don't know why you would want to). I did it on my ProPack installation and it saved me about a gig of space. It will compress .cr2 to .crz, .pp2 to .ppz etc... You don't lose anything. You just gain space. The one caviot is that compressed files show up as unlegible information in a text editor. SO... If you want to edit say... a .cr2 from a figure you just need to save it into your library with compression turned off in your prefs. Then it saves the figure as a .cr2 and can be edited. Cheers, Joe

Alright, thank you all for the info. I appreciate it.

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You usually need to keep the wavefront objects in the geometries folder when you save pzzs and pz3s

how can i compress files manually into this "pzz" format ? just zip he file and rename it from .zip to pzz (such as winamp skins that become .wsz ?" soudns too simple, and i cannot use python (poser 4 non propack) maybe such old version cannot handle the zip compression you are talkin about. But yes it would be a true gift if it could work.. just tell me

Sorry, Riddokun, but P4 (without Pro Pack) will not read compressed files. Yet another reason to upgrade.

If you use windows XP or win2K, and you are using NTFS (you should be) then use the "compressed folder" attribute instead.. that way you get compression of all files and you can still access them perfectly with say cr2 edit, or composer, or whatever you like.. Barrie.

Riddokun, the poser files arent compressed with zip, they are compressed with g-zip a different program despite the name. If you search for g-zip on the internet there is a free copy you can download though it is only a dos program. If you download g-zip then you can make zip load and decompress g-gzip files including the pzz ones.

Compression is cool... but be careful as compressed files are more suitable to corruptions than uncompressed ones... i have lost a character i have been working on for weeks and i have decided to disable this feature