you create a scene and everything in poser then when its all complete and you render your picture, you save the project and put someone on your computer in an "archive" thinking you'll come back to it or something someday :) so you end up with many archived poser projects

Yep. I've done that right from when I first started using Poser.

meekly raises hand I can't tell you how many freebie projects I've started and saved.....and never went back to finish, LOL. One day, I'll focus, LOL.

I'm worse. I not only save the Poser file, I usually end up saving several previous versions. Sometimes dozens. Just in case I decide I want to go back to a previous version. I really should delete them, but by the time I get around to it, I've forgotten which one was the "good" one. So I keep them all. :-P

The solution is easy:

Format C:> Y/N <-----* Note (see Important Note below)

Just kidding ... DO NOT try this on your home computer.

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• This is the "Important Note" - this should only be attempted by someone who is fluent in:

o Basic
o Fortran
o Algol
o HTML
o Binary
o Octal
o Hexadecimal
o Sexadecimal
o French
o Italian
o Hebrew
o Sanskrit

There are prolly a few that I missed but these are the essential ones.

cheers, dr geep ;=]

Wouldn't help. They're all on the M: drive. :-) The scary thing is, it's a 265 Gb drive, and it's getting full. =:-O

At the risk of being (almost) repetatively redundant ... ...The solution is easy: Format M:> Y/N ;=] WARNING WARNING WARNING See the "Important Note" above in Post #5.

lol, doc all of mine are on cds, cant format a cd :) i have usually 1 cd per project, save between 5-10 versions as i progress (rare but sometimes up to 20) never overwriting, just saving new save files i start around 20 projects a week the guys who make stargate (scifi show) have cd wallpaper, and cd coasters, and much more, im not far off lol

o and thats just project files cant forget about all the morphs, mats, poses, props, characters, lights, cameras, and more and i wonder why i cant pay my rent.....

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As you may or may not know- We've been doing a daily comic strip with poser and bryce since spring of 2000. At the beginning (on a powercomputing mac clone), before I discovered hires textures and the mil figures, I'd burn a cd maybe every 2 weeks. By the end of the Starry Ones storyline (on an apple g4), it was 4 cd's a week. Today (on a dual processor G5) I'm cracking out a dvd just about every week. The attached image represents around 500 megs of dependent files- texture maps and .pz3's, which feed into a 157 meg bryce file- which generates a 3 meg cmyk tif print file- which becomes a 25k jpeg for the web. Only saving grace in this madness is that software (which is what all this drek ultimately is) is deductible.

Mitch

I do the same thing as randym77. Every project, several versions, then forget about it, only to go back later and can't remember which pz3 is the "good" one. But I have good news, a zipped PZ3 is lot smaller in file size, so even if you are a pack rat like me, at least you can free up some disk space by zipping the projects. I haven't had any problems unzipping and reusing formly zipped pz3s. bB

Thanks, that's a great tip! I'd gotten out of the habit of zipping files, since most large files these days are already compressed and don't seem to get much smaller when zipped (movie files, JPGs, etc.). Never thought to try it on Poser. Might help my organizing, too. I can just zip up all the different versions together. :-)

PZ3's are hugely wasteful and repetitive in normal form, which means they compress extremely small. Since long before Poser, I've made a habit of ZIPping up the current project each day; couldn't work without it. One nice shortcut is to keep a custom ZIPIT.BAT file in each main folder, with the commands for this particular project. Something like this, using WinRAR: del *.bak rar a dumbproject.rar *.pz3 *.obj *.jpg copy dumbproject.rar a:

I write mine to DVD-R on a fairly regular basis. Occasionally I'll dust one off and work on it again. A lot of my earlier gallery images will be reworked in time.

I've got way too many (must be the packrat genes) and can't believe I plain forgot I could zip the darn things like any other file. Thanks for the reminder, now I'll probably only need about half as many discs to put 'em all on.

o Basic o Fortran o Algol o HTML o Binary o Octal o Hexadecimal o Sexadecimal o French o Italian o Hebrew o Sanskrit Dr. Geep......you left out a few..... Pascal Cobol ASCII conversion C C++ LISP (or AutoLISP) Latin and Greek! Kristta

Oops, sorry. ;=[ Thanks Kristta fer fillin' in da "blanks." ;=]

You also forgot: Klingonese Romulan Vulcan (Old and Modern) Noldor Sindarin and Parseltongue! Oops, I almost left out NSGS -- Nay Say Guy Speek!!! ;-)

True story- about 10 years or so ago, a trade show was showing off one of the rudimentary speech to text command driven package. Among the crowd, someone yelled out 'Format C: !', followed shortly by someone else yelling 'Yes!'..the commands worked just fine..;)

I'm new to Poser but found myself making a folder for each thing I was working on, and saved my files in it as I worked. I did that for each project I started. I found it ate up too much disk space so I went and deleted them all. Now I don't bother. I save files until I'm done with what I'm working on, and then delete them. I don't like clutter on my computer and tend to go through the hard drive on a weekly basis to get rid of stuff that I am not using.

::snerk:: Then maybe they ought start calling it the Red House. ;-) Or do you mean some other kind of sleaze?

No problem Dr. Just had to glance over at my bookcase of knowledge and get a few that I noticed weren't there. Fortran...so many have no idea what that is. I liked that one. Kristta

Yup, I plan to still use it (Fortran) ...
(BTW - was that For-tran =or= Fort-ran?) ;=]

............... if I ever get bored with Poser.

WHAT ??? ........ POSER6 IS SHIPPING ON MONDAY !!!

I guess Fortran will just have to wait ...
(heh heh)

;=]

I burned out on programming. Quit the job I had and went into computer aided drafting. Lost that job (darned budget cuts). I love playing with Poser but the most programming I do is debugging my hubby's stuff and it's in VB. Kristta

VB ? ........... is that Vicki version "B"? Just curious. ;=]

True story- about 10 years or so ago, a trade show was showing off one of the rudimentary speech to text command driven package. Among the crowd, someone yelled out 'Format C: !', followed shortly by someone else yelling 'Yes!'..the commands worked just fine..;)

ROFLMAO!

Man, that's a real hazard with text commands. At least until they develop Star Trek-like computers that can recognize their owner's voices and ignore all the rest.

VB.......Visual Basic. Some days, it seems like Vicki Basic...or Very Boring....

pakled - I remember reading about that in a trade magazine when I worked in IT Support. Yep folks, it really did happen.

raises hands... Now all the archived pz3's are on a stack of dvd-r's Thank god for dvd burners

Ayup, I've got some unfinished projects, too. I think I've got some that are 2-3 years old. And there's still some ideas for projects that I haven't started yet. Sometimes something becomes available (freebie or store product) that inspires me to finish a project. I copied my poser files to another computer 3 weeks ago when I re-installed XP on my game/poser computer. Eventually I'll do a backup on DVD's.

This is what you need for those unformattable CDs. ;)

OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH I would love to have one of those. he he he I wonder what all you can shred with one of those! Kristta