I have decided to run my P6 with multiple (lots) of seperate runtime folders. Other than initially adding the runtimes in alphabetical order... is there any way to arrange folders alphabetically from within the P6 system files. For example: if I started out with runtimes A.. B.. D then later added C, they would be arranged as A.. B.. D.. C. Is there a way to rearrange them without deleting D adding C and then reloading D from within P6 itself..?

. (bookmarked because I'm also interested in the answer)

open your
c:...poser6RuntimeprefsLibraryPrefs.xml

in a text editor...preferably wordpad (assuming your using windows)

and reorder (highlight drag and drop or cut and paste) your

<ContentFolder folder="...several lines of stuff...

into the order you want them to appear.

Tyger Purr: Many thanx... that's just the sort of solution I was looking for :-)

Ah...very cool! I'd been wondering that myself. Thanks!

Mucho thanks, Tyger_purr.

Tyger purr: tried as you suggested (with word pad) but P6 kept putting them into the original order. I found that I had to change the index number to correspond to its 'wanted' position in the list. Then it works. Does that make sense..?

hummm, i didnt change the index number but it worked for me. (tried it before i posted)

question: did you have poser running when you first edited the xml? Poser rewrites various xmls when it exits.

Message edited on: 05/12/2005 14:30

No I loaded some new runtimes.. exited poser then edited the xml file.

My experience has been that Poser doesn't use the index numbers, it just uses the order the Runtimes appear in the file.

Doh... my bad :-( I hadn't altered the index number after all. Yep.. Tyger purrs first advice was quite correct. Got it right now :-) thanx all

I never keep all my seperate runtimes in P5 or P6, just add them as I need them and kick them out when I close Poser. Am I the only one doing that?

Am I the only one doing that? I dont - mine. i switch between the too oftne to try to hunt them down every time i need something. I guess it could work if you had your runtimes set up with enought stuff that you didnt have to switch often.

Puntomaus: that's what I plan on doing once I have all my runtime folders sorted. I shall just leave my most frequently used and current need runtimes in P6. The only other thing I am doing, is exiting and starting up in a virtually empty runtime which seems to make start time a bit quicker. But... it would be nice if someone could come up with a Python script to sort the Runtime folders into alphabetical order to save doing it manually as above.