Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Question about Poserworld experiences

ptrope opened this issue on Jul 21, 2005 ยท 37 posts


elizabyte posted Thu, 21 July 2005 at 9:53 PM

Poserworld has been around a very long time. Many of their items are quite old, much older than the convention of zipping things with the paths (possibly, WinZip didn't have that option five years ago, I dunno). They have been going through their older materials and re-zipping them so they unzip properly, but that does take time. I also agree with those who have said that it's never a good idea to unzip things directly to your Poser directory. I always, ALWAYS unzip EVERYTHING to a temporary directory first, run CorrectReference on it, change any folder names (I have my own system of organizing stuff), etc., and only then do I move it to my actual Poser runtime(s). Yes, it IS frustrating to unzip something expecting it to behave a certain way, no question about it, and when I first discovered that the older PW files weren't zipped with directories, I was dismayed, BUT it's only the older files and they are working on fixing them all (there are only so many hours in a day ;-), and the overall quality and value is excellent, so I figure I can take the extra couple of minutes to unzip to a temp directory and manually move the files to where they ought to go (and the paths are always listed in the readme, so I don't have to guess). bonni

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