I'd like to dump the P4, P5 and P6 figures for one. Their geometries and textures. Then everything P4 (props, etc) All the P5 clothing and figure props. Do I need default James for the 1st open? Any other suggestions welcome I hope for a fast as spit load and function. All Runtimes will be on a separate partition. Doing the defrag 1st. Reason for all this is, I'm now at 6min. 45seconds to open P6.

If you delete the james figure that loads when poser starts and in the preferences click on set prefered state and use preferred state, then no figure will load when you start up poser and it will start slightly faster.

xantor, thanks I mean to delete James's geometry and textures...Along with all the P4,5 and 6's. Just wondering if I need James to default on loading p6 for the 1st time.

It would probably be better to leave the james figure there for the first time.

Ive just recently started on the Internet and Poser 6 now takes 80 seconds to load instead of about 10 sec previously.

By looking in Task Manager to see what else was taking up the processor time I found that it was the anti virus prog which checks all files as they are opened.

Message edited on: 08/27/2005 13:48

Just finished a 4 hour defrag! Poserfiles and Zips being the biggest culprits. Deleted or shifted most to another partition. P6 opens in seconds, now. Nowthen,,, what else can I strip out? Did the custom install. This is queer (attached). I emptied everything manually and still get memories of old install...P6(1&2). Used unistall 1st. Rebooted too. Anyway, I really hate doing this stuff. I'm no mechanic.

To make it start faster you can remove some of the stuff from the plugins drawer, you can put the ones you dont want in a seperate drawer, just in case you want to use them again later. The 3dmf dxf and the text ones can all be safely removed, you probably wouldnt use these, anyway. You can remove the vrml one, too, if you don`t export or import vrml.

Thanks, xantor I chickened out on the 3dmf, etc I did finally link to another partition. A fake (Poser 5) file I made up. Was worried obout the .dills, etc but all works. Took a loooong time to connect as it was a fat file. No longer in P6, though...

I dumped a ton of stuff out of the Runtime and (since linked) have gone from a 10 second load to 4min. 45 seconds. Is this normal? Is it the saved characters or saved skins in the matroom? Out of answers. Maybe 30 gigs, tops in all.

Poser starts the runtime it was in when it last exited. So if you exited Poser when it was in a full runtime, the next startup will take quite some time. You can set libraryprefs.xml to readonly (after exiting Poser from an empty runtime). Then Poser will always start in the empty runtime - but you won't be able to add new runtimes.

I will study that, Steve At least for now, it's running clean