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Subject: Running Poser from an external hard drive

MartinW opened this issue on Apr 18, 2006 · 8 posts
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MartinW ( ) posted Tue, 18 April 2006 at 8:52 AM · edited Fri, 22 November 2024 at 10:36 PM

Anyone know if it is possible to run Poser from an external hard drive?

I get the free time to run my renders when I'm at university, but don't want to have to keep lugging my laptop in to do it on. The network is some quite well specced PCs, so if this can be done then it will save my shoulder...

TIA for and advice on this one - Martin

Syltermermaid ( ) posted Tue, 18 April 2006 at 10:29 AM

It is Martin,

all my character I made on a Laptop with 20GB and poser on an external harddrive with 80GB. I had never a problem!!!! You should have ask yesterday!!!LOL

Hugs Ute

modus0 ( ) posted Tue, 18 April 2006 at 2:54 PM

Yes you can.

Before I got my current desktop, I was using a laptop with a 40GB HD, and had Poser 5 (and all it's content) installed on a 60GB external drive.

I would suggest trying to get a drive with a USB 2.0 connection, otherwise it's going to be slow switching between libraries and runtimes (if you use multiple runtimes).

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Neyjour ( ) posted Tue, 18 April 2006 at 2:55 PM · edited Tue, 18 April 2006 at 2:56 PM

Ditto.  😄  I run P6 from an external and have never had a problem.

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PhilC ( ) posted Tue, 18 April 2006 at 3:23 PM

Its the "My Options" link at the head of this page. Took me a while to find it, I was looking in the members prefs on the old pages.

Huolong ( ) posted Tue, 18 April 2006 at 3:56 PM

I have installed Poser 6 on an internal drive and use a Poser 5 runtime (>100 GB) on an external drive with no problems

Gordon

texboy ( ) posted Wed, 19 April 2006 at 1:24 PM

Same here; my little old Mac G4 only has a 25 GB hard drive, so I've got Posers 4, 5, and 6 on a La Cie Firewire 120 GB drive (or at least the runtimes for 4 and 5). No problemo whatsoever.

Miss Nancy ( ) posted Wed, 19 April 2006 at 1:42 PM

there was once a rumour that it was actually safer to run P5/6 on an external drive (OS X) to prevent systems file corruption on the main drive, but the experts tended to doubt that this was the case.


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