HISTORY: Over the past couple of days I have downloaded about 70 characters, morph packages and props to help with an animation project, and I unzipped all of them onto an external hard drive (intentionally) rather than to the Poser program folder. Now I have 70 different runtimes waiting for an organized home, so using the Library in P6 to add a runtime for each seems silly (70+ runtimes at the top level?). FYI, I am Mac-based. PROBLEM: The original .sit packages are gone, so unzipping again them "into" a more structured runtime is not an option, and placing the individual .cr2, etc. files into folders by hand is too tedious to comtemplate. POOR ALTERNATIVES: Simply downloading them again via Content Manager is also not a good option for a variety of reasons, but especially for Mac users like me, because Content Manager uses Inernet Explorer as its default browser, a browser that is way out of date for Mac users since it functions under and old operating system. WHAT I NEED: Ideally, I want a shareable runtime(s) on my external drive and Library that is well organized. I want to take advantage of P6's ability to have a runtime on an external drive because I move my files back and forth between hulking G5 desktop computers at my home and my office. I've succeeded in accessing the drive and sample the Poser content via each home/office computer, but I'm still struggling to organize my content and my Library AND, most importantly, not having to either hand-place each content file (there are over 5,000!). Gettin' frustrated here. There's gotta be a way! Any ideas?

I just discovered a FAQ on e-Frontier's site that basically says that Mac users are out of luck when it comes to having a simple means of loading unzipped, unorganized files into a new Runtime. "Tedious" was the word the author used to describe the process -- moving each file, one by one, into the appropriate subfolders -- and I can certainly vouch for that. SS

I do not have a MAC, so I can't directly help... But couldn't you search all cr2 files in subfolders and then move them in the correct folder ?

Seventy items isn't bad. Should take you an afternoon to manually move them all. Um...when you say "70 runtimes," I assume you mean that most of the items unzipped or otherwise unarchived as a file directory ending in "Runtime," right? And on a Mac, that would be "Runtime_1," "Runtime_2," "Runtime_3," right? Well, if you still have access to Classic mode (boo, Intel chips!) Martin C's "MacInstaller" -- freeware available at http://www.soft-rabbit.com/ -- will automate it for you. With MacInstaller you can drag and drop the entire directory, and install it into the new directory of your choice.

It sounds as if you've screwed yourself. Why did you put them all in separate runtimes? 70 of them? I mean ...

Phantast....you are not familiar with the Mac's file system here. Mac will replace a same-named directory; it will not interleave new content. Annoying at times, useful at others. In any case, since the vast majority of Poser content is archived as a Runtime directory, whereas the PC user will find it unfolds into the Runtime of their choice, the Mac user will end up creating a duplicate Runtime...with a superscript to identify it as a duplicate. So, at worst case, the Mac user is in same place as a PC user wanting to organize their content into multiple Runtimes; open windows for all of them, and drag folders and files across. But if the Mac user can still use Classic aps -- or boot into OS 9 -- Martin C's lovely little pieces of shareware will do to an identically-named directory just what the PC user who packed the Poser content expected; put files into identical folders preserving the overall structure.

True, I'm not. Sounds very confusing.

Thanks, nomuse. I have been moving the files one by one. I've also discovered I have more than 70 new runtimes -- that's in addition to what I already had in Poser 5 and 6. It's a pain, but it has the advantage of allowing me to personalize my file tree a bit more than I might have otherwise. Nevertheless, that shareware app sounds really great, and I'll give it a try. I'm using a G5 dual, so I can still run Classic apps. Macs are truly superior graphics machines (all four of my art-and-music-loving kids have dumped their PCs for Macs), but e-Frontier has been a wee small step behind on matching its Mac version of Poser to its PC version. That said, they've told me that they're working on a universal (Intel-processor optimized) version of Poser for Mac that will really smoke when it comes out, presumably in Version 7. Now if they could just add passive, multiple levels of "undo" I'd be fine. Incidentally, in my solution search I ran across a cross-platform app for tailoring conforming clothes to morphed or different characters that works wonderfully for Mac versions of Poser: Wardrobe Wizard by PhilC. SS