You need a garage runtime sales......

I only back up my 3D content on DVDs, CDs, and external drives, so I don't use the on-board back-up feature. 

decided to just have a look out of interest to see how big mine was.... this is my runtimes plus the usual readme and stuff but 67 gig ... mmm wondered where all my hard drive space was going ... lol

I probably should do a backup, but there's the fact that it would take so freakin' long to do it.

I've decided to buy myself a 320gig external hard drive this weekend ... backup all my zips, exe's and whatevers to that and reformat my hard drive.... which means poser will get a nice fresh install ... then hopefully I can get that 67 gig down to something more sensible because I know I never use 2 thirds of what I have on here Sheila

hmmm...156 CD's, 650 meg each (scrap that, average 500), take out non-Poser stuff (down to 250 meg each), that's uh...carry the nine...chismbop!..;)  hm...wish there was a comma in Calc..;)

say 39 gig...'bout average? I have a 'holding' directory with 1.5 gig of stuff I plan to install..;) thought I was over the top..;)

Kayjay97 you no good rotten show off.  Man almost a hundred gigs.  I bow before your greatness.  I am now worthy.

LOL, now ask me how much I actually use ROFL!

Now wait a cotton-pickin' minute, kayjay97.  That's your Curious Labs install folder.  That could be four or five versions of Poser installed with duplicate Runtimes - Runtimes!!!

Show us the size of ONE of your Runtime folders - the biggest of course.  Then we can continue with the phizzing contest. ;)

Here ya go

hi all,

I'm just a minor, facing 20 Gb. But my question (in he other thread, just opened) is ... how to get and stay well organised. You all must have an opinion on that, I guess. Please use the other thread to prevent goint OT.

thanks, see you there,
aRtBee 

Okay, kayjay97.  All is forgiven. :)

Even all of my Curious Labs folder (Poser 4/PP/5/6) is only about 30GB - but 4 and PP are mainly bare Runtimes.  Of course, at least half of my downloaded/purchased content is not installed.

Ok, mine is under 4 gigs. Just one question, How do you find texture files that didn’t load? I have spent up to 10 minutes trying to find them in 4 gigs.

90 gigs almost a half million files? Must be fun: :)

Dale

Usually when Poser can't find the (a) texture, it isn't there.  This could be because there really is no texture file, because the filename/extension is incorrect, or because it is in another Runtime that has not been included in the Library.

For the first, nothing to be done.

For the last, you must include the Runtime.

For the other, this is a shortcoming of Poser.  They really should either make the image type ubiquitous (it differs on Windows and MacOS for instance) and/or ask to search for alternative image extensions.  'eh hem' - interPoser Pro will do this.  It will search for JPG, PNG, TIF, BUM, GIF, BMP on image files that weren't found if the user desires it.

All that said, there is something called CorrectReference that will fix image and geometry references in Poser content.  I'd suggest getting and using this to relieve your image requester woes.

oohh :P mines only about 11 + gigs:) out of 200! need to get more stuff for poser lol

I probably should do a backup, but there's the fact that it would take so freakin' long to do it.

I don't know about Windows' backup (I'd guess it sucks), but it doesn't have to take too long if you have a DVD burner.

Get burnatonce and ImgBurn (both freeware).  Each DVD-5 holds 4.3 gigs and takes 1/2 hour max (and half of that will be burnatonce writing the ISO to hard disk, so you can work during that time).  The big thing is getting the whole mess ready to make into an ISO in the first place.  I use WinRAR.  You can let that run overnight (breaking the whole mess into smaller chunks, each 4.3 gigs max), then create the ISOs and burn them to disc at your leisure.

Thing is you'd need extra disk space equal to your runtime's size, plus 5 gigs or so.

Most of the times when I lose a texture file, it's my fault. I take the original and modify it and rename it.  Then a day later I want the original back or have deleted the modified one. Then it's fun time because it might be a Daz product, but the original texture is under the artist name.

Dale

I have a texture backup folder. I keep the main textures there if I modify them. This way I just switch from original to modified depending on my needs.

As for runtimes, about 50Gb. I am in the middle of burning them all on DVD's to work on my PC. So I can't show the real numbers.

Some of those big file are Cr2's to be able to work with MorphManager and other apps that don't read Crz's. You would be surprised at how much space you would save convering the Cr2 to Crz.

mine expands when I unzip it

Oh yes. I had a 70 gig runtime until I learned about external runtimes.

Eh, if I had the money to spare, I'm sure my runtime size would be closer to 80 gig than it is now. Even with my combined P5 and P6 runtimes only being about 5 gig.

Edit: And having deleted all the unnecessary .rsr files from the libraries helps cut down the size to.

Quote - I probably should do a backup, but there's the fact that it would take so freakin' long to do it.

I don't know about Windows' backup (I'd guess it sucks), but it doesn't have to take too long if you have a DVD burner.

Get burnatonce and ImgBurn (both freeware).  Each DVD-5 holds 4.3 gigs and takes 1/2 hour max (and half of that will be burnatonce writing the ISO to hard disk, so you can work during that time).  The big thing is getting the whole mess ready to make into an ISO in the first place.  I use WinRAR.  You can let that run overnight (breaking the whole mess into smaller chunks, each 4.3 gigs max), then create the ISOs and burn them to disc at your leisure.

Thing is you'd need extra disk space equal to your runtime's size, plus 5 gigs or so.

Yeah, that's still a lot of work, more than if I just burned the runtimes as is to a disc with Nero.

It also hurts that at the moment, I don't have any available discs with a higher speed that 4x, doesn't help having a 42x DVD burner if the disc limits it to 4x.

I think it's more an issue of whether I should backup each time I add something to a runtime folder, or what. It bothers me, so I tend to ignore it (hell, I just finished created a second set of disks with all the zips and exe's I've downloaded, so losing my F drive (where all the runtimes sit) wouldn't be a complete disaster.

Gary
WOW you got me beat.  I only have 27 Gigs going in my runtime folder right now.   You da man!!
Adrian

Quote - mine expands when I unzip it

Ya know.  I'm not going to touch that with a 10" pole!  lol. ;)

Quote - > Quote - mine expands when I unzip it

Ya know.  I'm not going to touch that with a 10" pole!  lol. ;)

i was wondering if anyone would notice that :) LOL

The total space on my hard drive is 18 GB, so no I cannot beat that.

Note: this is Daz|Studio rather than Poser, but there's a lesson here.

The latest pic I have of mine is from September.

But I've started to install everything P6 specific directly into my P6 runtime, so this isn't the FULL picture anymore. Still. last I looked, my P6 runtime was well below 10Gb, so it's still a baby LOL

LOL

I guess I just buy to little stuff!, and I'm member since 2000!

Dont' get me wrong I reformatted my pc so many times and ended up installing only what I actually use

This is sick, heh,heh. I think i'll stick with drawing people only.     :)

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