The Bob:

I copied the entire subdirectory over simply because I had no way of knowing exactly what the uninstall was going to remove. I wanted to be able to replace any missing files if necessary.

I used E: simply because that is my next hard drive. For you, it may be D: The point was to copy it to another hard drive connected to my system so I'd have the fastest copying times for the large amount of data involved.

Post Op, it appears that just copying the runtime folder back and forth will be sufficient, but I would still recommend copying everything since it gives you protection in case P7 causes you problems and you have to re-install P6. Remember, you are removing ALL the relevant P6 files when you do the uninstall.

Peterk2004:

When you add the new runtime, you must drill down all the way to the runtime folder. You cannot just stop at the DAZ, Poser X, etc. subdirectory level. 
Also, it is usually a bad idea to move or change any directory structures manually as you've done because some content uses absolute paths, not relative paths. This means that if you change the path, things get wonky. Better to use the installers and let them put things where they want and then always leave it there. That is exactly why I went through the above method. This got rid of my previous installs but kept all of my content in the same path locations. 
There should be no problems with Poser using DAZ content as people do it all the time.

HTH

 
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