Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: I knew it was too good to be true! *cries*

Acadia opened this issue on Mar 22, 2007 · 26 posts


kuroyume0161 posted Thu, 22 March 2007 at 3:41 PM

There are two types of path (generally speaking) - absolute and relative.

Absolute paths go back to the root volume: "C:Program FilesCurious Labsetc. etc. etc."

Relative paths work off of the current directory (folder): "Runtimeslibrariespropsetc. etc. etc." - that should look familiar if you've ever gazed at a Poser file in a text editor.

WinZip always stores paths relative to the folder being zipped unless you use the 'Store Full Path', then it does a full path (not absolute, mind you) - this includes the entire folder hierarchy from the volume, but not including the volume.

When you extract, you should be sure to have "Use folder names" checked in order that the folder hierarchy is reconstructed - otherwise all of the files are just placed into the destination folder no matter the folder relationship in the zip archive.

WinZip 11 here.

So, if you see paths in WinZip - then your Poser Runtime folder hierarchy is there.  You just didn't extract it so as to recreate it.  Might still be a way out in this case.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

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