Quote - As you all know a few months ago I was having some major computer issues. So I hurried and backed up all of my runtimes to CDs....lots and lots of CDs.

Some of my runtimes are many gigs large so in order for me to get them onto CDs I had to break them up into pieces and zip up parts of it, especially the Pose and Texture folders.

I started off doing one zip at a time with Winzip and it was sooooo tedious and I was afraid my computer was going to breakdown before I finished. So I decided to use "Batchzip Toolkit" to do it. I had never used it to zip up whole folders before, only single files and it worked really well the times I had used it.

I got my new computer and unzipped my runtimes and haven't really done a whole lot in Poser since then.

Today I go into Poser and Poser tells me that it's looking for file after file after file after file!

I nosed around in that runtime and found that none of the folder structures in the pose folder or the texture folder were kept!  Some structures are gone completely and all the files are in one folder.  Others have the structure maintained, but there is  a top layer of files not inside the folders which seems to be all of the files that are also in the sub folders.  And there are folders missing completely     It's such a mess .

Batchzip zips, but it doesn't maintain the file structure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So now I have to redo most of my runtimes.....all of the freaking large ones that I had to zip up to save!  

So beware.  Shortcuts create more work !

I'm sorry you had to learn the hard way, on such a huge project.

I don't use backup software, I just burn stuff to disc, so my method might be behind the times, but here it is:

1. Compress files with winrar.
2. Test compressed files with winrar.
3. Create image file (ISO) with burnatonce.
4. Mount image file with daemon tools and test compressed files with winrar again.
5. Burn DVD.
   5a) (optional: use DVD testing app (couple of free programs available) to test burn quality)
6. Load DVD into drive and test with winrar yet again.
7. Extract all data to hard drive and test it (how to test depends on data - for poser this means a new install of poser, and the extracted files/runtimes placed where needed).

Obviously this is only for huge or very important backups, like what you were doing.  It takes a lot of extra time but it's worth it, because errors can creep in at any stage.

Btw, you should buy a DVD burner.  Blank DVD discs cost roughly the same as blank CD discs, but hold about six times as much data.  Easier to keep store and keep track of one DVD than six CDs.  DVD burners, even combo CD/DVD burners, aren't expensive (30-40 bucks, maybe less).