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I HAVE an external drive, and keep all my downloads backed up on it, as well as an identical copy of Poser that I install to at the same time I install to my working copy, just in case! I could never hope to re-install all the content I have now! And my poser runtime itself is TOO BIG for back up to a DVD (even if I had a burner) or to back up as a whole thing...

Once I install, then I burn my downloads to CD's... so in all that, I keep my poser content "safe" but GEE WHIZ, this addiction is out of hand! I am sure I will feel better once I get all installed... and ONCE AGAIN, promise myself  "I will install as I download" and not wait.... oooooo I hope I do!!  :D

Lyne

Yeah, that's about right.  In truth, I don't have any bought stuff to install and most of the freebies I downloaded are there "just in case".  I can - sort of - find things when I need 'em .

every Poser noob should be directed to this thread  heh heh heh

I have two shopping sprees worth on DAZ waiting to be downloaded, and several purchases not installed yet...  But, I just HAD to have them!!!!
I better go download LOL

This should be one for the FAQ's ;)

None right now, but that's only because I've been on a ruthless Runtime size reduction spree. Nohing gets bought or downloaded until I get rid of something the corresponding file size.  And I have to install the same week I buy or download. 
I needed rules because at one point I had almost a gig of  free stuff in a "to be installed file" on my desktop.

Some nice vendors sell their stuff on CD's, making it unnecessary to make backups.  
For instance, just picking one at random, Vistainternetproducts.com ...  :)

Well, all my furniture is made of burned DVD''s and CD's. LOL. I load to my runtime as soon as I DL the whole order. But I don't burn them till I have enough to make a whole disk. I have just burned all my runtimes to DVD to be moved to my new computer, so even that is not a big deal if I had to reload again. I have got it down to 33.6Gb of poser runtimes.

When I started, i would DL everything, I rarely DL anything now. The odd usful script, an update. I have taken most everything that was free and non- commercial off my computer. Don't need the hassel of finding the readme"s to see if I can use it. I don't buy much anymore because I can model most of it myself. So now all the disks I burn are WIP's from start to finish. I save a lot incase I need to go back to a certain point and start from there. I also save all those Wips for proof that I did them and once you have a few things you can use early points of them for base mesh for the next project.

I'm currently on a break from Poser, yet I just finished spending some money at RDNA!  LOL

About 12G of stuff, including freebies.

Well I am enjoying the sharing...as I come back on an "installing break".... I just put in some SP3 clothes and spent an hour figuring out how to first direct P6 to the jpg for the pre-assigned bum file..then unplugging that, and putting it in displacement... test..no looked bad... needs a P4 render for texture to work....ah...hour later..got dressed lady saved in clothing folder and then poser locked up! ....and on it goes! 

Uh... woops I forgot to eat dinner!  ;)

Lyne

PS, LOL.... my store CD's... hee hee!

I install straight away - run CRPro - move to caterorized directories - then forget too use them ;)

I've got about 10GB of Zips so far backed up on DVD.
I think my plan is to organise external runtimes by character/robot/animal/other etc and then try and back these up seperatley to DVD once I know it's all correct and working with the aid of CRPro.

Also, an external hard drive might come into play too.
I also want an external Texture Library and Model Library.

Ah man I have too much that I havn't installed yet sight   And I'm still organizing my runtimes...like 6 left to go.

Oh and Lyne - -LOVE your stuff

I have bought countless items for Poser, hundreds of stuff. Lots of them I will probably never use even though I saw them as a 'NEED' at the time.
In some ways I am addicted to this art thing. I can't go a day without thinking about a new project or how I can improve my latest work. It's driving me crazy.
I have not a single backup of any of my work or downloads. I know this is madness, but maybe subconsciously I hope to lose everything so I don't have to continue with this & I can get back to my 'normal' life!

stormchaser - it's not a matter of if it will happen but when. For goodness sake clone your HD to an external drive. Please, I won't sleep until I know you've done this. Love esther

as for my uninstalled poser stuff waiting for install - too much!

Quote - stormchaser - it's not a matter of if it will happen but when. For goodness sake clone your HD to an external drive. Please, I won't sleep until I know you've done this. Love esther

Esther - Thanks for your concern, I know I'm mad to not have backups, LOL.
Like I say, maybe to lose everything would be a blessing in disguise. I'm actually in the middle of a project now & it's driving me crazy. I should be doing more important things, like looking for a new job & a new home!

too... much... to... install... faints

1 item at a size of 20mb....

I've got 20 gigs left to install! Then again, this is because my last Poser harddrive went spazzoid on me. Got a new 160gb and so far there's 6 gigs on it including P7. The only runtime that I'm bothering to reinstall fully is my own creations. All the rest is being newly reorganized! So far, 2 weeks in the making!

I have about 6 items I'd purchased last night off Runtime DNA from their Real Deal but it was too late to tackle it last night.   As a rule I try to install all content as I purchase or download it.  If I find a site with many free items I try to install them over a few days.    I think my entire collection is between 20 & 30 gigabytes currently.  I have it subdivided into different runtime libraries.  I back up all installation files and runtime libraries in case of computer meltdown.

Hmmm... Just counted me DVDs.  I have 35 Poser content DVDs.  5 are freestuff, 6 are photo sets from 3d.sk and the rest are bought content.

On both computers I have maybe 4 DVDs worth of stuff waiting to burn.

I also have 20 DVDs of PZ3s, renders and Runtime backups.

Hrmmm... let's see... 34 runtimes at a grand total of  79 Gig's worth of who knows what?

I think I'm guilty of buying things as "art" rather than a "product" which will be useful.
I admire the quailty. ...I think I have a "collectors" gene.  I have 2 external drives maxed out. ^^;;;

bB

I have about 600 items in my 'holding' (for possible install) alone. I've burned over 162 CDs, 23,000+ items, all freebies. I remember when 'gig' referred to something I'd bring my keyboards to...sigh...;)

For me, taking my axe to a gathering of others, was called a Jam. Doing the same thing and getting payed was a Gig. LOL.

I'm glad I'm not alone in my desire to collect things...

I've got a 18 GB compressed runtime. I don't want any more stuff, I've got enough! It becomes such a pain to back all of this stuff up!

I don't know. :crying:

My philosophy is:

"You can never have enough 3D content!"

Quote - My philosophy is:

"You can never have enough 3D content!"

You can only run out of hard drive space? :tongue2:

Quote - > Quote - My philosophy is:

"You can never have enough 3D content!"

You can only run out of hard drive space? :tongue2:

counts harddrive space

1.5 terrabytes online... what's this 'run out of hard drive space' you speak of?

Oh, about 6 gigs worth plus I have not yet retrieved my Poser 4 Runtime from my other laptop.

Sort of on this topic:  Anyone know of a good CD holder or cabinet, 
that has some kind of indexing?  Maybe a gadget that works like a Rolodex?  
I've been piling up CD's and DVD's at an alarming rate lately, not just backups 
but old radio shows and such.  Stacking them was fine when I had a couple 
dozen, but it's gone way beyond that point.

Have you checked K-tel or Ronco? LOL.

I was thinking the same thing, remember that album holder, can't remember what the name was. Flip the first one and they all followed at your touch.

I have yet to install the majority of eight years' worth of freebie downloads. 

Quote - Sort of on this topic:  Anyone know of a good CD holder or cabinet, 
that has some kind of indexing?  Maybe a gadget that works like a Rolodex?  
I've been piling up CD's and DVD's at an alarming rate lately, not just backups 
but old radio shows and such.  Stacking them was fine when I had a couple 
dozen, but it's gone way beyond that point.

I use theese guys... http://www.unikeep.com/Products/MediaStorage/Wallets/index.shtml
Then stack them on shelves. You can insert a paper on the outside with an index, but what I did is printed up a bunch of bookends (from one of the Poser Content purchases) and now they're stacked on my shelves like rows of miniature old-timey books.

I think I have about 50 of them...  I buy the black ones, that hold 12 CD's each, but I manage to jam closer to 20 CD's on there.
The CD's I don't care about as much, I just keep on spindles, in a drawer.

@Conniekat:   That looks absolutely ideal, esp the book-sized model.
I've got a bookshelf full of similar packages holding 6 tape cassettes,
which is just a waste of space because I don't play them any more...  So I can
just substitute CD-holders for the cassette-holders!

Hard Drives are cheap these days!  :thumbupboth:

Back before I got Poser 5, I was cleaning up my older Poser 3 Content and made this rule.

I do not buy anything if I have something I bought in the last 30 Days that I have not used in at least a Test Render.

I do not download any Free Items (other than limited offers) if I have a Free Item that I have not used in a Test Render within 90 days.

I still keep this up, but I added one more rule a couple of years ago. I no longer download any content that does not allow Commercial Renders. (or I delete them from my system after Downloading and checking the readme.) I was amazed at the number of things I got rid of just with that rule, some things I had used on a regular basis.

Hard drives too... Check this out, 500 GIG western digital for $140  
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-WDG1U5000-Essential-Drive/dp/B000EXRSVM/ref=sr_1_1/103-0191980-2366273?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1186178383&sr=8-1

...9 days till delivery....

Don't bother with Poser much if at all anymore. However, I do have DAZ|Studio working full-swing. The "Get Info" utility on my Mac shows that all my Poser crap totals about 42.98 GB, which I have split across six Runtime directories under an arch-directory I call "Poser 9". This is not counting the approximately .75 GB of (uncompressed) stuff I have yet to install (if I want to keep it), and the 6.something GB (compressed) of categorized and clearly labelled stuff that I'll only bother installing if I actually need it. OTOH, this pile of stuff goes back to 2001. For backups, I have an NFS (Network File System) share to my Linux server/modeling box, where there's a dual 300GB drive RAID1 set that stores all of my goodies (and more) w/o compression. I intend to add a pair of 500GB disks to it soon. It took roughly 22 hours to do a clean full backup of Poser Crap + everything else (via rsync), which weighed in at 120GB or so. Weekly update differential backups take about 10 minutes. (...and they wonder why I eyeball the multi-terabyte SCSI RAID Arrays @ work with unashamed lust in my eyes...) /P

Quote - Hard drives too... Check this out, 500 GIG western digital for $140  
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-WDG1U5000-Essential-Drive/dp/B000EXRSVM/ref=sr_1_1/103-0191980-2366273?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1186178383&sr=8-1

...9 days till delivery....

Umm... http://www.pricewatch.com/hard_drives/ (/me ducks and runzlakhell...)

Tomsde:  *Hard Drives are cheap these days! *

That's certainly true, but I hate messing around with the hardware internals of my computer.   Software is logic (admittedly, often logic as envisaged by people with a slightly flawed grasp of the concept), but hardware is black magic.   A huge range of ideas can be conjured up to justify the fact that a particular bit of hardware doesn't function correctly, always subtly transferring to the purchaser the onus for getting the dratted thing working (static, magnetism, a "D" in the day...).

I use external hard-drives to back up what is on my two internal drives, but the reality is that the external drives are no safer than the internal ones.   One of the externals played up recently, showing every sign of not starting properly.   It was giving a red light and a regular clicking sound.   A search of Google produced the confident prediction that it had gone very much west.   I left it switched on and attached to the computer. About three hours later, the hard drive suddenly remembered that it actually wasn't a component of Stonehenge and it connected to the computer, as though there had never been a problem.   (Mind you:  I haven't risked turning it off again since.)

In a desperate attempt to drag this post back from the outer shores of OT-ism, I can say that I install zip files pretty quickly.   It's the DAZ rigmarole that I find pointlessly time-consuming.   DAZ stuff may remain uninstalled for quite a while.

Quote - Tomsde:  *Hard Drives are cheap these days! *

That's certainly true, but I hate messing around with the hardware internals of my computer.   Software is logic (admittedly, often logic as envisaged by people with a slightly flawed grasp of the concept), but hardware is black magic.

Meh - hardware is only the shunting and gating of electrons in a logical fashion ;) /P

been installing hard drives since the 80s..;) Now doing RAID on Servers, that can get interesting, but 500g HD. I haven't filled up the 60 I have yet..;) I'm sure MS is working on an OS that needs that much space..;)