Hello friends

I have a mewbie question; I installed a lot of content to Poser and is it possible to back up (copy / paste) Runtime folder of Poser before formatting my hard drive and paste it back after I installed my softwares ? Anyone tried it and was the Poser worked properely ?

Thanks in advance...

K.

Yes, you can do that. Most Poser users do.

*Just use a Backup-Tool as if you would backup your System/Harddrive!
Backup to a mobile Harddrive, a second Harddrive or DVDs....

After you formated, be sure to have the same Folderpath for the Runtime as before.
Then restore your created Backup.
Most every Backupsoftware knows how to do that.
I personally use NOVA-Backup, and after an Exident i fortunately HAD such Backup of my Runtime.
It then was restored in an hour (depending how big your Runtime is).
I don`t had to sit in front of my Machine. Its an automated Process.

Thats my way to do.... what you asked for.
Hope this helps...
Ray*

Yep. Zip/compress it if at all possible to save space (WinRAR will get past the size limitations that proggies like WinZip run up against). Since nearly every file that isn't under Textures is in an ASCII format, you can get some really decent compression rates. /P

It's important to not back-up the whole runtime if you plan to copy it back over a new install.  There are folders under runtime you don't want to corrupt the new install, like prefs, Plugins, etc.

Back-up your Geometries, libraries, and textures.  Also probably the Reflection Maps.  That should cover all the content you want to protect.

John

What i do is backup the whole poser folder, then just copy it back over, you just need to enter your serial number and your good to go.......Steve