I'm sure that tutorial was written with the best of intentions,but I believe that it was not created by a Mac user.Perhaps written by someone more comfortable in dos

for it suggests an assumed complication with anything foreign to one's own understanding

and reflects an insulation into Poser 1, 2, 3, 4, or Poser pro, running in an out dated operating system (OS 7 to OS 9.2)

not used by the majority of Mac users since 1999 when the largest hard drives available were 12 gigs or so.

In addition, since Mac started using intel prosessors in 2005 with their G5 machines running Leopard (OSX 10.5), you can no longer run "classic" Mac applications like Poser 4.

 

In any event.

 

Installing Poser Runtime content is very simple on a Mac running OSX

But you still have to be careful because most content was written by Windows users

with even some of DAZ3D's installers at times installing the wrong folder or forgetting the png images.  

 

To install zipped files into Poser 5 and above without doing it by hand

you need a installer utility

 

I use RSRConv:

http://braintrigger.com/software/RSRConv/

but I read you could use:

dittoGUI

http://web.mac.com/ilikecomputing/SoftwareDev/Downloads/Entries/2006/3/14_dittoGUI.html

And I'm sure there is more out there, or there's Phil's python script for installing content while running Poser 6 and above

So, here is a simpler explaining on how to install zipped files into a Poser runtime folder.

1} Install your installer utility into your applications folder.

2. drag and drop that installer's icon onto your Dock to create a constantly available alias for that application.

3. download a zip file and unzip it by double clicking on it (BOMArchiveHelper is the default unzip application in OSX).

4. look inside this newly created folder to see what you have downloaded (png or rsr files or both)

5. drag and drop this new folder onto the alias of your installer program on you Dock. This will launch that installer

6. with RSRConv as your installer, it opens up and asked you if you want to convert, merge, or both. Hit "both" if you are unsure. It with then let you navigate to what ever runtime folder you wish to install your new content into. This selected runtime folder will also be the default folder for the next time you use RSRConv to install content.

7. That's it. you can do this while you are running Poser and the new content will show up in you Poser library, but that's not recommended.

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Mac has a very user friendly operating system. You load a CD, a DVD, a floppy disk, Zip Disk, etc..., it shows up on your desktop as just another harddrive and you can see what's in it. You don't need to go hunting with an application to see the content of that disk. I would also say most Mac users run or can run VitualPC or other Window shells to run Windows just in case you you need to install a poser exe file created by those that insist that their products are only for Windows users.