Just drag and drop the runtime folder from P7 into the Poser Pro directory, right?  I treid that and it wouldn't recognize hallf the collection files.

 Easier way. I assume you know how to add a runtime. Just add your P7 runtime to your PPro runtines. That is what I did and it works like a champ.

Granted I have all my morphs, geometries and textures in the main base runtime (now PPro). I did copy those from P7 to PPro. Being on a mac all my external runtimes have symlinked directories of my PPro geometries and textures out in them. Not sure if this helps PPro find things faster or not, but it is needed to work with WW2 as the obj file has to be in the same runtime as the cr2 of the source item you want to convert. The symlinked folders tricks WW2 into thinking they are there, when they are really not.

As I understand it, Collections contain references or links to the actual content files in the Runtime library. If you move the library to another location, you break the links. The Collections links themselves are stored in the main Poser Runtime/Libraries/Collections folder.

The only thing that bothers me about this explanation is that word "half" - I would expect none of them to work!

It's only a shortcut and a pic. Don't understand why it would be  a problem.
I spent days getting my collections in just teh orde ri want, and don't really want to have to go through that again.

Yes, but those shortcuts are pointing to a specific location. If you have changed where the content files are, the shortcuts are now pointing to the wrong place.

Never thought about that. They're pointing to the Poser 7 folder, not the Poser Pro folder.
Duh
 
Thanks

You're welcome! grichter's idea seems good - just leave your Poser 7 Runtime where it is and add it as a Poser Pro Library. Then the Collections links should still work okay.

(edit) oops, but then the Collection links themselves will not be in the right place. You'll have to move those into the Poser Pro Runtime/Libraries/Collections.

Got it.  What I had to do was leave everything in the P7 folder and replace the PP collections folder with a copy of the P7 collections folder.

Sounds like you sorted it out. Just so you know, though, it is potentially deadly to copy an old main runtime into a new version of Poser.

Of course your "content" should/might move over just fine, but what about your Poser "system" resources. Not everything in your runtime is poses and figures and such. Some of it is central to the application's correct functioning.

For example, the Runtime:ui folder contains all the visual assets that form the Poser user interface - images, dialog box layouts, etc. If you copy those onto a new version of Poser, you will break it. You will be removing newer objects by using older files that don't have all the new stuff in them.

So, the next time you hear somebody thinking about copying a main runtime from one version of Poser to another, STOP THEM before they hurt themselves and have to do a complete re-install.

Duly noted