hi poser people, i got poser on my computer but just a tiny harddrive all wont fit on it but i got a big external hard drive could i run poser off that external somehow ?? i already got all my library on that external.... thankfull for any help .

yes. just install as normal.

oh install to external ?? i installed to c: so normal hard drive and was trying to get it to run that way just pointing it somehow to my external but couldnt figure that out lol... thanks for the help

If you have room on your C: drive you can run it from there. Then you can attach to your Library (Runtime) on your external drive. Shout if you need guidance on how to do that.

You don't have to re-install Poser itself on the external drive, unless you really are low on space and want to reclaim some.

Silly me, that's what you were asking about in the first place... innit?

On your Library palette in Poser, go the top folder level, where it shows your different Runtimes, click the + button down the bottom, and then select the PARENT folder of your Runtime folder on your external drive.

You will need to have that drive connected whenever you open a scene containing things from that Runtime, of course.

sorry I thought you meant can I run poser off the external..

Khai.. no, it was me who misread the question, not you!!

shadowangel, just ignore me, I'm going back to sleep now.

I don't understand the problem. Just move your Poser installation to your external HD and thats it. The only thing, if you don't edit the LibraryPrefs.xml it may be that you have to direct  to the external Runtimes again, if you have any.

hihih thanks people i will check out my libraries this evening to see if i can redireckt it. but will give a holler if i cant figure it out lol..

ok i got poser prog itself on my harddrive in the computer its just too small and i tried to figure out how to get my libraries off of a portable harddrive. i already tried to install poser direckt to my external but it wont start up for me there but 55 gb library is on the external.

So... Poser is running from your main HD, and your library is on your external HD?

And you need to know how to access your library in Poser?

If I understand the question right, please look at my second post in this thread for the answer... or if it's not clear, I can try to explain again.

:O)
Izi

**ja you understood right lol, but if i go to my librarys folder while running poser all i see is the figures and poses and hair and props i dont know how to get higher than that folder hmmmm there is no + to add anything in that area unless i klick on figures or so... lol this is really hard
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Now click the + button down the bottom, and select your library on the external drive.

Make sure to select the PARENT folder of the new Runtime folder. The name of this parent folder will be the name of your new Library in Poser.

mmm jaaa super i made it hihiih waiting so far 5 min for v4 to load but will happen sometimes maybe a restart, but at least i got it this far hihihihih... huggles

5 minutes for V4 to load? Wow, you must have the patience of a... ummm... a very patient person.

Huggles I like, anytime!
Izi

that was i gave up trying to load v4 from the external harddrive after 5 mins, tried it later and let it try 30 mins its there now just wont load but clothes and so do load hmmm lol

There is something in the V4 Readme file that says it has to be installed in the main Poser runtime. I'm not sure why, since I have never had any problems using it from another runtime - but I am on a Mac, so maybe it's different.

Maybe this is causing the problem with V4 not loading. You could try installing Poser itself on the external drive, and put V4 in the main runtime, and see if it loads okay from there. Sorry, I'm not really much help!

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I'm running my whole Poser 7 from an external HD without any probs. With V4 you should install the !DAZ folder in your main runtime, means: "e frontier/poser 7/Runtime/Libraries/!DAZ" but thats the problem with all the files in this directory. Poser 7 will find them even in an other runtime but this will take some time.