My knowledge of Poser above version 6 is non existent and my knowledge of Macs is limited to using Mac Paint back in the 80's but...

When it comes to installing content, it's really easy to get yourself in a knot if you don't keep track of what you're doing.

The best way I found is to extract everything into a dummy Runtime then drag the whole shebang over to your real Runtime.  Things like Readme files can go anywhere but I keep them all in the main folder above Runtime.  The rest of the stuff gets shoved in my Runtime folder, then I tidy it up from there.

Some people here use multiple Runtimes.  I - and several others - believe this is an unnecessary complication which can lead to all kinds of faffing about when you're using Poser.  I have a single, huge Runtime, which takes ages to load but once it's there, it's there.  The wait time on startup is more than made up for by the time gained in not switching from one Runtime to the next ad nauseum.  In any event, you pick the way you want to work.

Anyhow, within my Runtime, I use sub folders within the main categories, so in Character, I have Animals, Clothes, Hair, People, Scenery, Vehicles, Weapons.  Within each of these I have sub categories; for instance, my People folder is further divided into Custom figures, Daz, Toons, SF, and ZZPoser.  The ZZPoser contains all the native Poser stuff, which I hardly use.  The ZZ prefix keeps it at the bottom of the list.

All my other main folders are divided up in similar ways.  The one folder I take particular care of is Pose.  The DAZ INJ/REM poses are in the root of Pose.  Some folks have been able to move them from this location without trouble.  I never have, so there they remain.  In order to keep things in a usable state, I created another folder called !!!!Poses (the !!!! puts it at the top of the list) and all the other pose stuff goes in there.  Again, it's divided into Animals, Clothes, Hair, etc.

All of which means I need to do a lot of moving stuff around in order to keep things ship shape.  The upside is, I pretty much know where to find anything without scrambling through miles and miles of stuff.

Final thing:

As a relative newbie, I strongly recommend you read the Readme files which come with your products.  You'll get a better idea of file structure and Poser's idiosyncrasies.  When you get more experienced, you can do like the rest of us and ignore them completely.  ;)

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