Hi everyone,

This may be a stupid question but here goes. I have Poser 6, 7, 8 & PP10, can I keep the runtimes from P6, 7 & 8 and delete everything else to save space on my hard drive? I never open P6 or 7 anymore and other than linking their runtimes to P8 and now PP10 I have no need for them. I would basicly leave the runtimes in their current location and deleate the rest of the programs. I am currently using Windows 7 in case that makes a difference. I am not against relocating the runtimes if neccesary either. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Personally...I'd relocate the runtimes and then simply uninstall the other versions of Poser.

Simply deleting the remaining Poser directories of the previous versions(after relocating runtimes) will not "Uninstall it", and could possibly cause conflicts.

I'd go one step further and download cCleaner (By Pinform) and run it's registry cleaner after uninstalling everything to get rid of any remaining registry entries.

But that's just me.

 8 )

Tom

Also...you might not re-claim much space... The Runtimes are the bulk of the Poser directories and you're keeping those.

I appreciate the response. I know that I won't save more than a few gigs of space, but I am more interested in cleaning out unused programs also, without having to reload about 100 gigs of runtime between the 3 programs. I guess I will be deleating the old library locations and once I reloacte them adding them back to PP10. Thanks for the info and I will check out that registry cleaner, I didn't think of doing that.

Glad to help.

You could also:

Move said Runtime(s) out of the old Poser directories.

Uninstall old Poser apps.

Run a registry cleaner (optional)

Then create dummy folders in the locations(Paths) that the old Poser apps used to be and name them appropriately (Poser 6, Poser,7 etc.)

Then move the runtimes back to those dummy folders.That way...You wouldn't have to change the runtime structure in PP10.

When I migrated my old runtimes to my new machine, I simply renamed them appropriately (Poser4_runtime, Poser5_runtime) and placed them along side the main runtime installed in Poser. That way...I don't have to navigate all over my drives when hunting down textures n-stuff that existed in other runtimes.

Anyway...I'm sure I've confused you enough...lol

Good luck

Tom

@Hawkfyr

I miss your old avatar.. the one that looks like you're pissing on the neighbors award-winning rose bush.. everybody gotta grow up, I guess.

I'd second on relocating the runtimes first.

LOL...you mean this one?

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Heh Heh...I may mature...but I'll never grow up.

Tom

I think I will try that idea too. That will make it easy to find things now instead of having to look through 4 different directories to find what I am looking for. You have been a real fountain of knowledge and I hope that the neighbors don't catch on as to why their roses are starting to smell funny! :lol:

Just make absolutely sure you move the runtimes before you uninstall. P6 (at least) will helpfully delete the runtime for you.

Hawkfyr, Richardson and AnAardvark, thanks for the advice I backed up my runtimes and then deleted the main programs. I created a new directory in the same location as the old program so I wouldn't have to deal with trying to locate files when I reload existing pz3 files. I then did a disk clean up and restarted my computer and everything is working great. It cleared up several icons on my desktop and I rid myself of unused programs cluttering my hard drive. I only saved about 10 gig or so after all of that but it was worth the time to do it.

..and ur welcome

You know...I never really noticed it but you are right...it does look like I'm up to some kind of shenanagans.

You know what might be a kinda cool game?

Start a thread that starts with a portion of and image...then let folks try to guess whats goin on. Then reveal a little more of the image and let the guessing continue for a while.

Then keep doing it until either someone guesses correctly or the image is completely revealed. Maybe make a rule that the image can only be extened ...say 4 times so it doesn't take forever.

Winner gets to post a new picture.

Might be kinda cool.

Tom

Oh..and glad you got your runtimes sorted out shadowhawk. Glad to help.

Tom