Hi all again,

I just got a newer, faster, sexier laptop only to find myself horribly frustrated in that I have not been able to download files to Runtime as I used to on my old machine.

To make a long story longer, I would normally download the files from Renderosity, my Winzip would automatically pop up, I would choose the main Poser folder if there was a runtime in the download, and Winzip would automatically insert all the files in the appropriate runtime library folders.

Now, however, although I downloaded Winzip, I get an error message saying "not authorized" when I want to unzip the downloaded runtime folder into the main Poser runtime folder.

This is a new computer Windows 7. I tried fiddling around with anti-virus with no luck.

Perplexed....any suggestions about downloading Renderosity content and having all the files go to their correct and appropriate runtime designations?

Thanks!

pacanne

you'll either have to turn off security or copy the files manually. It's a pain but ....

Keep your runtimes outside Program Files.

Good idea bill, beats the hell out of finding that darn hidden folder every damn time. LOL

Thanks guys,

I had tried initially disabling Microsoft security but the same damn error message kept popping up. Bill, what is that about keeping your files outside of Program folders? Maybe I am just not familiar enough with the security system--I turned off Windows firewall and that didn't seem to make a difference. Any other recommended tinkering?

do it Bagginsbill's way. just create a folder in your work folder outside your program folder, off the root folder, and put your runtime in there and point poser to it.

I admit I am a neophyte, how do I "point" the runtime folder to Poser if it in another location?

I am still perplexed by the fact that with my dinosaur Windows XP I had absolutely no problem with this, and now with Win 7 I just can't. Doesn't seem right.

Hmm looking for what I am seeing on the screenshot you sent. I have Poser 7 not 8, so I hope I would have the same capability in the one I have....

oh yeah, it might look a little different. Lemme load up poser 7 and look.

Hmm thought that was for if you wanted to add a specific figure or pose to your library, but to have the program access a differet location for all the runtime folders? Thanks again!

It is if you are in a subfolder. I think. It's late. LOL

Ok, thanks for all your help. I'll check back tomorrow!

Acadia has a tut on how to set up external runtimes ... you can search for her ... or PM me here and I'll send you instructions. 

I have P6, P7, P8 and PoserPro 2010 and we've been able to use externals since Poser 5, which is wonderful.  It cuts down the loading time a bunch when you don't have everything in the main runtime folder.

Thanks for the advice. I though am just wondering why I need to do the external runtime since in XP the Winrar archived the files to their correct locations. I would open Winrar, then make sure that I was extracting the downloaded runtime folder to the general Poser folder, that way the downloaded folder would "overwrite" the Poser folder. It somehow managed to place all the downloaded folders in their correct libraries, etc. Here it is telling me "access is denied" when I try to rewrite. It is all confusing. I could do it all manually but it seems like a pain. Thanks for all your help!

windows 7 has much stricter security. won't allow non administrator writes to protected areas.

If you contact Support and then Sitemail me your incident number, I can help you out with a couple of examples of items you have and that should help you have a better understanding of what you need to do for future content.